About two years ago I put into a thirty-two gallon cask twenty pounds of sulphur, with about three shovels full of lime, filling up the cask with water, using fully half of the solution at the time, for syringing Roses, <kc, that were effected with the mildew; the remainder had stood for three months, and had become very strong, assuming a deep red color. I had at this time a plant of the Epipkylwn tpeciotuci that was so badly affected with the white scale, that I had taken it out of the house two or three months previous to its undergoing the operation I am about to speak oŁ I may here remark that this plant was in a worse condition than any living plant I had ever seen. I picked it up one day with a view of taining the solution I thought I would try the opposite element; so I stirred up the ingredient and dropped the plant in, letting it remain about three hours. Daring this time the liquid had become clear, and the plant entirely coated with the sediment I took it out and put it on the stage in the greenhouse, and when it required water, I watered it with this solution in a clear state. In a very short time it began to show signs of returning life; the shrivelled parts began to swell out - the coating it got by its immersion falling off in flakes.

I now shifted it into a large pot, still continuing to water it with the sulphur water, until the fresh earth had become thoroughly impregnated with the sulphur. It now grew rapidly, and became as healthy a plant, and the green as beautiful, as I ever saw. This plant is now full of flowers, and has never been affected with the scale since. Having several large Cacti that were affected with the scale, and being too large to put in the cask, I gave them about five or six waterings with the same water, and they soon became perfectly clean. I then watered all the Cacti I had with the same water, whether clean or no. This is now, as I stated before, two years since. I have not used any sulphur water on any of them since that period, and on examination I find they are all clean and healthy. Therefore I have come to this conclusion, that if the soil the Cactus grows in, is impregnated with sulphur, the plant never will become affected with scale, for this reason: the sulphur is taken up by the roots, and is thoroughly disseminated through the plant, at the same time rendering the plant unwholesome to the scale.

Robert Meston. - Ashwoood, Tenn.

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