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forty to eighty feet apart each way, and then tilling the 

 field in grain crops, I don't recommend any such 

 method. Peach trees may be planted on head-rows, in 

 lanes, on lawns and such places, but they don't do well, 

 because they cannot, from the nature of their surround- 

 ings, get proper tillage. 



RANDOLPH PETERS' TREE WASH. 

 Take lime, slack it and prepare, as for ordinary 

 white-wash, in an old barrel. Take sufficient at a time 

 to make a bucket two-thirds full, of proper consistence 

 for white-wash. Add to this, one pint of gas-tar, one 

 pound of whale-oil soap, dissolved in hot water ; or one 

 pound of potash, or one pint of common soft-soap, or one 

 pint of strong lye, from wood-ashes, or from concentrated 

 lye ; then add clay or loam sufficient to make a 

 bucketful of the wash of proper consistence to be 

 applied with a white-wash brush. Clear away the 

 dirt from the tree and apply with a brush, from the 

 limbs of the tree down to the roots. It will destroy 

 the bark-louse and all scale-insects and will give 

 the trees a bright, clean, healthy appearance. It will 

 drive out all borers, and moth will not deposit eggs on 

 or about the tree the same season the wash has been 

 applied. Rabbits and mice will not touch the trees 

 where this wash has been used. Apply it in May for 

 borers, and for the general benefit of the trees, and late 

 in the autumn, as a preventive against rabbits and 

 mice. Don't use gas-tar, pure, on trees; it will kill them. 



