70 LILIES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS 



Botritis cinerea. The recipe is given below. The 

 beneficial action of sulphur is well known in vegetable 

 as well as animal pathology, as in the treatment of 

 mildew in plants and skin diseases in animals. One 

 observant amateur treated his bulbs after they were 

 dug up by shaking them up in a paper bag with 

 some flowers of sulphur (sulphur in fine powder) 

 so as to get it well in among the scales ; he said 

 that the next season the plants did well and showed 

 no sign of disease. 



Bordeaux Mixture 

 Sulphate of copper and fresh quicklime, one pound 

 each. Dissolve the sulphate in a wooden tub and 

 slake the lime in a pail or anything convenient. 

 Pour the lime when slaked into the sulphate solution, 

 and add ten gallons of water ; syringe gently with 

 this mixture, and again a week or ten days later. 



