ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Evening Star, Issue 21904, 15 December 1934, Page 29

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

“ Constant Reader.”—Spray your carrots, etc., with the following;—Mix 31b Bordeaux powder into ten gallons of water. Spray the plants when the sun has left them. “ Cherry Tree.”—lnstead of working in fowl manure around your cherry tree, which seems by your letter to be making far too much wood, next autumn work in around the roots a good dressing of limb (shell). Flowering cherries do not like too much manure—not fowl manure at any rate. “ W.F.”—There is still time to sow marrows, pumpkins, artichokes, and garlic, but it is too late for the other things mentioned. Yes, you can plant nasturtium (Golden Gleam), cuttings of gooseberries and currants from April. Cabbage seed pods if matured should be cut off from plants. Tie up in bundles and place in dry shed. Then when ripe beat out the seed. Hang up the bundles to dry. *‘W.M.” —The branch enclosed is from a peach tree, and Ijas leaf curl. Spray with the following:—Mix half a pint of lime and sulphur into four gallons of water. Spray the tr&j when the sun has gone from it. " “ Waitati.” —(1) If a fine dusting of burnt shell lime is shaken over the plants mentioned when the dew is falling after dark-the fine dust, will settle everywhere, and.will kill every slug and snail it touches, including the newlyhatched ones that otherwise escape attention. (2) Limo should always be worked into the ground, not allowed to remain on*the .surface, as the action of the air on lime forms it into calcium of lime, which ,becomes very hard and only fit for drainage of soil. Planting and sowing can be carried out,when lime is worked into the soil the day following. (3) 11b per square yard, 281 b per square rod,-or two tons per acre. (4) Yes, lime would, if used as you suggest, destroy germination. F.S.P.