TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 95, 21 April 1894, Page 3 (Supplement)

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

nriTBW(J. F.)—There is no permanent cure "/nrcieal bug. All that nnyono can do is to JSniinually use (ho different mixtures whioh Set) it under. The saino remarks will apply ♦n all otiier insects, as most of them when SJiven off any set of plaats will take up their Siafters in the soil, from where they will »am reappear on the first favourable opporwuity From what you say in your letter tour garden rau3t beini'ested with nearly all te Insect pests ■which are so rife in our gardens. Your soil must be of a hot Srr nature, aa in such the numerous insect Snatt seem to flouriah most. Try and keep Fu 0 aolt as moist as possible during the dry father and use the following frequently: fine gallon of kerosene mixed with half a oallon of cow's milk (fresh or sour milk will Sol- emulsify those by constant agitation until tho compound has the appearance of thin butter. Dilute one nint of this mixture with one and a-balf Sillon of water, adding the water gradually and stirring till all is thoroughly mixed. Svrlnge your plants with the above frequently »idit will greatly assist in keeping the pesta nnder. You could also syringe tree toma.toes above mixture. Trie Tomato ('Amateur'}.—You could not now a better plant so as to obtain fresh fruit during the wintei-. 1 have about half a dozen slants, and last winter they kept us well supnlied with a large quantity of fruit. This season the same plants hare already yielded m ionae hundreds of fine fruit, and there is Sill a fine lot of unripened fruit on the plants. The fruit, besides being first-class eaiing, is also capital for making preserTes. Ido not know whore you can procure young plants, bntlhavonottho slightest doubt that if you -nply to the Auckland nurserymen you will Mtplants. There were any number solu in foemarkets last winter.

Piss? (B.B.)—From your old plants you could easily strike cuttings, now. Take about three inches off the end of the shoots, and cut the leaves off the butt end of the cutting; dribble thoso in rich, sandy soil in a seed mn; water and place in a cool, shady part of thehouet). Outtinga strike easily now, and [hould make strong, healthy planta for putting oiU early next spring. Seed should Jowbe sown in pans, and planted in a cool. shady place, and kept moist. Cuttings and seedlings could with ease be raised out in the tpen, but you would bs liable to serious loss from the slugs during the winter months,