118 CARROT. 



" The following is the recipe I give : — Pour two tea-cupfuls of 

 water into a pan, and add a heaped table-spoonful of soft-soap, then 

 boil ; remove the pan, and pour in a tea-cupful of paraffin ; let the 

 mixture simmer for five minutes, and keep stirring all the time ; cool 

 and hot le. This quantity is sufficient to water a bed of Carrots in a 

 cottage garden. To use the mixture : — Add the above quantity to two 

 gallons of water in a watering-can which is fitted with a rose. Water 

 1st after sowing, 2ad after germination, 3rd after thinning. If wet 

 weather should prevail, then water a few more times. 



" The following gentlemen have used the emulsion on my recom- 

 mendation, and with uniform success : — 



" 1. Eev. J. Eae, Congregational Manse, New Deer, by Aberdeen. 



"2. Eev. M. C. Thorburn, E.G. Manse, Lumphanan, Aberdeen. 



" 3. Eev. E. McLean, School-house, Lumphanan, Aberdeen. This 

 gentleman has tried Carrot-growing but without success for twenty- 

 three years, and this is the first year he has got a healthy crop. He 

 used the emulsion as I directed. 



" 4. W. A. Clark, Esq., M.A., School-house, Slains, Aberdeenshire. 

 Also the first healthy crop he has grown. 



" Those gentlemen have reported to me many similar examples in 

 their parishes and neighbouriug districts." — (E. T.) 



I would certainly suggest to those who are troubled with " rust- 

 maggot," that they should try the above recipe, and I should be glad 

 to have information of results. From the nature of the mixture it 

 might reasonably be expected to do much good, and where such is the 

 case, knowledge of an application which can be given when the need 

 for it arises, is a general benefit. 



