THE CHASE NURSERIES, GENEVA, N. Y. 
To Agents 
If this descriptive catalogue is carefully 
studied, it will yield a large amount of valuable 
information. In selling stock you may give 
purchasers dozen rates for half-dozen lots, and 
hundred rates for lots of fifty and upward. 
Study up whatever you have decided to push 
as your specialty. Don't try to learn all about 
everything, simply study on what you decide 
you can sell in the territory you intend to 
work. You will find in your price list, prices 
on nearly everything unless it is something 
new that has been introduced since price list 
was issued. 
Age at which Different Trees Fruit 
This varies greatly with different varieties, 
for instance the "Tetofsky" and "Duchess" 
standard pears often fruit the second year 
after transplanting, and bear very regularly, 
wliile the "Northern Spy" seldom fruits in less 
than seven years after transplanting, though 
one of the best apples and a prolific bearer 
when of fruiting age. The average time it 
takes for standard apples to fruit is four or 
five years. 
Dwarf Apples, 2 years. Blackberries, 2 years. 
St. Pears, 3 to 4 " Crab Apples, 2 
Cherries, 3 to 4 " Dwarf Pears, 2 
Gooseberries, 2 •• Plums, 3 to 4 " 
Grapes, 2 Currants, 2 
Quinces, 3 to 4 " Raspberries, 2 
Roses geneiully bloom the season of planting. 
Formulas for Spraying 
Arsenite of Lead 
Arsenite of Lead, 4 to 6 lbs. Water, 100 
gallons. 
Amoniacal Copper Carbonate 
Copper Carbonate, 5 ounces. Ammonia, 2 pts. 
Water, 50 gallons. 
The copper carbonate is best dissolved in 
large bottles, where it will keep indefinitely, as 
it should be diluted with water as required. 
For the same purpose as Bordeaux. 
Copper Sulphate Solution 
Copped sulphate, 1 pound. Water, 25 gallons. 
This should be used only before the foliage 
appears. It is easily applied, and acts as a 
general germicide and disinfectant. In simply 
solution copper sulphate is very injurious to 
foliage. When lime is added, as in making 
Bordeaux mixture, its corrosive action is neu- 
tralized and injury to the foliage prevented. 
In this way a larger quantity of blucstone may 
be used, and it adheres to the foliage better by 
the agency of lime. 
Bordeaux Mixture 
Copper Sulphate 4 pounds 
Quicklime 4 pounds 
Water 50 gallons 
To destroy leaf-eating insects, add four 
6 
ounces of Paris Green. For Peach, use three 
pounds each of copper sulphate and lime, and 
three ounces of Paris Green, on account of 
the tenderness of the foliage. 
Ferrocyanide Test — Dissolve one ounce of 
yellow prussiate of potash in a pint of water 
and label "POISON." Drop it into the mixture 
and if it turns brown more milk of lime should 
be added. Add milk of lime until the solution 
will not turn brown. 
Hellebore 
Fi-esh White Hellebore, 1 oz. Water,3 gallons. 
Kerosene Emulsion 
Hard Soap Vs pound 
Boiling Water 1 gallon 
Kerosene 2 gallons 
Dissolve the soap in hot water and while 
hot add the oil. Pump the liquid back into 
itself 5 or 10 minutes until it becomes a creamy 
mass. 
For a 10 per cent emulsion add 17 gallons of 
water to 3 gallons of the above emulsion. 
For a 15 per cent emulsion add 10 gallons 
of water to 3 gallons of the above emulsion. 
Lime Sulphur Salt Solution 
Stone Lime 15 pounds 
Flower of Sulphur 15 pounds 
Common Salt 15 pounds 
Put lime in kettle, add three or four 
buckets hot water. \Vliile lime is boiling, add 
sulphur and stir briskly. If contents of kettle 
is likely to boil over, add another bucket of 
hot water. When the lime and sulphur have 
boiled for a few minutes, add the salt, and 
cook until the solution becomes dark amber in 
color. Usually an hour is sufficiently long to 
cook the mixture, but if it is not of the right 
color at this time, the cooking should be 
continued. When the mixture has been prop- 
erly cooked, there ought not to be more than 
a pint or so of residue left in the kettle. At 
the beginning of the cooking, stir continually, 
but after a few minutes, occasional stirrings 
will suffice. When the cooking is completed, 
the solution should bo strained through a fine 
sieve, made for the purpose, or through a gunny 
sack into the pumping barrel or tank and 
made up to 50 gallons of hot water. The 
mixture should be applied while hot and pref- 
erablj' as soon after making as possible, al- 
ways bearing in mind to keep it well agitated 
while the pump is in operation. Pumps and 
accessories used should be well washed and 
cleaned after each time of using. 
Concentrated lime-sulphur solutions may be 
purchased from the manufacturers, of which 
there are now a larger number making a good 
product, and can be used according to directions 
furnished with each package. 
Tobacco 
Boil tobacco stems, and use at the rate of 
two gallons to each pound of stems, for suck- 
ing insects. 
