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the earth, you will set the ants in 

 motion : then work your stake or 

 crow round the sides of the hole, 

 making them as smooth as you 

 can ; the ants will come to the 

 mouth of the hole and tumble in, 

 and by the shape of the hole and 

 smootjiness of its sides will be 

 prevented from climbing up again. 

 When you see a great many in the 

 bottom of the hole, pour in some 

 water from a watering pot ; and 

 thus you may drown thousands of 

 them. 



'^ You may likewise destroy ma- 

 ny of them by mixing quick lime 

 with soot, and laying it along their 

 roads, where you see them thick- 

 est j but where you can come at 

 their nesi?, the best way is to put a 

 piece of quick lime into it, and pour 

 as much water over the lime as will 

 slake it. the best of which will de- 

 stroy them: when you have pour- 

 ed in the water, cover the lime 

 with a turf or a little earth, which 

 will render it more effectual by 

 contiiiii g the heat. You may 

 slake the lime with a mixture of 

 urine and soap suds, which will 

 render it still more effectual." 

 Forsyth^s Treatise on Fruit Trees. 



The small garden ants, it is said 

 may be destroyed by placing among 

 them a number of large ants, com- 

 monly found in woods, which fall 

 upon and destroy, or drive from 

 their neighbourhood, the smaller 

 kinds. If the walls of an apart 

 ment arc- washed with a painter's 

 brush, dipped in a solution made of 

 four ounces of sublimate, in two 

 gallons of water, both the ant and 

 the red spider will be dislodged. 

 See article Ant in the Domestic 

 Encyclopaedia, 2d American edi- 

 tion. 



APPLES. Mr. Forsyth's Trea- 

 tise on the Culture and Manage- 

 ment of Fruit Trees gives a list of 

 44 difl'erent kinds of apples which 

 had come to the author's know- 

 ledge, with a description of the 

 qualities of each, and the author 

 has added several lists besides 

 from the catalogues of nursery 

 men in England and Scotland. 

 See p. 49, American edition. 

 The Massachusetts Agricultural 

 Repository, vol. iii. p. 95, gives 

 the following. The Rhode Island 

 Greening, a good fall and early 

 winter apple. The Nonsuch, a red 

 apple, very late keeping apple. 

 The Konpareil, a Russet apple 

 early in wmter. The J^ezvtown 

 pippin, a good, hard, late keeping 

 fruit. The Spiizenberg, a line 

 fruit, which keeps sound till May 

 or June. The Roxbury Russeting. 

 This is one of the best known, and 

 most valuable of fruits. It is not 

 fit to eat till February, and is very 

 easily preserved till June. The 

 Baldwin apple, a very valuable 

 fruit, beautiful, fine flavoured, and 

 will keep to the last of March. 



Apples keep best in a low tem- 

 perature, and may be well pre- 

 served in an ice house. 



An English Journal recommends 

 the use of dry pit sand, for pre- 

 serving pears and apples. Glaz- 

 ed earthen jars are to be provided, 

 and the sand to be thoroughly 

 dried. A layer of sand an inch 

 thick, is then placed in the bottom 

 of the jar ; above this a layer of 

 fruit, to be covered with a layer of 

 sand an inch thick ; then lay a se- 

 cond stratum of fruit, covering 

 again with an inch of sand. An 

 inch and an half of sand may be 

 placed over the yppermost row of 



