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PART 11. 
IlORl’ICULTURAL AND RURAL SUBJECTS. 
REVIEWS AND EXTRACTS. 
Article I. — Extracts front Works on Horticulture, and 
Rural and Domestic Economy. 
1.—Gardeners' Magazine; edited by J. C. Loudon, F.L.S., &c. 
published every two months, 8vo. 3s.6d. 
No. 33, for June, 1831,—contains an article, 
5.—Page 280. On Destroying fVoodlice on Trees or in Frames ’,— with a Notice 
of a Mixture for jyrotecting the Ste7/is of Trees fi’om the erosion of Hares and 
Itabhits. Communicated l)y Mr. James Waldron, late Gardener to Sir 
William Call, Bart., of Whitford, near Callingtou, Cornwall. 
Take one lb. of dried cheese, and about one dram of powdered arsenic, perfectly 
dry, for it is a fact not generally known, that arsenic when moist is not a poison ; 
(^query) the best way therefore is to keep it in the lump, grate the cheese, and mix 
it and the arsenic well together. Then take small pieces of old hoard, and bore in 
each a hole about one inch in diameter, and as much in depth, put us much of the 
mixture as will lie on a shilling in each hole, and beat it down hard to the bottom; 
this done, lay the bits of wood with the holes undermost, wherever the insects are 
troublesome. The mixture requires to be renewed every day, and very little of 
it should be made at a time, as in two or three days the arsenic loses all its 
poisonous qualities. 
Notice of a Mixt^tre, for preserving the Stems of Trees from the erosion of 
Hares and Rabbits. —Mr. Waldron, has also a Balsam of very great efficacy in 
protecting trees from the ravages of hares and rabbits. It is not at all unsightly 
in its appearance, but is so offensive to the hares and rabbits, that Ibey will not 
approach it within a considerable distance. The composition he considers too va¬ 
luable a secret to be disclosed without a pecuniary remuneration : to which the 
editor adds, ‘'a circumstance we regret, and by no means approve ofbut we 
must beg leave to differ from Mr. Loudon in this particular;—it is our opinion 
that every person who makes a discovery that wall be of permanent advantage 
to society, ought to have a proper remuneration for his invention, or what is the 
use of humble individuals applying themselves to a particular object, if their re¬ 
ward is to be nothing more than the bare applaiise of the public. If Mr. Waldron 
has discovered any mixture that will prevent the devastation made by hares and 
rabbits on young trees, and the application of it is not expensive, the discovery is 
a most valuable one; we have hitherto seen nothing of the kind that has had the 
desired effect without injuring the trees; and if he will send us a little of his nos¬ 
trum and its effects are as represented, we will make him a handsome compliment 
to know what it consists of, for had we been aware of any veal preventative, we 
could have saved our employer upwards of a thousand pounds in the storm of last 
year. 
