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every day, be considered in the light of a storing 

 process. After awhile — say about three weeks — 

 steps must be taken to cool them down by degrees, 

 and to gradually inure the plants to the Hght. It is 

 best, in this case, to have a clean and sweet pit duly 

 prepared, with a bottom heat of 85 degs. some time 

 previously. All that is necessary here is to take care 

 that the plants, as before observed, are gradually 

 inured to light, air, and, if in the autumn, to a 

 comparative dryness of atmosphere ; providing, at 

 least, that they are to be kept in dung-pits through 

 the winter. 



The third class of remedies prescribed for the de- 

 struction of the scale insect, are powerful medicated 

 mixtures ; and from the very numerous recipes which 

 have been recommended we select such as we know 

 from our own experience, or from the experience of 

 practical gardeners among our friends, have been 

 found to be efficacious. 



Mr. Griffin's recipe is :— To one gallon of soft rain 

 water, add eight ounces of soft green soap, an ounce of 

 tobacco, and three table spoonsful of turpentine ; stir 

 and mix them well together in a watering-pot, and 

 let them stand for a day or two. When you are 

 going to use this mixture, stir and mix it well again, 

 then strain it through a thin cloth. If the fruit 

 only is infested, dash the mixture over the crown and 

 fruit with a squirt made for that purpose, until all is 



