. Biggle orchard book [microform] : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket : gathered and packed into book form. Fruit-culture. partly filled with water. Next, slake the lime in a tub, and strain the milk of lime thus obtained into another receptacle. Now get someone to help you, and, with buckets, simultaneously pour the two liquids into the spray- ing barrel or tank. Lastly, add making Bordeaux sufficient water to make fifty gallons. (For making this mixture on a large scale, an elevated platform—with pipes, etc., as shown in cut—is very handy.) 'Tis safe to use this full- strength
. Biggle orchard book [microform] : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket : gathered and packed into book form. Fruit-culture. partly filled with water. Next, slake the lime in a tub, and strain the milk of lime thus obtained into another receptacle. Now get someone to help you, and, with buckets, simultaneously pour the two liquids into the spray- ing barrel or tank. Lastly, add making Bordeaux sufficient water to make fifty gallons. (For making this mixture on a large scale, an elevated platform—with pipes, etc., as shown in cut—is very handy.) 'Tis safe to use this full- strength Bordeaux on almost all foliage,—except on peach trees, Japanese plums, ami similar tender trees. For these it is wiser to use the following half-strength mix- ture : Half-strength Bordeaux : Two pounds of copper sul- phate, two pounds of quicklime, fifty gallons of water. Bordeaux Combined with Insect Poison.—By adding one-quarter pound of Paris green to each fifty gallons of either of the Bordeaux formulas, the mix- ture becomes a combined fungicide and insecticide. Or, instead of Paris green, add about two pounds of arsenate of lead (an excellent commercial form of this, called "Disparene," is for sale by seedsmen). The advantages of arsenate of lead, over Paris green, are, first, it is not apt to burn foliage even if used in rather excessive quantities ; and, second, it "sticks" to the foliage, etc., better and longer. I believe that it is the best form in which to use arsenical ELEVATED PLANT FOR MAKING BORDEAUX ON A LARGE SCALE. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Biggle, Jacob. Philadelphia : Wilmer Atkinson Co.
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