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“ the Mildew may be kept under (I cannot say 
be cured) by washing trees affected by it with a 
Mixture of sulphur and lime-water. My mode of 
application is by the garden engine, with a little 
soap, or any other thing that will separate it from 
the trees. It cleans them at the time, but does not 
prevent the Mildew from returning.” He also 
has introduced his friend John Hay’s method, 
which is, “ whenever Mildew was observed to 
affect a leaf, or the point of a shoot, the diseased 
leaf was picked off’, the point of the shoot dipped 
in water, in which black soap had been dissolved, 
and it was well dredged with a bellows puff 
filled with sulphur. This was done in an evening, 
and washed off with the engine the following 
evening.” 
T. ScoUGAL, (Caledonian Horticultural Trans- 
actions) recommends a clay paint as being the best 
remedy for the Mildew he ever tried : it is pre- 
pared as follows I “ Take a quantity of the most 
tenacious brown clay that can be obtained, diffuse 
it among as much soft water as will bring it to 
the consistence of thick cream or paint; pass it 
through a fine sieve so that it may move per- 
fectly smooth, and free from any gritty particles.” 
T^is he appears to apply with a brush at the 
time of training, over the whole tree. 
Alexander Hay (Caledonian Horticul- 
tural Transactions) directs “ two pounds flour 
sulphur, two pounds soft soap ; add them together, 
with as much boiling water as will bring them 
