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they had been exceedingly destructive, the solution, dry them and keep till 

 and by sweeping the grass with a hag- I wanted. To fumigate, roil one of the 

 net, like an angler's landing net, only | pieces into a pipe like a cigar, leaving 

 covered with canvas, immense numbers the hollow half an inch in diameter, 

 of the gnats might be taken and de-i which fill with tobacco, twist one end 



stroyed." — Gard. Chron. 



and stick it into the soil, light the other. 



TITHONIA tagetiflora. Stove and it will burn gradually away for an 

 evergreen tree. Cuttings. Light rich hour or more." 

 soil. I Tobacco smoke should not be ad- 



TOBACCO. Nicotiana, whether in | mitted to fruit trees when in bloom, 

 the form of snuff, or its decoction in nor when the fruit is ripening, as it 

 water, or its smoke whilst burning, is j imparts to them a flavour. See Fumi- 



very destructive to insects. 



gating. 



Tobacco paper is paper saturated with ! Tobacco Water is usually made from 

 the decoction of tobacco, and when what is known as Tobacconists'' Liquor, 

 burnt emits a fume nearly as strong. It being a liquor expressed by them, and 

 is an easy mode of generating the , full of ammonia and the acrid oil of the 

 smoke. Whenever plants are smoked plant. To every gallon of this add five 

 they should be done so on two follow- ' gallons of water. This mixture with 

 ing nights, and then be syringed the i Read's garden syringe may be sprinkled 

 following morning. Mr. Cameron says, ' over the trees, putting it on with the 

 — " I have always found tobacco paper finest rose, and being carefiil to wet all 

 the most efficacious substance to fumi- ' the leaves. This operation is to be 

 gate with for destroying the aphis with- ! performed only in the hottest sunshine, 

 out doing any injury to the plants ; if as the effect is then much greater than 

 the house is not filled too rapidly with | when the weather is dull ; five gallons 

 smoke, and is allowed to reach the ' of liquor reduced as above stated, 

 glass, without coming in contact with ' cleanses seventeen peach and nectarine 

 any of the plants, it then descends as trees, averaging seventeen feet in 

 it cools, without doing any injury, length, and twelve in height. The 

 Plants fumigated in frames, or under black glutinous ap/i/s, provincially call- 

 hand-glasses, are most liable to be in- ' ed blight, so destructive to the cherry 

 jured by the heat of the smoke, if not j trees, and in fact every species of aphis, 

 done cautiously. There is a spurious ' is destroyed in the same way with equal 

 kind of tobacco paper sometimes offer- I facility ; the grubs which attack the 

 ed in spring by the tobacconists, appa- i apricot, may be destroyed almost in- 

 rently made to meet the increased de- stantly by immersing the leaves infested 

 mand, and this kind of paper will bring I in this liquor. — Gard. Mag. 

 the leaves off plants, without killing As the tobacconists' liquor cannot be 

 many of the aphides. It is of a lighter ( obtained always, tobacco water may be, 

 color than the genuine sort, and may i in such case, made by pouring half a 

 be readily detected by the smell being ! gallon of boiling water upon one ounce 

 very different. Foliage should be per- ! of strong tobacco, and allowing it to re- 

 fectly dry when a house is fumigated, main until cold, and then strained. 



TOCOCA. Two species. Stove ever- 



and should not be syringed till next 

 morning. If plants are syringed im- 

 mediatelv after fumigation, many ofj 



;reen trees. Cuttings. Peat and loam. 



TOCOYENA longiflora. Stove ever- 



the aphides will recover even where ! green shrub. Cuttings. Sandy peat and 



they have dropped off the plants, a 

 fact which any one may soon prove 

 after fumigating a house." — Gard. 

 Chron. 



Another very simple mode of fum 



loam. 



TODDALIA. Two species. Stove 

 evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Loam, 

 peat, and sand. 



TODEA. Two species. Ferns. 



gating plants in frames, and under Green-house herbaceous perennials, 

 hand-glasses turned over them for the Division or seeds. Loam and peat, 

 purpose, is as follows: — "Dissolve a' TOLPIS. Five species. Hardy an- 

 tablespoonful of saltpetre in a pint of nuals. Seeds. Common soil, 

 water; take pieces of the coarsest' "TOMATO or Love-apple. This 

 brown paper, six inches wide, and ten ! plant is a native of South America, and 

 inches long, steep them thoroughly in ' perhaps of the West Indies j thence in- 



