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wood out of the trees. Now, you can 
go that far with pruning and you are 
working on the right line. You will find 
it will pay. 
Another thing. While I was at Cor¬ 
dova, Spain, last fall, I saw a lime-sul¬ 
phur solution being used with most sat¬ 
isfactory results, as a scalecide. I tried 
to find out where it came from, but the 
owner was not there, and the man knew 
nothing about it, but I gathered it was 
made in Germany and was an imported 
article. It was certainly giving satisfac¬ 
tory results for the destruction of the red 
scale. I think it would be well to look 
carefully into the lime-sulphur wash, for 
it has proved valuable in the spraying 
of deciduous fruits for both fungi and 
insects. 
