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ous matter, after the trees are taken from the trelUs or 

 wall, with the following composition : — The strongest 

 drainage of the farm-yard one gallon ; soft-soap 1 lb. ; 

 flowers of brimstone i lb.; mix; let all stand for 

 several days, stirring the mixture three or four times 

 a day ; get ready some finely-sifted quicklime, and stir 

 into it, till of the consistence of good stiff paint, when 

 it is ready to be applied ; its effects are certain and 

 excellent. Lay it on with painter's sash-tools, of dif- 

 ferent sizes. Coat over, carefully, every part of the 

 tree so effectually, that not a bud, chink, or crevice 

 escapes the mixture. Use the whitest lime for the 

 hothouses, as, when dry, you can see any axil of a 

 bud or crevice that may have escaped the first dress- 

 ing ; and to make sure, go over them two or three 

 timxCs. After such a dressing, all animalcules are so 

 completely destroyed, that neither green-fly, thrips, 

 scale, or red spider, are to be seen during the season. 

 As white lime does not look sightly upon wall-trees, 

 either mix soot with jt, or else use the mixture with- 

 out either the soot or lime. (Hort, Soc, Trans, ii. 

 37.) 



Peach Trees and Fines together, — Although, as 

 we have said, it is difficult to force these in the same 

 structure, yet the difficulty is not insurmountable. 

 They are so forced at the Earl of Jersey's; and Mr. 



F. D. Levington gives these directions for carry- 

 ing it out. Where he so cultivated them the house 



