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Dunstan Times, Issue 1004, 15 July 1881, Page 2

To Df.stoy American 800 or Woor.t.r Aphis. Mr Speed, the aide gardener to the links of Devonshire at Chataworth, has furnished us with the following infallible remedy. Take a pint of gas tar and mix with it a pint of dry powdered clay. Form the whole into a paste by adding by degreea gallon of warm soft water. If this is aps plied with a brush daring winter it effectually destroys woolly aphis and, indeed, all insects, while it does not injure the .trees To Destroy Fed Spider.-For36years I have not been troubled with spider or mildew on my peach walls, but both pests have been very troublesome to my predecessor. After the trees have bean nailed I mix 61h of sulphur and tone it down with soot, and apply it on the wall with the syringe or engine. 1 put it on thickest at the bottom of the wall for the vapour from the sulphur to ascend amongst the foliage. After the fruit is set, on a fine sunny afternoon when the wall is still warm, 1 syringe with milkwarm water; the vapour will spread itself over the whole wall. Ido 1 this two or three times a week on fine days. Syringing the tender foliage of peach trees with cold water is a sad mistake, too often practised, 1 am sorry to say.—J.C., Falton-park Hardens.