5G " THE LEAVES OF THE TREE W6r6 FOK THE HEALING OF THE NATIONS." 



Having described rny invention, what I claim as new, and desire to se- 

 cure by letters patent is: 



1. The herein described method of driving and keeping destructive in- 

 sects away from cultivated ground, which consists in surrounding and 

 dividing said ground with or by means of fringes and intersecting belts of 

 eucalypti, substantially as set forth. 



2. The herein described method of freeing cultivated ground from in- 

 sect pests, which consists in planting eucalypti round and through said 

 ground, and charging the vegetable productions therein with electricity, 

 substantially as set forth. 



3. The herein described method of ridding cultivated ground of insect 

 plagues, which consists in providing fringes and intersecting belts of 

 eucalypti around and across said ground, and treating the vegetable pro- 

 ductions therein electrically with the aid of an emulsion, substantially as 

 net forth. 



4. The herein described method of planting fringes and belts of 

 eucalypti round and through cultivated ground, giving the roots of each 

 plant a longitudinal and downward set, substantially as set forth. 



5. The herein described method of cleansing, vitalizing and strength- 

 ening vegetable productions, which consists in the application of electricity 

 to growing wood or vegetable matter, substantially as set forth. 



6. The herein described method of treating plants electrically, which 

 consists in the use of any suitable means of conveying a current therefrom 

 along, around, or through said plants, substantially as set forth. 



7. The herein described method of purifying and fertilizing cultivated 

 ground and the vegetable products therein, which consists in surrounding 

 and intersecting the same with eucalypti fringes and belts, substantially 

 as described, and conveying an electric current thereto by means of wires 

 connected with any suitable electric source, aided by an emulsion com- 

 posed of potash, flower of sulphur and water prepared and applied sub- 

 stantially in the manner and proportions herein set forth. 



The various detailed methods in the above specification are so closely 

 interwoven with each other for the eradication and prevention of destructive 

 insect plagues as to necessitate their united adoption, in order to ensure the 

 desired results. The electric appliance bei ng to cleanse insect infested roots 

 and to vitalize the surrounding soil, whilst the Eucalypti fringes, etc. re- 

 pel periodical visitations of grasshoppers, locusts and other destructive 

 insects, as also fungi creating malaria, besides providing exceptional ever- 

 green shelter from wind storms, hoar frosts and pleasurable protection to 

 insectivorous birds. The emulsion, etc., to be used when required until 

 the Eucalypti trees mature. The particulars regarding the trenching and 

 arranging of Eucalypti plant-roots to be simply considered as a detail to 

 ensure said roots from straying in quest of more congenial soil. I 

 therefore for the above reasons and those stated throughout this treatise 

 respectfully submit that the plan as a whole is worthy of serious con- 

 sideration, as by its general adoption a more than gradual restoration of 

 local forest-lungs an 1 consequent climatic benefits within the boundaries 

 of all fruit and grain growing centres would be assured, whilst the har- 

 nessing of reinvigorated water falls and of the ocean beach eurf now 

 seriously contemplated would furnish an abundance of the electric 

 motive and fertilizing fluid at a nominal cost to rural districts. 



