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GARDENER'S 



THE 



RECEIPT 



BOOK 



Containing the best Methods for Destroying all kinds of Vermin and 

 Insects injurious to the Garden, with Preventives and Cures for the 

 different Diseases of Plants, and Directions for the Preservation of 

 Trees, Fruit, Flowers, &c. &c. 



By WILLIAM JONES. 



The following are the Principal Contents of the Work: 



Aiils, to expel 



to kiU 



Apples, to keep a long time 

 Artificial coral for rock-\vork, to 



make 

 Asphalte for walks, a cheap 

 Attacks of maggots iu onion, to 



prevent 



of 1 ed spider, to prevent 



Bee, to cure the sting of a 

 Birds from seeds, to scare 

 Blaeklcad, indelible, on zinc 



labels, to make 

 Bhght, to clear roses from 



to destroy American 



British-grown tobacco, to pre- 

 pare 

 Carnations, from wire-M orm, to 



protect 



to protect from rabbits 



Caterpillars, on gooseberry trees, 



to kill 

 Cattle barking trees, to prevent 

 Cement, to fasten pieces on iron 



pipes 

 Club, in broccoli, to prevent 

 Cockroaches, a trap lor 



to poison 



Composition to heal wounds on 



roses, &c. 

 to make calico transparent 



and waterproof 

 Conservatory, of woodlice, to 



clear 

 Crickets, to poison 

 Cucumbers, to cure mildew in 

 to keep fresh a length of 



time 



-'and melon seeds, to prove 



to clean 



Cut flowers to keep a long 



time 

 Dahlias, to keep through the 



winter 

 Docks, dandelions, &c., to kill 

 Duckweed in ponds, to clear 

 Earwigs, trap for 

 Fireproof mortar, to make 



Flowers, to preserve cut 



to revive withered 



Galvanic protectors, to make 

 Garden mousetrap 

 Gold fish, to treat 

 Grafting wax, to make 

 Grass plots, to kill worms in 

 Gravel walks, to kill weeds on 

 Green paint, to make cheap 

 Green fly on plants, to destroy 

 Gumming, in fruit-trees, to cui-e 

 Herbarium, to dry plants for 

 Honey from bees, without de- 

 stroying them, to take 

 Hot-water pipes, to joint 



to stop leakage in 



Ice, to preserve 

 Ink for zinc labels 

 Instructions to hybridise plants 

 Lawns, to kill moss on 



to destroy worms on 



Leakage in hot-water pipes, to 



stop 

 Mai-ble, to clean 

 Mealy-bug, to destroy, on vines 

 Mice taking peas, to prevent 

 Mildew in all sorts of plants, to 



prevent 

 to remo\-e from roses, pelar- 

 goniums, &c. 



to cure in cucumbers 



Mistletoe, to propagate 

 Moles, to poison 



to extirpate 



Moths for pi'eserving, to kill 

 Moss on lawns, to kill 



on meadow-laud, to kill 



. on fruit-trees, to prevent 



the growth 

 Mousetrap, garden 

 Mice, to poison 

 Mushroom spawn, to make 

 Names on wall-fruits, to grow 

 Orchidfe plants, to kill scale on 

 Otto of roses, to make 

 Parsley, to dry, for winter use 

 Peaches, &c., to protect from 

 wasps 



Peach trees, vines, S:c., wash for 

 Peas from slugs, to prot ect 

 Pine plants, to kill scale on 

 Preventive for red spider in 



melon pits, &c. 

 Plant sticks, to prevent rotting 

 Putty, to make imperishable 

 Rats, to poison 

 Red spider, to prevent attacks of 



on vines, to destroy 



thrips, &c., in pits, to kill 



Scale on orchida;' plants, to kill 



on pine plants, to kill 



wash, to kill 



from fruit trees, to remove 



Seeds for exportation, to pre- 

 pare 

 Solution to preserve wood 

 Snails and worms 

 Timber trees, to poison 

 Tobacco M'ater, a cheap 



to prepare British-grown 



Trees, on oj)eu walls, to fumi- 

 gate 

 Trap for cockroaches 

 Tulips, &c., to expand 

 Turnips, from fly, to ensure a 



crop of 

 Vines from bleeding, to stoj) 



peaches, &c., wash for 



to destroy red spider on 



— > — to kill mealy-bug on 

 Wasps' nests, to destroy 

 AVaterproof composition for 



calico 

 Weed and worms in gravel 



walks, to kill 

 White flowers red, to turn 

 Wireworm, to protect from car- 

 nation 

 Worms on lawns, to destroy 

 Wood, solution to preserve' 

 Woodlice, trap for 



to kill 



to clear a conservatory of 



Zinc labels, to make ink for 

 to make blacklead indelible 



London; GROOMBRIDGE & SONS, 5, Paternoster Row. 



