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whatever remains of the liquor on the leaves, 
should be washed off with clear water. It would 
be improper to pour a decoction charged with such 
offensive materials over fruiting plants. This 
peculiar dose, for a tenacious insect, is not to be 
applied indiscriminately to exotics in a general 
stove, as it might make the more delicate leaves of 
shrubs drop off.” 
Muirhead, in his communication to the 
Caledonian Horticultural Society, says, “ First 
take a small brush, made of bass mat, tied on a 
small stick, flat on the end, to go down to the 
under end of the leaves, where the Bugs harbour 
most. Brush and water them as well as possible, 
then put one pound of flour of sulphur to a common 
garden-pan full of water, if a little more there is 
no danger of injuring them. The quantity, ac- 
cording to the number you have to clean. Put 
the pine plants into this liquor, and let them 
remain twenty-four hours. Be sure they are all 
covered, which may be done by putting a boai'd 
over them, and a small weight on it. When they 
have been immersed for twenty-four hours take 
them out, set them on end, with their tops down ; 
let them stand till they be dry, tlien pot and treat 
them as plants not infested.” 
In respect to Nichols’s Recipe, the most 
useful article which it contains is the soft soap, 
and that only will be of use applied at proper 
times, as I have before stated, and all the others 
may be properly dispensed with as useless. But 
