HOW TO iJEsmor ixsects. 



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from three to six cents per pound : pljice it in a skillet 

 on the tire : it Avill soon i?-o to what seems water, then 

 evaporate and leave a white powder ; keep it on the hre 

 till it hecomes a lia'ht brown, when it is done. Use a 

 fourth of a pound^ or, if the trees are much covered 

 with moss or are very dirtjr. use half a pound to tlie 

 gallon of water. AVash the trunks and large limbs, 

 using a sponge or cloth. It can be used at anv season 

 of the year, but winter is preferable. This wash will 

 not injure tlie foliage of the most delicate plant. In a 

 few vreeks after u^ins-, the trees will look as clean and 

 sleek as though they had been varnished, and their 

 growth and healthy ap])earance will be most astonish- 

 ing. This is probably the l:)est and cheapest wash for 

 this purpose for garden use that can 1)e suggi^sted. 



Experiments u itJi Cfwholic Soap. 



An Ohio horticulturist succeeded in various experi- 

 ments with carbolic soap as follows : 



Cat-worms. — For cut-worms I inade the soap-suds 

 pretty strong — two gallon^ of water to half a pound of 

 soap — and with it saturated a bushel of sawdust, then 

 •placed a little around the stem of each cabbage and 

 tomato plant, using a handful to eight or ten plants^ 

 adding a little more after two or tlu'ee days wlien the 

 odor seemed gone. This was completely successful in 

 ground Avhere the worms were (paite plenty, and where 

 plants not protected were speedily cut off by them. It 



