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ent parts of the wall, half filled with vinegar and water 

 mixed with honey, sugar, or treacle, emptying the 

 bottles from time to time, and returning the liquor into 

 them again. 



Ants are also great devourers of ripe fruit. When 

 they are numerous, they may be effectually destroyed 

 by one quart of water in which an ounce of pounded 

 arsenic has bee boiled half an hour, and mixed with 

 sugar, so as to form a thin syrup : this must be placed 

 in oyster-shells at the foot of the trees or bottom of the 

 wall, covering them so as to keep off the rain : this will 

 require to be frequently removed, and kept in a liquid 

 state. 



Net Morello Cherries, to preserve them from birds. 



October. 



Apples and Pears will mostly require to be gathered 

 this month for laying up in the fruit room. The valu- 

 able autumnal varieties may be continued in season 

 much longer than their usual time, by gathering one 

 third of the crop a fortnight or three weeks before it be 

 ripe, one third a week or ten days afterwards, and the 

 remaining third when it is ripe : the last gathering in 

 this case will be the first to be brought to table ; the 

 second gathering will be the next ; and the first gather- 

 ing will continue the longest fit for use. After hot dry 

 summers, some of the finer winter Pears will continue 

 longer in succession, by pursuing this method, than if 

 the whole crop were to be left on the tree till ripe. 



Imperatrice, Saint Catharine, and Coe's Plums, may 

 be gathered and suspended by their stalks on twine, and 

 placed near the glass withinside of a south window for 

 a few weeks, and will continue to improve in flavour. 

 If after this time Coe's Plums are wrapped in thin, 

 soft, white paper, and put in boxes in a dry room, they 



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