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quick lime or stone lime, dissolving in forty-five or 

 fifty gallons of water. Dissolve the sulphate in hot 

 water, dilute the lime when slaked with fifteen gal- 

 lons of water ; then unite, and the compound is ready 

 for use. Keep the solutions separate unless you wish 

 to use at once. For Paris green mixture dissolve 

 about three pounds of quick lime and a single pound 

 of Paris green in two hundred gallons of water. 

 Use an excess of lime when spraying peach trees or 

 plums. 



Kerosene emulsion is made by dissolving half a 

 pound of hard soap in a single gallon of boiling wa- 

 ter; add two gallons of kerosene and churn with a 

 small pump, until the whole is so thoroughly mixed 

 as to constitute a soap. This emulsion should be 

 kept on hand at all seasons and can be used for scale 

 insects in winter, as well as for thrips and lice in sum- 

 mer. 



You say I have altogether omitted discussion of 

 the fight in the flower gardens. I have not, for kero- 

 sene emulsion is the one altogether important pre- 

 ventive and remedy for the enemies of the rose and 

 of the borers and insects on the shrubbery. Keep 

 a pail of this emulsion ready at all times. For roses 

 and similar plants use about half a pint to a pail of 

 water, and spray thoroughly. For house plants a 

 spray of suds from sulpho-tobacco soap is useful ; and 

 about equally effective is a spray of water in which 

 have been boiled tobacco stems; add water to make 

 two gallons of liquid for every pound of tobacco 



