PARIS-GREEN. 
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To recapitulate , tlie mixture should he of an even strength ( specified 
on previous pages repeatedly), which strength should never be 
exceeded for our present consideration of spraying for moth cater¬ 
pillars, and this mixture should he distributed so as to remain 
in the finest film of moisture. This point should always be borne 
in mind. 
Various forms of apparatus would answer this purpose, but 
with regard to what has been tried and found to answer well 
at Toddington Fruit Grounds, in our past season’s experiments, 
I was favoured by Capt. Corbett (in July last) with the follow¬ 
ing note:— 
“ The knapsack pump, or No. 1 ‘ Eclair,’ used at Toddington 
plantations, can be had of Messrs. Chas. Clark and Co., Windsor 
Chambers, Great St. Helen’s, E.C., sole agents.* One great advantage 
is that the movement of the man keeps the liquid agitated. It is an 
admirable instrument, and we like it better than anything.”— 
(R. J. C.) 
On the 24tli of December, Mr. J. Masters, of Evesham, wrote me 
regarding this “ Eclair ” spraying machine :—“ The ‘knapsack’ form 
is everything that could be desired in producing the fine misty 
spray, and it is admirably adapted for trees and bushes not 
exceeding twelve to fourteen feet high. Above that height we 
must get either the Strawsonizer, or the force pump with a fine 
nozzle.”—(J. M.) 
Mr. C. Lee Campbell, also writing to me on this subject from Glew- 
stone Court, Ross, Herefordshire, observed:—“ The little French ma¬ 
chines used at Toddington are admirable in the hands of a painstaking 
man, and are the only machines which I have heard of that can be used 
where the ground is packed, as it is there, with undergrowth of bush 
plants, &c. But to my mind we shouldleave nothing to chance;” and here 
Mr. Lee Campbell mentioned an arrangement of dashers which at his 
suggestion was being added to another and much larger form of spray¬ 
ing machine (mentioned further on), by means of which the Paris- 
green was kept thoroughly mixed in the water without depending on 
the care of the operator. 
* The decease of Capt. Corbett interrupted the arrangements which he had 
almost completed between M. Yermorel (Villefranche, Rhone, France), the manu¬ 
facturers of the “ Eclair ” sprayer, and Messrs. Chas. Clark & Co., the sole English 
agents. I therefore recently made arrangements myself that a few of the sprayers 
should be imported on my own responsibility (so that in case of these not finding 
purchasers the loss might fall on myself), and that we should not again be without 
requi-ite apparatus. The price, I understand, will in some degree depend on numbers 
that can be imported at once, but may be generally stated at about 35/-. All communi¬ 
cations with regard to purchase should be sent to Messrs. Chas. Clark & Co., 
Windsor Chambers, Great St. Helen’s, London, E.C. 
