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tions, they will be discernible as soon as they 
come to life, by eating holes through the leaves, 
and may be easily destroyed without the least 
injuiy to the bushes or fruit.” 
Elliott adopts the following method : — 
“ Take six pounds of black currant leaves, and as 
many of elder, and boil them together in twelve 
gallons of W'ater ; then take 14 pounds of hot 
lime, and put it in 12 gallons of water ; mix 
them altogether, then wash the infested bushes 
and trees with the hand engine. After that is 
done, take a little hot lime, and lay it at the root 
of each bush or tree that has been washed, which 
completes the operation. He further adds, “ when 
the foliage is off, stir up the surface of the earth, 
all round the roots of the bushes and trees, and 
lay a little hot lime about them to destroy the 
eggs. This I have never found to fail of success 
since my first trial, six years ago.” 
Machuay says, “ Procure some tobacco and 
soft or black soap, and boil a quarter of a pound 
of tobacco, with one pound of soft soap, in about 
18 Scotch pints of water, and keep stirring the 
liquid, while boiling, with a wisk, in order to 
dissolve the soap. This liquid, when milk-warm, 
or so cold as not to hurt the foliage, I apply to 
the bushes with a hand squirt in the evening, and 
in the morning I find all the ground under the 
bushes covered with dead Caterpillars.” 
My opinion here leads me to say, there is no 
useful information to be gathered from Forsyth’s 
