24 DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS OF VICTORIA: 



To half a peck of quick-lime add 4 gallons of water, and stir 

 well together. When fully settled pour off the. trans- 

 parent lime-water, and add to it the soap and sulphur 

 mixture ; add to the same also, say, 4 gallons of tolerably 

 strong tobacco water. Apply this mixture, when thus 

 incorporated, with a garden syringe (or spray pump, 

 which is vastly the better method C.F.) to your plum or 

 other trees, so that the foliage shall be well drenched. 

 If no rains succeed for three weeks, one application will 

 be sufficient. Should frequent rains occur the mixture 

 should be again applied until the stone of the fruit be- 

 comes hardened, when the season for the Curculio's 

 ravages is past. 



This mixture is good to destroy the slug, caterpillar, 

 green-fly, thrips, and a host of the enemies of vegetation. 

 It is my impression that I found the wash stronger than 

 needed or desirable, and diluted it to a considerable 

 extent, but how much I cannot remember. The applica- 

 tion was made by means of a garden engine. As a result 

 the trees bore a full .crop of perfect fruit, while that of my 

 neighbours was destroyed as usual. Professor C. H. 

 Dwinelle to Mr. Mathew Cooke. 



We have here the best remedies which constant 

 application, combined with practical experience, and for 

 which our American friends are so justly famous, can 

 devise, and to which we may add our advice formerly 

 given as to the absolute necessity of not allowing rubbish 

 of any kind whatever to accumulate in any orchard. At- 

 tention to this and other important matters will probably 

 go a long way towards securing for us at least a partial 

 immunity from this and other formidable pests of the 

 farmer, fruit-grower, and vigneron, as well as for what 

 ought to be of importance to us, viz., our great forest 

 industry. 



Dr. J. H. Lintner, State Entomologist of New York, 

 in his second report, gives us a good hint which we would 

 do well to note. He says, U 0n the ridge, or near Lake 

 Ontario, ten miles to the northward, the Curculio attack 

 had been increasing for several years, and was quite 



