J^O I^£W Method of d^Jfrojing Injcils. 



the foap to dilTolve in it, and add the mu{hrooms after they 

 have been a little pounded. Boil the other half of the water 

 in a kettle, and tie up the fulphur in a bit of rag or pjece of 

 fine linen, and fufpend from it a fufficient weight in order 

 Jhat it may fink in the water. During the time the water is 

 Jcept boiling, which muft be at lead twenty minutes, ftir it 

 cbntinually with a ftick, and prefs the bag containing the 

 ^Iphur, that the latter may be forced out into the water and 

 communicate to it the neceflary ftrength and colp.ur. 



When tlic liquor is taken from the fire, popr it dire£lTy 

 into the calk, and flir it round for a confiderable time : the 

 procefs of ftirring nitjift be repeated .daily till it acquire a fetid 

 fn>ell. Experience has {ho.wn tlxat the more fetid the mix- 

 ture is, its a6livity is the greater. Each time tliat the mix- 

 jlure is ftirred, the cafk muft be ftopped immediately after. 

 When you wiih to ufe the liquid, nothing is neceflary but 

 to fprinkle a little of it on the plants which you are defirou^ 

 of preferving, or to dip their branches in it. It will be bet- 

 ter, however, to make u^fe of a fyringe, having at the end a 

 Jaead, an inch or an inch aud a half in diameter, pierced with 

 fmall holes. This inllrument may be jifed for tender plants^ 

 when you apply the liquid to trees, a fyringe \yith larger holes 

 mnft be employed. 



Caterpillars, beetles, earth-fleas, hugs, and the ,tree-lice 

 which infeft orang<;-trees, will be dcftroyed by tl>e firft ap- 

 plication of the liquid. Infe<^s which refule below the earthy 

 Inch as wafps, hornets, ants, &,e. require that the liquid 

 fliould be fquirted out gently, and without jnlcrmJ0ion, that 

 it may better penetrate to their nefts, Ants-nefts, according 

 to their fize, require from two to three meafures of liquid, 

 and in many cafes it muft be applied for twenty-four hours. 

 When the ants affcmble in another pl.ace, the p;rocefs muft 

 be repeated. Two ounces of nux vomica may be added tt) 

 the mixture and boiled along with the fulphur. Thi? fub- 

 ftance, parlicularly when you wifti to deftroy ants, will b^ 

 of great fervice. When the whole of the liquid in the cafk 

 has been ufed, the refiduum muft be buried jn the earth tp 

 jsrevent domeftic anlnjajs from eating it. 



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