WINTER WASHES FOR FRUIT TREES AND BUSHES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 201, 23 August 1905, Page 7

WINTER WASHES FOR FRUIT TREES AND BUSHES.

When the leaves are down, or nearly so. may be given to the question of washing fruit trees. It would -be Sac-mete "to state that a winter wash- ■ % will do away with ail Insect and funtroubles ia summer, for, unfcrtu--B|y_". It is not so: but lx may be savl with IWeet truth that attention giveti then is kipfsi through red-dug the Lambera of ™fr enemy. ••S_lc-_y-_i-iidins" is b,mg universally di_t.ou_ii"_ed by growsߣ It came in with a flourish of trumpets *«» years ago, and It is going out unby a solitary biare. Washing, *>w«_r, must not go with it, othewise the s«ny will itm riot. There are two disKj« types of wash in general use, one Sp, the softsoup a ad paraffin emuision, Jither the ' caustic soda aud peariash SiT 11 " '" Th * -oria-er should be broug-h, in- . when the principal euemies are mm moth aud American blight, the latJjjt wllea moss, li__i*»n, or other p_.r__d.t_s -r?"*£.the bark. The writer's method of the list is as follows:—Take a ■-7?, "!"-'■ enough, to hold 25 gallons of .. i^_ r ~ :;!:t l ':'•!■¥ wp may say that a paraffin > '-'3y,vu lv h.-. vi's -iVi's two capital tabs of suft.-j'i-p ia tm'.f a gallon, of g^?rJbr an t___r -trrring rppoiitedly: pour It.'iK'flrectly it is t.iken off the fire lj P' -af yetroleuir.. c-hnrn the mixture with * .d-g. -xujl It b__o__e, milky, ___d then

' : "■ ~~~- —r put it into tie. tn&. Aid 2* -salioiis -of vrater, churn again or stir. and. tite iv____ is reaay. It may be put on witt an ordlnarr is prepared In the way gea*~___y advised. 2t" war°r Ye S? ° f « Stt< - -»dito « aSte o „--5 t '; r ' * wood .a veasei, and Pjmrmg tHe Trater very on tte soda. rommerciai potash of some -eaters), mix. '° 4^t e Wltt t lO gallons of water. Wo .§£_« Zr 103 ' s _ rl6Jn ? example of the mcacy of this wash it Baa clekned some _r^n-/^ tttß „_f i h " u?h **<* *** been ped Vi P° Usl ied i) 7 hand. To make a 't~; f?~'\ f ? r tr follow Che oM __eutii=_ !'™ n \J " b o* iime and lib of soft--1 'rfrt f? H , ons of water do net I ad size, relying on softsoap for se -ti-in-cea i n -Ti, Utt!e In *^?TaI ' ?" ewers ' We tiled them all I-,,,, ? nd .. tuem ?°<>i--<"Cassell-s Popular Uardentcg." new edition.) -_»--«"