82 SOW TO DESTROY INSECTS, 



MILDEW. 



JiXildetv on Hoses. 



Carbolic soap, veil diluted in water, will destroy 

 mildew on roses. It is to be applied \>y sprinkling. 



A good wash to prevent miklew is with a sponge and 

 soft-soap water, made with three or four ounces of soft- 

 soap to a gallon of water j the soap should be dissolved 

 in cold water. 



VARIOUS WASHES FOB TREES AND 

 SHRUBS. 



Throw slacked lime as a dust over trees and bushes 

 when the foliage is wet. 



Syringe with soap-suds, or tobacco-water, or a strong 

 decoction of quassia with soap-suds. Chloride of lime, 

 a weak solution, will preserve plants from insects j 

 sprinkle well over them. 



Red Spider on Currant and Gooseberry Bushes. 



A gardener has used soluble sulphur in large quanti- 

 ties for the destruction of red spider on gooseberry and 

 currant bushes, nnd prepares it as follows : " I slack 

 some quicklime, and mix it with about half its weight 

 of common flour of sulphur in a heap, with a little 

 water, as in ranking mortar. After lying a few hours I 

 boil it for twenty minutes in a large boiler of water in 



