Half hours with insects . to our own resources, so feeblecompared with natures. The best remedy against plant liceis to fumigate the plant house with tobacco. Shirley Hib-bard says that the best fumigator is one with a revolvingfan, or a revolving cage containing the tobacco, by means ofwhich the smoke is blown out in a rapid, dense, killing cloud ;but an effectual instrument may be extemporized by knockinga liole in the side of a large flower pot, and then having putsome hot cinders and damp tobacco in it, the nozzle of abellows is placed against the hole, and ejection promoted bygentle puffi
Half hours with insects . to our own resources, so feeblecompared with natures. The best remedy against plant liceis to fumigate the plant house with tobacco. Shirley Hib-bard says that the best fumigator is one with a revolvingfan, or a revolving cage containing the tobacco, by means ofwhich the smoke is blown out in a rapid, dense, killing cloud ;but an effectual instrument may be extemporized by knockinga liole in the side of a large flower pot, and then having putsome hot cinders and damp tobacco in it, the nozzle of abellows is placed against the hole, and ejection promoted bygentle puffing, Drenching the leaves with a syringe orFig. 74. Fig.
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