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TO PREVENT MOSS ON TREES. 



An excellent plan for preventing young fruit trees from 

 becoming hidebound and mossy, and for promoting their 

 health and growth, is to take a bucket of soft soap, and to 

 apply it with a brush to the stem or trunk from top to bot- 

 tom ; this cleanses the bark, destroys worms or the eggs 

 of insects ; and the soap becoming dissolved by rains, 

 descends to the roots and causes the tree to grow vigor- 

 ously. A boy can make this wholesome application to 

 several hundred trees in a few hours. If soft soap was 

 applied to peach trees in the early part of April to remove 

 or destroy any eggs or worms that might have been de- 

 posited in the autumn, and again in the early part of June, 

 when the insect is supposed to begin its summer deposite 

 of eggs, it is believed we should hear less of the de- 

 struction of peach trees by worms. But the application 

 should not be suspended for a single season, on the sup- 

 position that the enemy had relaxed in his hostility. Try 

 it this spring, and communicate the result with all the 

 circumstances. 



TO RESTORE DISEASED PEACH TREES. 



Apply salt and saltpetre, combined in the proportion of 

 one part of saltpetre to eight parts of salt ; one half pound 

 of this mixture to a tree seven years old and upward, to 

 be applied upon the surface of the ground around, and in 

 immediate contact with the tree ; this will destroy the 

 worm, but to more effectually preserve the tree, sow this 

 mixture over any orchard, at the rate of two bushels to 

 the acre. The size of the fruit is increased, and the fla- 

 vor very greatly improved, the worm destroyed, and the 

 yellows prevented. 



It has been mentioned by writers on the culture of the 



