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" I found the Cliiswick Compouud very effective in destroying Scale." 

 Probably this would be as serviceable an application as could be found, 

 as it is a mixture of soft-soap and sulphur, which act well against these 

 kinds of bark infestations, and it has the advantage of the sulphur 

 becoming soluble (so as to be completely mixed with the wash) in from 

 sixteen to twenty-four hours after the requisite amount of hot water to 

 dilute the mixture to a safe strength has been added. 



The mixture is procurable from the Chiswick Soap Company, Chis- 

 wick, Middlesex, and is very similar in composition to a mixture used 

 with success in South Australia (under the name of " Burford's Soft- 

 soap and Sulphur Compound") against several kinds of bark attack, as 

 Aphides, Eed Spider, &c. Probably any of the common soft-soap 

 washes, especially those that are mixed with sulphur and mineral oil, 

 would be of use, and if a stronger application was needed, the following 

 recipe for " Burford's No. 1 Kerosine Soap " might be of use. 



" Take equal weights of kerosine and soft-soap and stir together in 

 a convenient vessel, which should be placed in the sun in summer, or 

 in a bucket containing hot water in the winter time. In from ten to 

 twenty minutes' time the two ingredients will coalesce, when it can be 

 diluted as required " ; * probably in this country the hot water would 

 be more to be trusted to than the heat of the sun at any time of year. 



To the above suggestions of preventive or remedial treatment may 

 be added, with regard to date of clearing infested boughs in winter 

 pruning, that it is desirable this should be done, and the Scale-infested 

 boughs cleared from the ground and burnt before the time when the 

 larval Scales will be hatching and dispersing themselves about bushes. 

 It should be done quite by the commencement of February, Also it is 

 desirable, after the prunings have been gathered up, to stir f the surface 

 of the soil under the bushes, and to throw a little quick-hme, or any 

 preventive mixture preferred, on the soil just round the stems to pre- 

 vent the little Scales making their way back to the branches. 



* The above, and other useful recipes, will be found in the ' Report on the Fusi- 

 cladiunis (Black-spot, Scab, and Mildew Diseases), Codlin Moth, &c.,' by the late 

 Frazer S. Crawford, Inspector under the Vine, tfec, Protection Act, South Australia. 

 E. Spiller, Government Printer, Adelaide. 



t In mentioning that stirring the surface soil and throwing on quick-lime is 

 useful, I most particularly wish to observe that I do not advise "deep digging" 

 under the bushes as a preventive measure for this or any other Gooseberry attack. 

 As far as I am able to form an opinion, such a measure would be injurious in the 

 extreme to the roots of the Gooseberry bushes, and as a remedial measure for infes* 

 tation of Gooseberry Sawfly, as I have recently seen recommended, it would (as is 

 well known to practical workers) fail in beneficial effect, as it would merely disperse 

 a large proportion of the cocoons. In this case the surface should be skimmed off 

 no deeper than is necessary, and destroyed with the contained cocoons. — (E. A. 0.) 



