Just Published, Fourth Edition , price 2s, 6d., 
THE GARDENER’S RECEIPT B©©K . 
Jontaining Methods for destroying all kinds of Vermin and Insects injurious to tht 
Garden, with Preventives and Cures fo: the different Diseases of Plants, and 
Directions for the preservation 31 Trees, Fruit, Flowers, &c M &c. 
BY WILLIAM JONES. 
The following are the Principal Contents of the Work :— 
Adhesive texture for stick- i Flowers, to preserve cut 
ing specimens on paper 
Ants, to expel 
-— to kill 
Angle formed by roofs of 
greenhouses, &c., the 
rule to ascertain 
Apples, to keep a long time 
Artificial coral for rock- 
work, to make 
Asphaltefor walks, a cheap 
Attacks of maggots in 
onion, to prevent 
-- of red spider, to pre¬ 
vent 
Bee, to cure the sting of a 
Birds from seeds, to scare 
--to poison 
Blacklead, indelible on 
zinc, labels to make 
Blight, to clear roses from 
-to destroy American 
Branch or flower, in the ex¬ 
act position to preserve 
British-grown tobacco, to 
prepare 
Carnations* from wire- 
worm, to protect 
-to protect from rabbits 
Caterpillars, on gooseberry 
trees, to kill 
Cattle barking trees, to 
prevent 
Cement to fasten pieces on 
iron pipes 
Club, in brocoli, to prevent 
Cockroaches, trap for 
-to poison 
Composition to heal 
wounds on roses, &c. 
—— to make calico trans¬ 
parent and waterproof 
Conservatory, of wood- 
lice, to clear 
Coral, to make artificial, 
for rockwork 
Crickets, to poison 
Cucumbers, to cure mil¬ 
dew in [of time 
-to keep fresh a length 
- and melon seeds to 
prove 
-— to clean [time 
Cut flowers, to keep a long 
Dahlias, to keep through 
the winter [kill 
Docks dandelions, &c.,to 
Duckweed of ponds, to 
clear 
“Earwigs, trap for 
Exportation, to prepare 
seeds for 
fireproof mortar, to make 
to revive withered 
Galvanic protectors, to 
make 
Garden mousetrap 
Gold fish, to treat 
Grafting wax, to make [in 
Grass plots, to kill worms 
Gravel walks, to killwgeds 
on 
Green paint,to make cheap 
Green fly on plants, to de¬ 
stroy [to cure 
Gumming, in fruit-trees, 
Herbarium, to dry plants 
for 
Honey from bees, without 
destroying them, to take 
Hot-water pipes, to joint 
- to stop leakage in 
Ice, to preserve 
Ink, for zinc labels 
Instructions to hybridise 
plants 
Lawns, to kill moss on 
- to destroy worms on 
Leakage in hot-water 
pipes, to stop 
Lettuce and Strawberries, 
to protect from snails, 
&c. 
Marble, to clean [vines 
Mealy-bug. to destroy on 
Mice taking peas, to pre¬ 
vent 
Mildew in all sorts of 
plants, to prevent 
-to remove from roses, 
pelargoniums, &c. 
-to cure in cucumbers 
Misletoe, to propagate 
Moles, to poison 
- to extirpate [kill 
Moths for preserving, to 
Moss on lawD s, to kill 
- on meadow-land, i,o 
kill 
- on fruit-trees, to jj re- 
vent the growth 
Mousetrap, garden 
Mice, to poison 
Mushroom spawn, to make 
Names on wall-fruits, to 
grow [scale on 
Orchidse plants, to kill 
Otto of roses, to make 
Parsley, to dry, for winter 
use [from wasps 
Peaches, &c., to protect 
-trees, vines, &c.,wash 
for 
Peas from slugs, to protect 
Pine plants, to kill scale on 
Preventive for red spider 
in melon pits, &c. 
Plant sticks, to prevent 
rotting [able 
Putty, to make imperish- 
Rats, to poison [tacks of 
Red spider, to prevent at- 
-on vines, to destroy 
-thrips, &c., in pits, to 
kill 
Scale on orchidse plants 
to kill 
- on pine plants, to kill 
- wash to kill [move 
-from fruit-trees, to re. 
Seeds for exportation, to 
prepare 
Solution to preserve wood 
Small birds, to poison 
Snails & worms crawling 
up trees, to prevent 
Sting of a bee, to cure 
Thrips, &c., on cucum¬ 
bers, to kill 
Timber trees, to poison 
Tobacco water, a cheap 
-to prepare British 
grown 
Tomtits, to poison 
Trees, on open walls, to 
fumigate 
- for snails 
- for earwigs 
-for mice 
Trap for cockroaches 
Tulips, &c.. to expand 
Turnips, from fly, to en¬ 
sure a crop of [stop 
Vines from bleeding, to 
-peaches, <fcc ,wash for 
-to destroyred spider on 
-to kill mealy-bug on 
Walnuts with their shells 
clean, to preserve 
Wash to prevent cattle 
barking trees 
-for vines, peaches, &c. 
Wasps' nests, to destroy 
Waterproof composition 
for calico 
Weed and worms in gravel 
walks, to kill 
White flowers red, to turn 
Wireworm, to protect 
from, carnation 
Worms on lawns,to* estroy 
Wood, solution to preserve 
Woodlif e, trau for 
- to kill [tory ni 
- to clear a couserva- 
Zinc labels, to make ink 
for [indelible < »n 
- to make blacklei d 
London: —GRQOMBRIDGE SONS, i, Paternoster Row. 
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