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sulphur fumes, will produce the desired effect. At 

 the expiration of the three hours the fire should 

 be banked up, and a little fresh air admitted to the 

 house. Should any living spiders be found on the 

 foliage the following morning, the pipes should be 

 heated as before at night. I may say that I should 

 only have recourse to sulphuring the pipes when 

 a well-directed application of the syringe and clean 

 water failed to dislodge the spider. 



Brown Scale (" Lecanium Hibernaculorum ") and 

 Thrips (" Thrips minutissima ") sometimes effect a 

 lodgment on peach trees, and if not dealt with 

 pretty promptly during the winter pruning, they 

 will assuredly make their presence felt. The trees 

 thus affected should be painted with a mixture 

 consisting of a quarter of a pound of soft soap 

 dissolved in a gallon of hot water and a port 

 wine glassful of petroleum, to which add a handful 

 of flowers of sulphur and a like quantity of new 

 soot, and sufficient clay to give the whole the 

 consistency of thick paint. This being stirred occa- 

 sionally, should be applied carefully and thoroughly 

 to the affected trees before they are re-arranged on 

 the wall or trellis; standard or bush trees so affected 

 should also be similarly dressed after the fall of the 

 leaf. 



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