To make lime-sulphur take quick-lime, 20 pounds; ground sulphur, 15 pounds and water 30 gallons. Slake the lime with hot water in a large kettle, add the sulphur and stir well together. After the violent slaking subsides add more water and boil the mixture over a fire for at least one hour. After boiling sufficiently strain into the spray tank and dilute with water to the proper strength. If a steam boiler is available, this mixture may be prepared more easily on a large scale by cooking in barrels into which steam pipes are introduced. This mixture cannot be applied safely except during the winter when the trees are dormant. A large proportion of the lime-sulphur used in the State is purchased already prepared in more concentrated form.
Index
Fruit Growing.
Almond
Grafting on Peach
Pruning
Budding
and Grafting
Planting
Pollination
Roots for
Longevity
of
Seedlings
Do
Not Plant in Place
Stick-Tights
And
Peach
Apples
Shy-Bearing
Not on Quince
Stock
For
And
Alfalfa
Top Grafting
Mildew
on Seedlings
Pruning
Will
They Be Same Kind
Places for
Grafting
in Place
Resistant
Roots
For
Hot Place
Die-Back
of
Storage
of
Root-Grafts
Apricots
Pruning
Shy-Bearing
Propagation
Renewing
Old
Summer
Pruning
Bananas
In California
Berries
Pruning Himalayas
Hardiness
of Hybrids
With
Perfect Flowers
Pruning
Loganberries
Strawberry
Planting
Blackberries
for Drying
Planting
Bush Fruits
Strawberry
Plants
Strawberries
in Succession
Gooseberries,
Limitations of
Carobs
In California
Cherries
For Hot Place
Wild
Pruning
Training
Grafts
Restoring
Tress
Pollination
Citron
Curing
Citrus Fruit
Temperatures
Filbert
Roots
Filbert Growing
Figs
Stickers
No
Gopher-Proof Roots
Trays,
Cleaning
Fruit Trees
Depth of Soil
What
Slopes
and
Overflow
Roots
for
and
Sunburn
Budding
Starting
from Seed
Square
or Triangular Planting
Planting
on Clearings
Dipping
Roots of
Preparing
for Planting
Depth
of Planting
In
Wet Place
Cutting
Back at Planting
Branching
Young
Coal
Tar and Asphaltum
Regular
Bearing of