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they had been exceedingly destructive, the solution, dry them and keep till
and by sweeping the grass with a hag- wanted. To fumigate, roil one of the
into a pipe like a cigar, leaving
net, like an angler's landing net, only | pieces
covered with canvas, immense numbers the hollow half an inch in diameter,
of the gnats might be taken and de-i which fill with tobacco, twist one end
stroyed." Gard. Chron.
TITHONIA tagetiflora. Stove
and stick it into the soil, light the other.
and it will burn gradually away for an
evergreen tree. Cuttings. Light rich hour or more."
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TOBACCO. Nicotiana, whether in
Tobacco smoke should not be admitted
to fruit trees when in bloom,
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the form of snuff, or its decoction in nor when the fruit is ripening, as it
water, or its smoke whilst burning, is imparts to them a flavour. See Fumi-
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very destructive to insects. gating.
Tobacco paper is paper saturated with Tobacco Water is usually made from
the decoction of tobacco, and when what is known as Tobacconists'' Liquor,
burnt emits a fume nearly as strong. It being a liquor expressed by them, and
is an easy mode of generating the full of ammonia and the acrid oil of the
smoke. Whenever plants are smoked plant. To every gallon of this add five
they should be done so on two follow- gallons of water. This mixture with
ing nights, and then be syringed the Read's garden syringe may be sprinkled
following morning. Mr. Cameron says, over the trees, putting it on with the
— " I have always found tobacco paper finest rose, and being carefiil to wet all
the most efficacious substance to fumi- the leaves. This operation is to be
gate with for destroying the aphis with- performed only in the hottest sunshine,
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out doing any injury to the plants ; if as the effect is then much greater than
the house is not filled too rapidly with when the weather is dull ; five gallons
smoke, and is allowed to reach the of liquor reduced as above stated,
glass, without coming in contact with cleanses seventeen peach and nectarine
any of the plants, it then descends as trees, averaging seventeen feet in
it cools, without doing any injury, length, and twelve in height. The
Plants fumigated in frames, or under black glutinous ap/i/s, provincially callhand-glasses,
are most liable to be in- ed blight, so destructive to the cherry
jured by the heat
done cautiously.
of the smoke, if not trees, and in fact every species of aphis,
There is a spurious is destroyed in the same way with equal
kind of tobacco paper sometimes offer- facility ; the grubs which
ed in spring by the tobacconists, appa- apricot, may be destroyed
attack the
almost inrently
made to meet the increased de- stantly by immersing the leaves infested
mand, and this kind of paper will bring in this liquor.
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the leaves off plants, without killing As the tobacconists' liquor cannot be
many of the aphides. It is of a lighter obtained always, tobacco water may be,
color than the genuine sort, and may in such case, made by pouring half a
be readily detected by the smell being gallon of boiling water upon one ounce
very different. Foliage should be per- of strong tobacco, and allowing it to refectly
dry when a house is fumigated, main until cold, and then strained.
and should not be syringed till next TOCOCA. Two species. Stove ever-
morning.
mediatelv
If plants are syringed im-
after fumigation, many ofj
;reen trees. Cuttings. Peat and loam.
TOCOYENA longiflora. Stove everthe
aphides will recover even where green shrub. Cuttings. Sandy peat and
they have dropped off the plants, a
fact which any one may soon prove
after fumigating a house." — Gard.
loam.
TODDALIA. Two species.
evergreen shrubs. Cuttings.
Stove
Loam,
Chron.
Another very simple mode of fum
peat, and sand.
TODEA. Two species. Ferns.
gating plants in frames, and under Green-house herbaceous perennials,
hand-glasses turned over them for the Division or seeds. Loam and peat,
purpose, is as follows:— "Dissolve a' TOLPIS. Five species. Hardy antablespoonful
of saltpetre in a pint of nuals. Seeds. Common soil,
water; take pieces of the coarsest' "TOMATO or Love-apple. This
plant is a native of South America, and
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brown paper, six inches wide, and ten
inches long, steep them thoroughly in
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perhaps of the West Indies j thence in-