384 DIRECTIONS FOR FORMING A LIQUID, &C. 



This liquor is a cure for trees, however badly 

 affected by either insects or mildew ; but it is best 

 to use as a preventive in spring, as soon as the 

 leaves are sufl5ciently expanded, or when the fruit 

 are fairly set. A sprinkling given before the buds 

 burst, is also a good protection against attack ; but 

 for this purpose the liquor may be lowered, and 

 always applied before eight o'clock in the morning, 

 in order that the trees may get perfectly dry before 

 night. The liquid is easiest applied with a hand- 

 engine or syringe ; or, instead of these, a man on a 

 ladder may throw it on the trees with a fine-rosed 

 watering pot. 



The Powder for the destruction of the scale 

 insect on pines, is given under the description of 

 that fruite 



CKAELSS WOOD & SON, PRINTERS j 



Poppin's Court, Fleet Street. 



