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ORCHARD 1NSKCTS. 
"With regard to any risk to the owners or workers, the points 
requiring care, consequently on its poisonous nature, are that the 
hags of “green” should be kept locked up, lest children should be 
attracted to them by their beautiful colour (this colour is a complete 
safeguard against the powder being used by accident for household 
purposes), and also that those who mix the powder should use common 
care not to inhale it throug mouth or nostrils. 
For this reason it is most desirable that purchasers of Paris-green 
should have it sent not in bulk, to be divided for use on receipt, but 
wrapped in single pound (or small) packages by the senders. I par¬ 
ticularly wish to draw attention to Mr. Dixon’s observations on this 
head, given in his replies to my enquiries (see ante, p. 71). 
“ In handling this article in the dry powder, care is required, as a 
light green dust arises which is breathed in, and produces unpleasant 
results; and in one instance a customer who thought he could save 
money by buying it from us in bulk, putting it up himself in paper 
parcels, employed a man to weigh out and wrap about 5 cwt. in 1 lb. 
parcels. This cost the man his life; so as we are laid out for this 
business, sometimes wrapping 10 tons in a week, we can really do it 
at much less cost. 
“We have never heard of any accidents to users in America, and 
there is no danger when using it in water” (i. e., from its flying about, 
E. A. 0.), “but you might advise any who wish to try dusting it on 
dry to carefully stand to windward.”—E. Dixon (Director), Messrs. 
Blundell & Spence, Hull. 
Where the Paris-green is used as a dry powder dusted on the 
plants, these points require consideration, but in mixing half to a 
quarter of a pound with water this may be done without the slightest 
risk; where I have had myself to weigh or move small quantities, 
I have found that folding a piece of thin muslin over the mouth and 
nostrils made all perfectly safe. 
With regard to price .—I made enquiry on this subject from Messrs. 
Blundell & Spence, who replied that for my general guidance they 
should say that a retail trader would not probably sell the pure 
article in small quantities under Is. 3 d. per lb. They being wholesale 
mannfacturers do not furnish in very small amounts, but quantities of 
1 cwt. and over would be furnished at 10 d. per lb.; and, for cash with 
order, any quantity not less than 14 lbs. would be sent separately 
wrapped in 1 lb. paper parcels, and carriage paid. I give the above 
details, as whenever the subject of Paris-green has been a little brought 
forward, there has been almost invariably much delay and difficulty, from 
details or locality of where it was purchasable not being generally known. 
My only knowledge of thorough use of the Paris-green wash in 
England was in 1884, when I recommended its trial to check a severe 
