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refined acid may be used when tlie crude is not at hand. When pi^epared 

 as above, make a moderately strong suds, and apply with syrinije or sponge. 

 In using on very delicate j)lants, should any fear be felt for the plants, they 

 can be rinsed off after a few minutes. My first and eminently successful 

 use of this compound was some years since, on a block of young cherry 

 trees, some fifty thousand in number. The black aphis " came down like 

 the wolf on the fold/' only " they came not as single spies, but in whole 

 battalions." It soon became an interesting question as to who was the 

 proprietor of this particular block of trees — myself or the "bug Ethiopian." 

 A disinterested observer of judicial turn of mind, judging from the general 



-appearance of things and the very " at home" air assumed by the bugs, 

 wovild have said that they had the best case. He would, at least, have 

 been compelled to admit tliey had " nine points of the law" (possession) in 

 their favor. I never saw the like before — the trees were alive with ^phis. 



'The only scarce things on the trees were leaves, there being hardly enough 

 to afford " standing room " for all the dusky guests. However, not being 

 a convert to the doctrine of "squatter sovereignty," I declared war, and 

 failing to decrease the number by ordinary means, I compounded soft soap 



;and carbolic acid, rand with a single aj)plication exterminated the enemy. 



— T. T. S., in Gardner'' s Monthly-. 



THE GROWING OF PEAS. 



On the 7th of April last I planted 17 varieties of peas in rows of same 

 length, adjoining each other, on a good black, sandy soil, which in former 

 years had been well manured and which was in good condition the ))ast 

 season. The following table will give the date of first picking as nearly 

 as may be, and the height of vine. Notes below will tell of their qiuility 

 ;and productiveness: 



Varieties. 



Xiandreth's Extra Early, 

 Miggett's Extra Early, 

 Philadelphia Extra Early, 

 'Carter's First Crop, 

 "Tom Thumb, - - - 



Alpha, , - . - . 



American Wonder, . . - 



Blue Peter, . - . , 



Advancer, . . - . 



Premium Gem, . . . .. 



Little Jem, ... - 



Dwarf Marrowfat, - - - - 



'Telephone, .... 



Champion of England, , - 

 Forty Fold, - . . . 



'Challenger, . _ . _ 



Yorkshire Hero, . ^ .. 



