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12 Large Gladioli Bulbs, total value $1, 
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THE G A RD EUN* = eeANGrAw Zz win Nek 
Lime-Sulphur; Concentrated or 
Self-Boiled? 
T IS necessary to distinguish sharply between 
self-boiled lime-sulphur and what is known 
as concentrated lime-sulphur, which may be 
either home made or commercially made and 
bought. 
Self-boiled lime-sulphur seems to be chemi- 
cally different from concentrated lime-sulphur. 
In making the former you watch the lime boil- 
ing and, by adding water, keep the temperature 
down to a non-burning point. When the lime 
is nearly all slaked, or in not longer than fif- 
teen minutes, add cold water till all boiling is 
stopped and the heat is reduced to 90 or 100 
degrees. The so-called non-burning point is the 
point where the sulphur combines with the lime 
- chemically and makes sulphides, which will 
burn foliage in spite of all dilution. And this 
chemical action will take place if the boiling, 
or slaking, is continued too meee just as it will 
when the temperature goes too high—hence the 
necessity of stopping the action with cold water 
within the prescribed time. To sum up, self- 
boiled lime-sulphur apparently is just a mix- 
ture of lime and sulphur in which each main- 
tains its identity, though finely pulverized. 
Concentrated lime-sulphur, on the other 
hand, is frankly a chemical combination of 
lime and sulphur, in which the action of arti- 
ficial heat for at last forty minutes and often 
double this time brings about changes in both 
the lime and the sulphur until neither of them 
retains its identity. Further explanation of 
this process is not needed here, other than to 
say that the concentrated solution is much 
more caustic and apparently burns in a differ- 
ent way than self-boiled solution. 
Now, the remedy for San Jose scale is the 
concentrated lime-sulphur solution. Self-boiled 
solutions will not kill scale, or at least I never 
have heard of scale being killed by them, no 
matter at what strength applied. The summer 
strength of self-boiled lime-sulphur has been 
given variously at from 4-4-50, to 10-10-50, 
and at all these strengths it seems to be en- 
tirely free from burning. At any strength 
above 6-6-50 it also seems to be effective as a 
fungicide. How much stronger than 10-10-50 
you could make it and still not burn tender 
foliage, as of peach, I do not know, but I am 
inclined to think that it would not burn even 
if applied as a saturated solution. Lime itself 
will not burn; neither will sulphur. 
Concentrated lime-sulphur also can be used 
as a fungicide and applied safely to foliage 
provided it is diluted greatly. Thus, for apple 
and other such foliage not easily burned, it can 
be used as strong as one to thirty, while for 
peach it must be not stronger than one to fifty. 
At these strengths it is pretty effective, though 
I believe the records show that a somewhat 
cleaner sweep of the enemies is made with self- 
boiled solution. For killing scale, the concen- 
trated solution must be used at a strength not 
less than one to ten, while more often one to 
seven is used. Of course this is applied when 
there is no foliage and buds have not started to 
open. The caustic properties of the strong 
solution do not seem to affect the bark at all. 
A further fact that must be taken into ac- 
count is that arsenate of lead has a neutraliz- 
ing effect on the caustic properties of the con- 
centrated solution. You will find that ver 
few makers of the commercial lime-sulphur will 
guarantee that their product will not burn 
peach leaves even at one to fifty, or will not 
burn apple leaves even at one to thirty, unless 
you add the usual amount of arsenate of lead 
to the solution. Two pounds to fifty gallons 
for peaches, and two and a half pounds for 
apples, are the prope maximum amounts to 
use of arsenate of lead paste. These quantities 
will prove effective without burning of foliage. 
Penna. - J. R. Marrern. 
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