74 THE CANADIAN IIDRTlCULTL'llIST. 



The proper method is to begin early^ that is, soon after the plums have 

 set, and repeat the operation daily for a week or more, and after that 

 every second day for two or three weeks longer, or as long as the insect 

 appears to be prevalent. Small trees should be jarred with the hand, 

 larger ones may have one of their lower limbs cut off, leaving a few 

 inches of stump, the end of which may be struck with a mallet ; or a 

 hole may be bored in the tree and an iron bolt inserted Avith a large 

 flat head, which latter may be struck with a hammer or mallet. A 

 suitable sheet must be provided to be spread under the tree; one made 

 according to the following directions will answer the purpose well. 

 Take nine yaixls of cotton, cut it into three lengths of three yards each 

 a;nd stitch them together, then take two strips of pine, an inch square 

 and nine feet long, and tack the two outer edges of the sheet to these 

 strips. Now tear the cotton sheet down the middle, half way, and it 

 is ready for use. By means o^f the strips this sheet can be readily 

 spread while the rent admits the trunk of the tree to the centre. 

 Shaking the tree will not dt), it must be jarred with a sudden blow, 

 and the insects which fall on the the sheet be picked up and destroyed. 

 Morning and evening will be found the most favorable times for this 

 work, as the insect is then less active than in the middle of the day. 



Various other remedies have been suggested, many of them worth- 

 less, but among the best of them, air slacked lime or sifted wood ashes 

 thrown up into the tree in the morning while the dew is on the foliage, 

 ©r thoroughly smoking the tree by burning coal tar under it. By 

 any of these methods the leaves and fruit are more or less coated with 

 material offensive to the insect, but we doubt whether the use of either 

 of them is so effectual as jarring, and since they require to be 

 repeatedly applied, we question whether they would not be more 

 troublesome to carry out than the janing process. 



THE POOE MAN'S GAEDEN, 



FKOM SOCIAL NOTES, LONDON, ENGLAND. 



Among the chief of the many improvements A\hich this our dingy 

 metropolis has received within the last few years, must be classed the 

 attention given to flowers and window gardens. The very rich have 



