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known as Appleby's, Fig. JOD. These forms are adapted for preparations of tobacco 

 paper, burning without the use of bellows Bard-burned 8-inch flower-pots may bo 

 improvised for fumigating. Stand each pot on a couple of bricks placed about 

 2 inches apart on the floor, having the pots about 'J feet apart, but half that distance 

 from the ends of the house; and a cloud of smoke may be had that will quickly fill the 

 structure. Be extremely careful that the tobacco does not break into a fl-une, pre- 

 venting it by a sprinkling of water very gently applied. 



In large establishments an ordinary 4'i ncu sieve, with a forked stick secured 

 beneath it to form a handle about 3 feet long, serves as an efficient and expeditious 

 fumigator. A few hot cinders are placed in the sieve on which the tobacco paper is 

 spread, and a cloud of smoke arises, speedily filling the house. One person carries the 

 sieve and another attends with damp tobacco paper torn in pieces, and a watering can 

 with a fine rose. It is simply a matter of walking through the houses, shaking the 

 sieve, replenishing it with tobacco paper, damping when necessary to prevent blazing, 



Fig. 99. BLOXHASC'S PATENT FI::.IU;\TO^. Fig. 100. AITLEBY'S FI-MIOATOR. 



and exercising judgment as to when to withdraw from the house. There is little danger 

 of scorching by this plan, and it is one of the oldest, simplest, and best modes of fumi- 

 gation with tobacco paper. Though hot cinders are mentioned in connection with this 

 subject, red-hot charcoal is better, for there are always some sulphurous emanations 

 from cinders. Campbell's " Rolls," McDougall's 4< Sheets," and Fowler's "Cones," 

 are largely employed in fumigating 



Spraying. All the solutions and mixtures advised as fungicides or insecticides, unless 

 otherwise directed, are to be distributed in a fine mist or vapour-like spray, or made 

 to ascend and fall, so as to cover the under as well as the upper sides of the leaves, 

 shoots, and fruits with moisture. It is of the utmost importance that every part of the 

 tree be reached. Drenching trees by means of garden engines or syringes that cause 

 more of the solution or mixture to run off than remain on the leafage is wasteful, anu 

 more or less injurious. The solution or mixture should never be applied so as to drip 

 from the ends of the leaves or points of the fruits, or the former may die at the tips, and 

 the latter have discoloured patches. 



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