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diminished by the addition of soot, the pores are still 

 more injuriously plastered up. 



Mr. Watson's mode of applying it is the following : 

 — A common water-barrel, placed on a wheel-barrow, 

 is best suited for the purpose, and it should be filled 

 as full of water as a person can conveniently wheel it. 

 Put in plenty of quicklime, as water will only take up 

 a certain portion ; it cannot be made too strong, but it 

 should not be so thick as to prevent its being applied 

 with a syringe, having a coarse rose. Mr. Watson 

 thinks it is best to wheel it immediately to the trees, 

 even when warm, which it will be by the slacking of 

 the lime. It will be necessary for one person to keep 

 stirring it while another syringes the trees ; by this 

 means a portion of the lime is carried with the water, 

 and adheres to the trees. (Gard. Chron. 1843, 158.) 



The Missletoe is a parasite, undoubtedly injurious 

 to the apple tree, and should never be allowed to grow 

 on any valued variety. Many persons, however, like 

 to see it on the otherwise leafless branches during 

 winter, and it may be induced to grow on them by 

 raising a small tongue of the bark early in the spring, 

 on the under side of a branch, and inserting between 

 the wood and the tongue a seed of the missletoe. 



