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and set tlieir fruit freely, and both were found to be infested with aphis, the 
tree which had been dressed, equally with the one which had not. 
A solution of the compound—about 4 ozs. to a gallon of boiling water 
—was now made, and before this was quite cold it was carefully applied to 
the trees with a common syringe ; and this application, without in any 
perceptible manner injuring either foliage or fruit, appeared to thoroughly 
free the trees from every appearance of fly. In about ten days it was 
again thought advisable to give another syringing with the compound, of 
similar strength ; and this was followed by one or two syringings with cold 
water, which kept the trees perfectly clean during the remainder of the 
season ; indeed they have never suffered seriously from insects since. 
The winter following the summer just alluded to, the fruit trees con¬ 
tained in two large orchard houses at this place, consisting of Peaches, 
Nectarines, Cherries, and Plums, were divided into three portions. One 
portion wuis dressed carefully with Gishurst compound, 8 ozs. to the gallon 
of boiling water, applied when cold with a painter’s brush. Another 
portion was dressed in a similar manner with the following composition :— 
Half a pound soft soap, and half a pound tobacco, boiled half an hour in a 
gallon of water, and to this was added half a pound sulphur, half a pound 
hellebore, one pint of fresh lime, and one pint of soot. The third or 
remaining portion was left undressed. In the following spring it turned 
out, as in the case of the Plum trees, that the trees which had been dressed, 
were in no respect freer from insects than those which had not. 
These facts, I think, justify me in discontinuing the indiscriminate 
winter dressing of orchard-house trees, Vines, &c. I would nevertheless 
recommend your readers to try the experiment for themselves. Let them 
leave a few trees in each house undressed; and if during the following 
spring and summer they find them to suffer more from insects than those 
which receive a dressing, then by all means let them continue to winter- 
dress. I shall have more to say on this subject. 
Culford Hall. Peter Grieve. 
NOVELTIES AT FLOWER SHOWS, &c. 
TILL another sport from that fine large-flowered Chrysanthemum 
Princess of Wales, making the third it has thrown. The one under 
notice is of a creamy white colour, of the incurved form, the base of the 
florets tinged with rosy lilac, and is, like its progenitor, a large, full, 
and handsome flower. It is named Beauty of St. John's Wood , and 
Messrs. E. G. Henderson & Son were awarded a first-class certificate for it 
at the Meeting of the Floral Committee on the 3rd of December last. Mr. 
George, of Stamford Hill, sent some blooms of his comparatively small- 
flowered golden sport from Hermine, which he has named St. George. 
