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serving them from the attack of insects is a material 

 point. Whenever we see the plants growing heai- 

 thily, there we seldom see insects ; but if they be- 

 come stunted or sickly, immediately do insects make 

 their appearance. Many remedies have been adver- 

 tised for the destruction of the different insects 

 which infest pines ; but the writer used but one, which 

 he always found eflScacious. This was nothing more 

 than sponging the plants with soft water, to a gallon 

 of which was put half a pint of tobacco liquor ; and 

 while yet moist, dusting the leaves with a hair- 

 dresser's puff, charged with the following ingredients 

 in powder, viz, 



1 lb. Sulphur Vivum. 



4 02. Camphor fine powdered, 



1 oz. Stone Vitriol ditto. 



2 quarts of Soot finely sifted. 



The whole to be well mixed, and kept dry in a jar 

 closely corked when not wanted for use. After this 

 application, the plants should be kept in moist heat 

 for a few days, at the end of which time all the in- 

 sects will have fled. 



The best compost for pines, is equal parts of 

 melon and cucumber soils mixed together ; or, what 

 will be easier understood, soft loam taken from under 

 the turf of an old meadow or pasture, and mixed with 

 half the quantity of good rotten stable dung. This 

 laid together for a month or two, and turned and 

 broken till all is intimately incorporated, will be lit 

 for use : it should neither be sifted nor screened. 

 The collecting and putting together many different 



