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HOW TO DESTROY IXSECTS. 



MILDEW. 



Jlihlew on Moses. 



Carbolic soap, well diluted in water, will destroy 

 mildew on roses. It vn to be applied by sprinkling. 



A good wash to prevent mildew is with a sponge and 

 soft-soap water, made with three or four ounces of soft- 

 soap to a gallon of water ; the soap should be dissolved 

 in cold water. 



VARIOUS WASHES FOR TREES AND 

 SHRUBS. 



Throw slacked lime as a dust over trees and bushes 

 when the foliage is wet. 



Syringe with soap-suds, or tobacco- water, or a strong 

 decoction of quassia with soap-suds. Chloride of lime, 

 a weak solution, will preserve plants from insects; 

 sprinkle well over them. 



Med Spider on Currant and Gooseberri/ BiisJies. 



A gardener has used soluble sulphur in large quanti- 

 ties for the destruction of red spider on gooseberry and 

 currant bushes, and prepares it as follows : "I slack 

 some quicklime, and mix it with about half its weight 

 of common flour of sulphur in a heap, with a little 

 water, as in making morrar. After lying a few hours I 

 boil it fcr t^i^■•^y minutes in a large boiler of water in 



