The gardener's receipt book Author:William Jones Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Fumigating with Tobacco Smoke. There are various modes of employing the smoke of tobacco for the destruction of insect pests in plant-houses, but the best is ... more »as follows:— According to the size of the place to be fumigated, provide one or more pieces of cast-iron, one inch thick and three inches over. Make these red-hot, and place each in a twenty-four sized pot, and on them place as much tobacco as may be considered necessary to completely fill the house with smoke. An ordinary eight-light house will require three heaters, and one pound of tobacco, divided into three equal parts. If the tobacco is previously soaked in a strong solution of saltpetre, its ignition is more rapid and complete, and a less quantity suffices. The best fumigator is that known as Gidney's; it delivers the smoke rapidly iu dense volumes, and requiring no blowing, is not attended with any inconvenience to the operator, merely igniting, and then quitting the house being sufficient. Mealy Bug and Thrips—To destroy, Collect a quantity of young laurel shoots, bruise them between a mallet and stone, and put a bushel of them into a four-light pit; shut close for several hours, and give a little air. Or smoke with tobaccoseveral nights running, when the plants are dry; and next morning syringe over and under the leaves with soot-water, holding a pound of size in solution in four gallons of water. For strong hard-wooded plants have a size solution with a pound to the gallon, and daub the bug with a brush wherever he shows himself. Bulbs—To pack. Let them be quite ripe, pack them in perfectly dry river (not sea) sand, in a box; case this with another, filling the space between the two, which should be two or three inches wide, vith perfectly dry sawdust. Club, or Ambury. In old soils, all the cab...« less