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spring. Unless these spurs are crowded on 
any part of the tree, we should not inter¬ 
fere with them. They often become crowded 
oa old trees, when it becomes necessary to 
thin them out, with the object of getting 
well ripened wood and fruit. 
GARDEN ENEMIES. 
2712. Black Currant Bud ftflite. 
I enclose some buds taken to-day from 
Black Currant bushes in my garden. I 
shall be much obliged if you w'll tell me 
if it is the work of the mite, and if so, how 
can I stop it? I saw your notice in The 
Gardening World, which I take regularly. 
(B. H. Thomas, Westmorland.) 
Your Black Currant bushes are unfortu¬ 
nately affected with the nnte. All those 
large, globular buds contain mites, and you 
should proceed at once to remove them from 
the bushes and burn them. If you do not 
care to waste the shoots, you could remove 
those big globular buds with a sharp knife. 
They swarm with the mite, and should be 
burned. The best remedy ; n a wholesale way 
that has yet been discovered ’s to dust the 
bushes once or twice during the' summer 
with .lime and sulphur at the rate of two 
parts of sulphur to one of lime. This serves 
to destroy the .mites, which charge from the 
old buds to the young odes some time dur¬ 
ing the course of the summer. If you de¬ 
stroy the big buds at once, you will get 
rid of most of the mites. 
SOILS AND MANURES . 
2713. Wood Shaving's in Manure. 
Please accept my thanks for your reply 
to my question re nitrate of potash. May ’I 
again encroach on your time and space by a 
further question ? In a recent number of 
The Gardening World you tell a corre¬ 
spondent that you do not tPke the presence of 
wood shavings in manure, and advise him 
to shake them out. This has troubled me 
somewhat, for I have dug into my ground a 
quantity of stable manure containing a pro¬ 
portion of wood shavings. I still have a 
large heap left, with which I intend to 
mulch Sweet Peas and culinary Peas. .Vs 
the shavings are-very-thin, In small pieces, 
and thoroughly ‘ incorporated with the 
manure, it will be impossible to shake'them 
out. Will it be harmful to use this mulch, 
and what harm will the shavings already in 
the ground do? I should like to know the 
remedy, if there be one, that will do no 
damage to the seeds or growing plants. 
Does not wood disintegrate like other vege¬ 
table matter when dug into the soil ? 
(E. A. B., Kent.) 
In our experience weed shavings do rot 
disintegrate so readily as other vegetable 
matter, and in that lies our most serious ob¬ 
jection to them. In the first place, the 
ground is difficult to dig with a spade, 
and, on the other hard, matter which takes 
a long time to decay in the ground fosters 
and encourages a. great variety of vermh. 
Some people would aver that it also causes 
the growth of fungi, which would be in¬ 
jurious to the plants' grown. We do rot 
quite harbour that idea, but object to the 
shavings on the score that they fake too 
long a time to become incorporated with the 
soil like farmyard manure.' In advising the 
correspondent you mention, we had in -view 
the fact that ids soil was of a gravelly 
character, whereas if yours is the staple of 
the .district it would be clay, and therefore 
quite different, [f the shavings are thin and 
m small pieces, then it.oannot cause any in¬ 
convenience in the matter of digging, and 
should sooner decay than some of the thick 
shavings we have seen. It 's entirely un¬ 
necessary, therefore, to apply any remedy, 
THE GAR DEN ING WO RLD _ March 21, 1908. 
26 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE. 
PLANTS, ROSES, SHRUBS 
ON APPROVAL, 6d. A LOT. 
MR. E. J. CASTLE. 
It is with much regret we learn of the 
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Hill Grove, Lyminge, S.O., Kent, at 11 
p.m. on Wednesday, the 4th. He was for 
some years sub-editor, under Mr. W. P. 
Wright, of “The Gardener” till his 
health broke down, and he was obliged 
to retire to some open and bracing dis¬ 
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to conduct his paper as formerly, he con¬ 
tinued to write- on various horticultural 
subjects, and his work on the “Amateur's 
Greenhouse” in The Gardening World 
was always to the point and met with 
much acceptance amongst readers, while 
no one ever found fault with his methods 
of treatment advocated in the cultivation 
of- plants. The cause of ill-health was 
consumption, and when he retired to the 
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above date at the age of 39. He leaves a 
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don. 
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