TO PROTECT PLANTS.
A French newspaper states that if a little chloride of lime be placed on the soil, rats, mice, arid insects will,at once desert the part. Plants may be easily protected from insect plagues by simply brushing over their stems with a weak solution of chloride of lime, and it has often been noticed that the patch which has been treated in this way remains free from grubs, while the unprotected beds around are literally devastated. Fruit trees may be guarded from their attacks by attaching to the stems pieces of tow smeared with a mixture -of chloride of lime, and ants and grubs then in possession will,rapidly vacate their position.: . «
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Patea Mail, 30 June 1881, Page 4
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113TO PROTECT PLANTS. Patea Mail, 30 June 1881, Page 4
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