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day, they pass and repass in very great numbers. 

 They do not confine themselves to the leaves only, but 

 attack the bunches of grapes also, especially at the 

 time when they are almost ripe ; and as they extract 

 the juices from them, the grapes soon become flabby, 

 and ill-flavoured. {Speechley, 171.) The Red Spider 

 connot thrive — scarcely exist — where a sufficiency of 

 water is regularly applied. As, however, syringing 

 cannot be persisted in at all times, something else is 

 requisite at those periods, when the syringe is laid by. 

 Sulphur, then, is the best thing at present known for 

 this purpose ; but as many persons are deterred from 

 the use of it, through a fear of its pernicious eifects, 

 we will here detail our mode of using it, by which 

 we have been kept (we might almost say entirely) 

 free of this pest for the last twelve years. We apply 

 it about three or four times in the course of the year, 

 to each house ; the houses are on the average about 

 thirty feet long, by some sixteen feet wide, and we 

 use about six ounces to each house each time ; applied 

 in the form of thick paint. The houses are heated 

 by hot water, and the sulphur paint is applied to the 

 under or return pipe alone. The best way is to beat 

 a lump of soft-soap, as large as a walnut, up in warm 

 water ; and to add some clay water, made by working 

 a lump of clay in warm water until the water becomes 

 a thin paint ; then to blend this with the soap water ; 

 and finally to mix the sulphur also. The soap and 



