Farm and Garden.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 171, 8 July 1909, Page 4

Farm and Garden.

Spraying. o Now is the time to start spraying your orchard. If you have any scale, the trees should receive a dressing of lime and sulphur, though the mixture is very unpleasant to use owing ot its being so caustic, and likely to injure the hands. The hands should be greased- -waterproof for choice—and with care only a slight unpleasantness will be the result. Wc have seen the hands of the careless meet with dire results. If there is any tendency, to leafcurl in peaches; black spot on apples or pears, or any other fungoid disease at this season of the year there is little danger in using a solution of bluestone alone; but it will burn up the slightest sign of bud or leaf, and should for safety's sake be mixed with lime, and this makes a Bordeaux mixture. Any of the Government publications will give the prescriptions for the above.

To kill the weeds on the lawn there is nothing better than sulphate of ammonia; a pinch is d*ath to all weeds, and strange to say, it is a valuable manure for grass, though too much of it is detrimental.