60 GLEANINGS ON IIORTICULTURK. 



INSECTS. 



The scale is a most serious pest to the apricot ; the eggs will 

 be found in February on the old stems, just beginning to enlarge 

 preparatory to their hatching into caterpillars: unless they are 

 destroyed, they will make their debiat with the young leaf, which 

 they so mutilate and roll up as to damage the crop, and paralyse 

 the tree. Soft soap, lime, and sulphur-dressing, as applied to 

 peaches, will annihilate them if often repeated. 



SULPHUR PAINT. 



Beat up three ounces of soft soap with each gallon of tepid 

 water; add four handsful of flower of sulphur, and some soot to 

 subdue the tone of the colouring imparted, and some thick clay- 

 water, making the whole the consistence of ordinary paint. Let 

 this be applied by a brush to every space between the shoots, and 

 if a little should touch the shoots, it will not harm them. This 

 receipt destroys the scale of the narrow-winged red-bar moth, 

 the poedisca angustiorana, and the American blight on apple- 

 trees. 



RECEIPT TO DESTROY THE RED-SPIDER. 



Equal quantities of sulphur vivum, Scotch snulF, and slacked 

 lime sifted fine ; half the quantity of lamp-black, to be mixed 

 with soft soap and urine till it becomes the consistency of paint. 

 Before the sap rises, the old wood and young shoots should be 

 dressed with a painter's brush. 



ANOTHER RECEIPT TO DESTROY THE RED-SPIDER. 



Should this pest attack the peach, nectarine, or apricot, soon 

 after the leaf is expanded, sulphur is the sure remedy, for copious 

 ablutions from the syringe are prejudicial. The sulphur should 

 be blended with clay-water, made by well-kneading a lump of 

 clay until it is entirely dissolved : to this add soft soap, and a 

 pint of soot to a gallon of water, and apply this mixture with a 

 painter's brush. — ErringtorCs. 



RECEIPT TO DESTROY THE GREEN-FLY. 



To prevent these infestive insects, the following mode will 

 prove very successful: — Heat a plate of iron red-hot, then place 



