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Mr. Hamilton gives tlie following as an unfailing 

 recipe for destroying the Cotton (Mealy) Bug aad 

 White Scale : — Sulphur 8 oz., Scotch snuff 8 oz., hel- 

 lebore powder 6 oz.^ nux vomica 6 oz., soft soap 6 oz., 

 || Cayenne pepper 1 oz., one quart of tobacco liquor ; 

 add one quart of boiling water ; stir the mixture well, 

 breaking the lumps ; when cool, strain it through a 

 rough cloth ; after which it may be used at any time. 

 Having provided -a brush of sufficient length, let the 

 plants be washed with the mixture on both sides of 

 their leaves, allowing a portion of the liquor to run 

 down to the bottom of each leaf. When the mixture 

 is used for the white scale, the insects should be 

 removed during the process of washing. After the 

 leaves have all been washed and tied up, they must 

 then be turned out of their pots, and the balls re- 

 duced ; the trunk itself must be well washed, as the 

 scale will sometimes have reached its very base ; when 

 it is applied for the destruction of the cotton bug, the 

 roots also must be well washed. {Hamilton on Fine 

 Apple, 97.) 



The following is a receipt of the late Mr. Runci- 

 man's, who was a good pine-grower, for destroying 

 the scale insects which infest that plant : — Boil gently 

 together, in four gallons of soft water, lib. of tobacco, 

 lib. of sulphur, lib. of soft soap, and -|^lb. of nux 

 vomica, until the quantity is reduced to three gallons. 

 In this the crowns and suckers should be steeped for 



