CORRESPONDENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 29, 3 August 1933, Page 18

CORRESPONDENCE

• SPRAY FOR CABBAGES, ETC. "Lady Gardener."—Keiosene emulsion would be effective for .abbage fly. It would not be wise to use it except while the plants are young, otherwise it would be tasted. Tobacco dust sprinkled over the plants is good, alsospraying with "Black Leaf 40" or arsenate of lead. Permanganate of potash is sometimes called Condy's crystals. It is good for spraying broad beans to prevent "rust." There is no way to prevent rhubarb .from going to seed. It is.natural for all plants to produce seed to propagate their species. Rhubarb should •be planted in the richest soil available, which should be trenched thoroughly and have the manure well mixed to the bottom of the holes. Heavy dressings of manure should be applied as a mulch each season. ' Fowl manure is very good ±'or the purpose. ■ PLUM AND PEACH TREES. "Plum Tree."r—An article on the pruning of peach and plum trees appears in this issue. The work should be done at once. As to the best manure to use, this depends upon the soil to some extent. Superphosphate at the rate of one to two pounds per. tree, sprinkled well round and forked ;. in should be satisfactory. The roots of a tree will spread as far as the branches, and as the feeding roots are at the extremities, the manure should bo distributed well out from tho trunk. ~ MANURES TOR SMALL GARDENS. : N.W.S.—An article on the above will be given in next week's notes. HEDGE PLANTS, ETC. A.H.—Your inquiries will be answered next week. ; . v...-1.