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frames. Is far more efficacious than lime or soot, and 

 does no harm to the crops. 



Gishurst Compound (Price's).— An old and excel- 

 lent preparation for destroying Greenfly, Mealy Bug, 

 Scale, etc. Good, for cleaning yineis in winter. 



" XL - All " Nicotine Liquid Insecticide 



(Richards'). — A well-known remedy for Greenfly, Mealy 

 Bug, and Scale insects. 



Apterite (Cooper's). — A soil fumigant, which, when 

 dug into the soil, diffuses deadly fumes upwards and 

 downwards, and kills Wire worms, Leather Jackets, Wood- 

 hce, Ants, Millepedes, and Slugs. 



Kilogfrub (Peak and Co.). — Another soil fumigant, 

 having a similar action and effect to the previously-named 

 preparation. 



Vaporite (Strawson'is). — A soil fumigant, the first of 

 its kind to be introduced. Has a similar action and effect 

 to the preceding remedies. 



" Naptho-Nicotyl '" (Voss's). — A preparation for de- 

 stroying Grubs, Beetles, Slugs, Eelworms, etc., in 

 the soil. Use at the rate of l|oz. per square yard, dig- 

 ging same deeply into the soil in winter. 



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" Carbo - Nicotyl " (Voss's). — A preparation for 

 sterilising the soil in which tomatoes previously infested 

 with Eelworm have been grown ; also for application to 

 composts intended for tomato culture under glass as a 

 preventive of Eelworm and fungoid attack. Use half a 

 pint to three gallons of water, pouring the " Nicotyl " 

 into the water, and stirring the whole freely. Above quan- 

 tity sufficient for fourteen square yards. Apply with a 

 water-can, then give three good waterings to wash the 



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