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neither, then apply grafting-wax spread on cloth in the same way, melting to 

 spread, covered with common mud from the road. Says a correspondent of 

 the Rural New Yorker, "The bark will grow again without a scar." 



L Fruit Trees, to Secure Against Bark Lice Borers, etc.— 

 Prof. A. J. Cook, of the Agricultural College, Lansing, Mich., informs the 

 readers of the Detroit Tribune, that an application of soft soap to the trees the 

 first week in June, and at the same time in July, will ensure safety against the 

 borers ; and it also exterminates the bark lice, if the rough bark is scraped off 

 to ensure the soap reaching them alL 



I. For the Lice, the scraping may be done earlier, and the soap, 

 diluted only enough to apply readily as a wash, but to extend to all large 

 branches, and the trees will start into new life and more active growth from its 

 application ; and, if done from the setting out of an orchard, there will be 

 little or no trouble from these pests. 



n. The Borer makes its appearance about the first of June and deposits 

 its eggs upon the bark, near the ground, and another writer says, referring 

 more particularly to the peach borer, " These pests can be entirely exterminated 

 by removing a small portion of the earth from the body of the tree near the 

 roots, and filling its place with a quart of soft soap. If the borer has attacked 

 the tree this will kill him, and if not the soap will not injure the trees and the 

 borer will not get at them through the soap." 



If it is good for peach trees, it is as good for apple trees, or any other. 

 Bands of cloth should be put arovmd trees by the middle or last of June, to 

 prevent the ascending of the pest that stings the fruit, and care taken to kill 

 all that take " lodging " under the bands. 



nL Fruit Trees, Plants, etc., Chloride of Lime Ensures 

 Against G-rubs, Vermin, etc., on Trees and Plants. — Le CuUivateur, 

 a French journal, says: 



"If chloride of lime be spread on the soil, or near plants, insects and vermin 

 will not be found near them," and adds : "By its means plants will easily be 

 protected from insect plagues by simply brushing over their stems with a solu- 

 tion of it, or sprinkling upon. It has often been noticed that a patch of land 

 which has been treated in this way remains religiously respected by grubs, 

 while the unprotected beds around are literally devastated. Fruit trees may 

 be guarded from the attacks of grubs by attaching to their trunks pieces of 

 tow smeared with a mixture of hog's lard and chloride of lime, and ants and 

 grubs already in possession will rapidly vacate their position. Butterflies, 

 again, will avoid all plants whose leaves have been sprinkled over with this 

 chloride of lime water." 



Reinarks and Directions. — This journal does not give the strength of the 

 above mixture, but one ounce of the chloride to eight of lard would be plenty, 

 no doubt, and one-half pound of the chloride to a pail of water, enough lor 

 the " solution." 



IV. Examination of the Trees for the Borer, and Remedy, 

 if They Have Entered the Wood.— Prof. Cook advises "a thorougl 

 examination of the trees in September, to ascertain whether the borer has gone 



