. The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden. Gardening. FIG. G. warm enough to work easily, when a large number of wounds can be made secure in a short time. If fumigation be used, let the fumes of tobacco be weak, but continued for a couple of hours, in preference to a very strong application. Insecticides.—Boil 21b. of soft soap in two gallons of water; while still on the boil, and immediately it has been removed from the fire, add half a pint of paraffin nil and a quarter of a pound of flowers of sulphur. The black' sulphur is less unsightly than the
. The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden. Gardening. FIG. G. warm enough to work easily, when a large number of wounds can be made secure in a short time. If fumigation be used, let the fumes of tobacco be weak, but continued for a couple of hours, in preference to a very strong application. Insecticides.—Boil 21b. of soft soap in two gallons of water; while still on the boil, and immediately it has been removed from the fire, add half a pint of paraffin nil and a quarter of a pound of flowers of sulphur. The black' sulphur is less unsightly than the yellow, but not quite so destructive. Stir the w hole together and bottle off when cool. Before using, shake the bottle well, and then add half a pint of the solution to a gallon of soft water, applying with a syringe, and at a temperature of 7odeg. to 75deg. This is suitable to. all washes, but if red- spider and thrips are very preva- lent it may The sulphur be used a little stronger, deposit is left upon the foliage in a far more uniform manner, both above and below the foliage, than can possibly be the case by dusting, while the combination of these ingredients is deadly to all insects and mildew germs. For scale, the solution should be used direct from the bottle, but this must only be applied with the point of a stick or a small brush, letting a little come into contact with each full-grown insect. PRUNING.—No matter how well the Roses may have been grown during the previous summer and winter, satisfactory results cannot be expected if bad pruning is allowed. To prune all Roses upon one system would obviously be a. to A? A. 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 Cook, E. T. (Ernest Thomas), 1867-1915, ed. London, The Offices of "Country life" [etc. ]
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