THE APPLE BLIGHT {APHIS LANIGERA).

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2050, 27 August 1885, Page 4

THE APPLE BLIGHT {APHIS LANIGERA).

Wk have the phn<-iiie of aiiKUiiicing tha .1 specific for that pest of pomologists — the woolly aphis — has been at last discovered. The credit of the di.scovety belongs to Mi Henty Stevenson, the wellknown ngiicultui.il agent, Queen street, Melbourne, "lio (dimmed the experiment which has been followed by Mich .1 satisfactory insult in his garden at Nuldiie, and which he is anxious te make known for the benefit of his fellow colonists and otheis. Mr Stevenson having been long conceincd with unmet ous chemical subitances used in {■oap making and other economical manufac tine*, h.is obtained an exact knowledge of their vauous properties, and as a natural consei|uence has been an expertineutei dining the wliole of 1)18 career. Among other things he found that potash, while beneficial to vegetables, was inluiious to inject life, and was led to apply it to the loots of his apple tiees in order to tebt whether the blight with which they weie infested would he affected thereby. He was also under the impiession that the potash would tend to incn'dsethe vigour of the trees, and, at any rate, enable them the better to resist the attacks of the insects, if the latter weie not destroyed. With the same views he added lime and bonedust to the potash, and gave the formula to Ihe Age of 12th May, 1883, in a letter headed "Malting Bailey," in which he remarks: — " I recommend the following re cipc for keeping off caterpillars and othei grubs, by destroying the get ms of these pest-* in the ground, and adding so much to the health and strength of the ceieals : — 1 cwt. of J-inch bones [or bonedust], I ewt. of potash, and 1 cwt. of lime to the acie Put the bones into a pit, add l.j to 2.) parts of water, and covei with htiaw or tutf for three or four d \ys, to cause fermentation of the gelatine of the bones ; then add the lime and potash, turning over and mixing properly, and sow at the same time that you sow the bailey (or wheat), and I'll vouch for the bcnerici.il results of this compound." Of this mixture a bucketful was taken, the soil was scraped away from the loots of the tiees some little distance around the boll, a few li.uiclfuta of tiie mixtuie applied, and covered with .-oil. In .about four months the trees showed an increase of vigour, and a diminution of the insects was noticed : but befoie the end of the ycai the whole of the insects were dead, as evidenced by a twig now before us, beating brge healthy leaves and large waits still white with the woolly hairs but no insects are discernible, s-o th.it the success of the e\pt l iinent is quite assured ; and it now only remains for pomologies to put the plan in practice, and the sooner the better; for though the insecticide would not be so readily absorbed by th'" roots in autumn as in spiing. theie is still suffijiciit growth in the trees to submit of some amount of benefit being deiived bcfoie the winter sets in. Mr Stevenson is of opinion that those substances would be efteacious in the case of Ph\l!o\eta as well a? of other insects; and as the I'lijlloxei.i is closely i elated to tin; Aphid, the piobability la that Irs opinion would be found to be coirect though it is to be hoped that theie will ne\ei be an oppoitunity of toting it in Victoria. We shall be glad to be informed of the results of any experiments that our readeis may make. — Mtlbjinne L'M'ler.

A Pkkuu.k for Sm Natii vmel M. dk Rothschild. — The Jewish Chronicle s.i ys : — Wu are enabled to make the highly important .iml gratifying announcement tint Her Majesty, on the tceommend ition ot Mr Gladstone, has gtaciously Higmtiud her intention to cieate Su N.itlianiel M de Rothschild a peer of the United Kingdom. Sir Nathaniel will assume the title of Lord Rothschild. Hh elevation to the House of Lords not only confeis porsonal honor on the recipient of the Queen's gueions f aour, but also sheds lustie upon the entire Jewish community. The citation of Ihe fiist Jewish peer in England is one of the most s guiticant of the acts of Mr Gladstone, to whose ad\oc,icy in i>fiit it was due that Bnon Rothschild, Sii Nathaniel's father, waseventnally enabled to sit in the Moube of Commons To Mr Gladstone, it will lie itmcmbeied, is ,iUo due the appointment of the late Sir George Jessel, fiist as Solicitor General, and subsequently as Master of the Rolls, By the Pailiampiitry Oaths Amendment Bill, which received the Royal assent on May Ist, 156(5. Lord Rothschild will he enabled to take his seat among the peon of England without any dilhcnlty in connection with the oath to be administered to him ; the proud distinction confiTicd upon the I'iesidi'iit of the United Synagogue and of the Jew*' Ficc School will give additional ulut to 'ho proceedings at the latter institution on •Sunday next. This annual gatheiing is held on a date chosen to commemorate the fist admis-ion of Jews to the Knglish Patliainent, and will now be made furthri • Memorable by tin 1 admission of a Jew to the House of Loids in Ihe person of Lord Roths. hild. The Bad and Worthless are nevei tnittatn/ or coniitt if< ifnl. This is espeeial'y true of a family medicine, ami it is positive pi oof that the remedy iiinfuftif is of the highest value. As soon aa it li.nl been tested and pioved by the whole wOlw 01 Id that Hop Bitters was the puiest, best and the most valuthle finuly medicine on euth, many imitations spiunj.' up and began to steal the notices in which the puss and the people of the country had expressed the meiits of H. B , and in cveiy way trying to induce sulFeiing invalids to use their stuff instead, expecting to make money on the credit anil good name of 11. B. Many others started nostrums put up in similar style to H. ]$„ w ith vaiiously devised names in whiih the word " Hop" or " Hops" \uie used in a way to induce people to believe they were the same a«s Hop Bitters. All such pretended remedies or cures, no matter what their .style or name is and especially those w ith the woul " Hop" or " Hops" m their name or in any way connected with them or their name, are imitations or counterfeits. Beware of them, 'louch none of them. Use nothing but genuine American Hop Bitteis, with a cluster of green Hops on the white label, and Dr Soule's name blown in the glass. Tiust nothing else. Druggists and Chemists are warned against dealing in imitations or counterfeits.