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formed in the early part of the season, would have remained 

 in a healthy and uncankered state. 



John Braddick, Esq. transmitted to the Secretary, in a 

 letter dated the 4th of March, an account of the following 

 Composition, which he has used with much advantage, for 

 washing the branches of Fruit trees, for the purpose of de- 

 stroying the insects which harbour on them. He mixes one 

 pound of flour of brimstone in three gallons of gas water, 

 adding soft soap sufficient to make the liquid adhere to the 

 buds and branches. The mixture is made over fire without 

 danger. It is applied in the month of March, and has been 

 used under glass on the most delicate trees, without doing 

 them any injury. A considerable number of trees may be 

 completely washed over in one day by a single person. 



On the 18th of March, a paper by Mr. George William 

 Johnson, of Great Tatham, in Essex, was read, detailing the 

 result of some comparative experiments on the Effect pro- 

 duced on Vegetables by the mixture of small quantities of salt 

 in the soil. In all the instances reported, though no very 

 perceptible or important effect seemed to be produced on 

 the plants, yet in the produce of seeds, in every case, there 

 was a remarkable excess in favour of those treated with salt. 

 In Celery, the produce was in the proportion of 4 to 3 ; in 

 Brocoli of 22 to 19 ; and in Carrots of 14 to 19. 



On the 6th of May, a communication was read from Mr. 

 Edmund Malone, Gardener to George Savile Foljambe, 

 Esq. of Osberton House, in Nottinghamshire, describing a 

 mode of grafting on the large branches of old trees, which he 



