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wet weather, cave should be taken not to a[)ply 
the Mixture too often when the fruit is advaneing’ 
to its full size, as it will be productive of a similar 
effect. Care must also be taken to look over the 
trees frequently, for should a few escape, they would, 
in a short time, be numerously inhabited. It 
will also be proper to apply the Mixture (No. 7) 
twice at the fore end of October, when the latter 
family ai’e feeding, befoi’e they retire. 
It will be of great service in applying either 
of the above Mixtures, frequently to stop the 
engine, and the assistant immediately, with a 
w'isp of hay, or something similar, brush the leaves 
upwards, to spread the wet that is upon them to 
such parts as may have escaped ; at the same time 
care should be taken not to bruise the leaves. 
Summer applications should be performed eiu-ly 
in a morning, or about five o’clock in the evening, 
and the back end at any time of the day, as no 
material injury will be done to the foliage at that 
period by the sun’s rays. 
Forsyth recommends to “ take some fine 
wood ashes, mixed with one-third part of fine 
unslacked lime, and throw it on with a common 
dridging-box, till you have covered the underside 
of the leaves. Where you find the insect, this 
should be done in the morning early, while the 
dew is on the leaves, which will cause the powder 
to adhere to them, letting them remain so covered 
with the powder for three or four days, then mix 
unslacked lime and soft water, at the rate of half 
