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