A Use For Tomato Leaves.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 236, 7 January 1888, Page 4

A Use For Tomato Leaves.

I tlanxed a peach orchard, writes M. Sirey, of the Society- of Horticulture, and the trees grew well and strongly. They had just commenced to bud iwhen" they were invaded by the curculio, which insects were followed, as frequently happens, by ants." Having cut some tomatoes, the idea occurred, to me that by placing sbrao of- tho "leaves around the trunk and branches of the peach trees, I might pieserverthcm from the 'rays- of the sun, 'wj)ich are very powerful. My surprise was great,' upon the following dajr, to find' the' trees entirely % free'> from their enemies, not one remaining, 'except hdre and there where a"curied'<left£ prevented' the' tomato from exercising >*its* influence, -^l-hese leaves I ■carefully: * unrolled 1 'tipbn^theiii fresih ' one's' from the ' vines,' With "'tnei resulfc'" r of< ban r i§hing'JtihV last irieectf 1 tenablirigj'nth©' tre'es''«to^'g'row^wieH t; 'luicurianoe;* fishing 't'o^ah'y rB'til^r 8'til^ fnither ? 't^'v! experiment; 'ivr'at'er sbnie* ' leaAfessdf <the^tomafcbV <^ahd Ip'r'inkled^ this 1 infusion i- other I*'1 *' { "and" ora^ge^'^n'tfO^a^Wey^er^arsp^fre'er- > from -the inMnierable'inßect'sHvll^h s 'sufe^thaVhatf-I* use^the^ jgtttojß means with my melon patch I s'Hßuld* 1 jhavls ,mißb t with-thefsame result. -^-Charlotte ,Harbp»y v* u * -j "l> o te'vfcn**. «5