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the most efficacious I have yet found is soft soap dis- 

 solved in soft water, two pounds to the gallon, or the 

 Gishurst compound, sold by Price's Candle Company, 

 one pound to the gallon, and applied with an old 

 painter's brush. Where this pest shows itself, the 

 branches should be painted in the autumn, after the 

 fall of the leaf, with paraffin, care being taken to rub 

 this well into the angles of the branches. 



Here let me impress upon the lover of his garden, 

 living anywhere within the reach of smoke, the neces- 

 sity of using the syringe ; its efficacy is not half appre- 

 ciated by garden amateurs. As soon as the leaves of 

 his fruit trees are fully expanded, every morning and 

 every evening, in dry weather, should the attentive 

 gardener dash on the water with an unsparing hand — 

 not with a plaything, but with the perforated common 

 syringe, such as a practical gardener would use, capable 

 of pouring a sharp stream on the plant, and of dis- 

 lodging all the dust or soot that may have accumulated 

 in twelve hours. For apple and pear trees in pots, or 

 in small city gardens, this syringing is absolutely 

 necessary. 



Pinching the shoots of pyramidal apple trees, and, 

 indeed, exactly the same method of managing the trees 

 as given for pyramidal pears on the quince stock, may 

 be followed with a certainty of success ; and the pro- 

 prietor of a very small garden may thus raise apple 

 trees which will be sure to give him much gratification. 

 To have fine fruit the clusters should be thinned in 



