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on tlie estates of large proprietors would not only 

 add a feature of interest and usefulness to their 

 homes, but be in effect small pomological schools 

 that might be of service to cottagers and small 

 holders in the surrounding districts. 



A few comparatively new Apples of promise 

 worth trying are : Bismarck, Lady Sudeley, Mrs. 

 Barren, The Queen, The Sandringham, Newton 

 Wonder, Gascoigne's Scarlet, September Beauty, 

 Beauty of Bath, Tyler's Kernel, Washington, and 

 Baumann's Red Winter Reinette. 



Enemies. These are : mainly (1) the American 

 blight, a woolly Aphis which infests the stems and 

 seriously injures the trees; The remedies for scale 

 on Pear trees (page 96) aro equally effectual for 

 he Aphis in question if vigorously forced into 

 every crevice where the insects are visible. (2) The 

 Codlin moth, the caterpillar of which causes "worm- 

 eaten" Apples. Immediately the fruits fall the cater- 

 pillars leave them and ascend the trees ; they may 

 be prevented doing so by a band of cotton-wool, 

 hay, or sacking, well smeared with cart grease 

 and oil ; soft soap half-a-pound, Stockholm tar and 

 whale oil, three parts of the former to one of the 

 latter, the whole slightly heated and mixed ; or of 

 resin and oil, two-thirds of the former and one of 

 the latter, melted and mixed ; the bands to be 



