ees in any way. A dull day is to be preferred
for performing the work of washing, &c. As soon as all the foliage is
dropped off from the bushes or trees, they are to be again washed over
with the hand-engine, in order to clean them of all decayed leaves, and
other matters; for which purpose any sort of water will answer. The
surface of the earth, all about the roots of the bushes and trees, is
then to be well stirred, and a little hot lime again laid about them, to
destroy the ova or eggs of the insects. This mode of management has
never failed of success, in the course of six years' practice. It is
noticed, that the above quantity of prepared liquid will be sufficient
for about two acres of ground in this sort of plantation, and cost but
little in providing. The use of about a gallon of a mixture of equal
proportions of lime-water, chamber-ley, and soap-suds, with as much soot
as will give it the colour and consistence of dunghill drainings, to
each bush in the rows, applied by means of the rose of a watering-pot,
immediately as the ground between them is dug over, and left as rough as
possible, the whole being gone over in this way without treading or
poaching the land, has also been found highly successful by others. The
whole is then left in the above state until the winter frosts are fairly
past, when the ground between the rows and bushes are levelled, and
raked over in an even manner. By this means of practice, the bushes have
been constantly kept healthy, fruitful, and free from the annoyance of
insects. The bushes are to be first pruned, and dung used where
necessary. A solution of soft soap, mixed with an infusion of tobacco,
has likewise been applied with great use in destroying caterpillars, by
squirting it by the hand-syringe upon the bushes, while a little warm,
twice in the day. But some think that the only safety is in picking them
off the bushes, as they first appear, together with the lower leaves
which are eaten into holes: also, the paring, digging over, and
clearing the foul ground between the bushes, and treading and forcing
such foul surface parts into the bottoms of the trenches. Watering
cherry-trees with water prepared from quick-lime new burnt, and common
soda used in washing, in the proportion of a peck of the former and half
a pound of the latter to a hogshead of water, has been found successful
in destroying the green fly and the black vermin which infest such
trees. The water should stand up