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slit the bark of the main trunk on two opposite sides 

 from the crotch to the ground, and well down the roots. 

 Then dig out the soil from around the tree, one foot 

 deep, and one or two feet from the tree on all sides, and 

 sprinkle it well with the carbolic acid tree-wash, and fill 

 up the hole with new soil taken from without the orchard, 

 apply the carbolic acid tree-wash to the body, and, as 

 far as possible, to all the limbs of the tree. Give the 

 trees a good dressing, (especially if the wood and fruit- 

 buds appear to indicate it by the rules laid down under 

 the chapter on fertilizing the orchard) of a fertilizer 

 suitable to the case. 



CARBOLIC ACID FRUIT-TREE WASH. 

 For five hundred trees — take 

 Crude Carbolic Acid, one pint ; 

 Strong Whale oil soap, or soft soap, one gallon. 



Mix this with two gallons of boiling water, let it 

 stand twenty-four hours, and add seven gallons of rain 

 water. R. Peters added soil to thicken it, and the wash, 

 before noticed as his wash, may be used instead of this. 

 If applied in May and June it will destroy the eggs and 

 drive off all kinds of moths. 



I say, don't use green manures if you don't want 

 blight. If they are to be used, they should be thoroughly 

 composted for a long time until all fermentation has 



