WASH FOR THE STEMS OP FRUIT TREES, ETC. 31 



If any of the composition be left for a future occasion, it 

 should be kept in a tub or other vessel, and urine poured 

 on it so as to cover the surface, otherwise the atmosphere 

 will greatly hurt the efficacy of the application. 



When lime rubbish of old buildings cannot be easily got, 

 take pounded chalk or common lime, after having been 

 slaked a month at least. 



As the growth of the trees will gradually effect the plas- 

 ter, by raising up its edges next the bark, care should be 

 taken, when that happens, to rub it over with the finger when 

 occasion may require (which is best done when moistened 

 by rain), that the plaster may be kept whole, to prevent the 

 air and wet penetrating into the wound. 



As the best way of using the composition is found, by 

 experience, to be in a liquid state, it must, therefore, be 

 reduced to the consistence of a pretty thick paint, by mixing 

 it up with a sufficient quantity of uiine and soapsuds, and 

 laid on with a painter's brush. The powder of wood ashes 

 and burned bones is to be applied as before directed, patting 

 it down with the hand. 



A WASH FOR THE STEMS OF FRUIT TREES. Take a peck of 

 fresh cow-dung, half a peck of quick lime, half a pound of 

 flour of sulphur, and a quarter of a pound of lampblack. Mix 

 the whole together with as much urine and soapsuds in a 

 boiling state as will form the ingredients into a thick paint. 



This composition may be applied to the stems of young 

 standard trees when planted out in the orchard, to prevent 

 their being injured by the depredations of reptiles and insects. 



A WASH FOR THE STEMS AND BRANCHES OF FRUIT TREES. 

 Take half a peck of quick lime, half a pound of flour of 

 sulphur, and a quarter of a pound of lampblack. Mix the 

 whole together with as much boiling water as will form the 

 ingredients into a thick paint. This composition is recom- 

 mended to be applied to the stems and limbs of Apple trees 

 which are infested with the White JWealy Insect, having pre- 

 viously removed the moss and loose bark by scraping them 



