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The soil should be thoroughly wetted through, and 

 allowed to remain for a week before anything is sown 

 or planted. 



The above solutions may also be applied with benefit 

 where fungi, as Armillaria mellea, and other root parasites 

 appear around the roots of trees, etc. 



Mr. G. Abbey, a constant contributor to the Journal 

 of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener on the subject of 

 plant diseases to whom, I am afraid, I am too selfish 

 to admit the full extent of my indebtedness for the 

 numerous practical hints on the various diseases to which 

 plants are subject, the outcome of many years of experi- 

 ence suggests the following as remedies against eelworm, 

 mites at the root, and wireworm : 



' Dress the land in the spring, just before sowing 

 seeds or setting plants, with nitrate of soda, if Ibs. per 

 rod, z\ cwt. per acre, having it crushed fine, and evenly 

 distributed when the ground is moist, but with a prospect 

 of fine weather or only slight showers for a few days. This 

 will kill slugs and leather-jackets, as well as eelworms, 

 root mites, and wireworms. 



' Kainit, also crushed fine, may be used similarly to 

 the nitrate of soda at the rate of z\ Ibs. per rod, 3^ cwt. 

 per acre. In using these substances separately there is 

 danger of getting too much growth in the plant from 

 the nitrate of soda, and too little, if not some retardation, 

 by the use of the kainit ; and in cases of land broken up 

 from old pasture, or badly infested with grubs and wire- 

 worms, the quantities separately are not only insufficient, 

 but not the correct thing for the crop, say potatoes. In 

 that case, if cwt. of nitrate of soda and 3^ cwt. of 

 kainit, mixed, per acre, or 3 Ibs. per rod, will give a 



