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torpid in them, and to afford a better opportunity 
for the Mixture to be applied in all parts neces- 
sary. 
On a fine warm day, when the insects are 
chiefly out of their harbour, about twelve or one 
o’clock, at the fore-end or middle of March, or 
rather about when the bloom buds are pretty well 
swollen, but before the flower petals at all ap- 
pear, the Mixture (No. 3) should be plentifully 
forced on with the engine, that all crevices and 
holes in the walls may be well filled with the 
Mixture, and so as to wet the tree all over as well 
as the earth adjoining the wall, and a little space 
from it. In three or four days after, or the 
neai-est succeeding serene or sun-shining day, the 
Mixture, No. 5, may be applied in the same man- 
ner, which will be a means of meeting with those 
the former operation may have missed, and it may 
be used with greater safety as the bud advances 
to a state more liable to be injured, than the 
former preparation ; but both must be avoided when 
the bloom is about to open and when fully expand- 
ed. If this performance should be neglected, much 
good may be done towards eradicating these little 
animal, by gathering off all the infested leaves, 
which will be spotted brown, as before mentioned, 
and which will be readily observed. 
Also much good may be done for the destruc- 
tion of both eggs and insects at the latter end of 
September, by gathering a great portion of tlie 
leaves, (minding in plucking to draw the hand 
