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the form, and texture, of the foliage of many trees and plants, are 
so small and delicate, that no person could effectually clean with the 
brush, but the most that could be accomplished was to just preserve 
the trees from being actually destroyed by the insects. We very 
frequently find this insect attack our choice fruit trees against the 
walls in the open air in dry summers, and often so contigious to the 
hot houses that the old method of brushing the leaf was seldom 
found sufficient to stand through one season, without being over and 
over repeated, in consequence of their so rapidly increasing, and 
spreading from the walls on the outside. 
With such a multiplication of obstacles no wonder that the brush¬ 
ing system fell into disrepute. The chief object in destroying insects 
on plants, is to make use of a method, where the operation can be 
performed with ease, dispatch, and without injuring the most delicate 
foliage ; these and many more essential recommendations are inclu¬ 
ded in a method practised by me, which was originally communica¬ 
ted to me by one of the best practical gardener’s I am acquainted 
with, Mr. J. Hay thorn, late gardener to Lord Middleton, at Wolla- 
ton, near Nottingham. About thirteen years ago I called on Mr. 
Haythorn, at the season of the year when the work of brushing was 
in progress, he expressed a wish that I should make trial of a remedy 
he had used with perfect success some years. It is as follows:— 
Take half a pound of sulphur, put it in a pail, to this add as much 
water as will make it into a paste, then put three, four, or six gal¬ 
lons more of water, just as the size of the vessel will allow, stir the 
mixture until the water appears of a pale buff colour. With this 
liquid, syringe every plant and leaf in the house, on which either the 
insect exists, or to which the least suspicion is attached; let it be re¬ 
peated twice or three times a week, until every part of the foliage is 
saturated, or as long as the application of water from the syringe is 
requisite. 
In a vinery, commence syringing as soon as the bunches are thin¬ 
ned ; in a peacli-house, cherry-house, or orange-house, as soon as 
the fruit is perfectly set; and in proportion to the quantity of water 
required to each species of fruit, put in the sulphur. A house na¬ 
turally damp, will, of course, be less liable to the insect; here the 
mixture should be applied in a thicker state, and at longer intervals. 
Most gardeners are of opinion, that there is something very congenial 
to the constitution of plants in sulphur; when applied externally, it 
it appears, particularly under glass, to enter the whole system. It 
has been detected in plants by chemists, and there is no doubt, but 
it corrects many diseases in vegetables, as well as animals. 
