LONDON PURPLE AND PARIS GREEN.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 325, 15 December 1888, Page 6

LONDON PURPLE AND PARIS GREEN.

-As certain fruit-groworsinthSrolonyai; a posseted with the delusion thab Ilieso arsenical compounds are nob efficacious against the codhn molh pest, we caunofc do better than continually add to the- mountain ol testimony wo huvo already adduced in thc&e columns in favour of thebe inreeticHes :-- The Societal y of the Illinois Horticultural Society .says that last spring he sprayed a large number of apple-trees with the arsenical poisons known as Paiis-green and Lon-don-purple. He did U a litt'c late, and only once, but thoroughly, with a hand force-pump, haying- a spraying nozzlo, and was agreeably surprised afterwards to find the trees loaded with a nearly perfect crop of apples, while trees close by, of the same varieties, which were not sprayed with the arsenical poisons, did hot give one porfect specimen — very few fi-uifcs of any kind. Some cavillers will perhaps say that he would nob have- had any mobh on those trees any how, for all we know, or povhnps the _ Secretary of the Illinois Horticultural Society published the above statement simply to deceive people, out of a lying spirit and innate cussedness.