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Excerpt from Fifth Session, Ninth Legislature of the Province of Ontario, Vol. 34: Session 1902 Crude petroleum should be applied with great care; it seems to be perfectly safe when used for apple trees. Which stand it better than any others, but is very dangerous for peach trees. I have never seen an apple tree which has been injured by it in this country in New Jersey some trees have been killed, but it was not the crude petroleum that was used. I have found better results from it than from whale-oil soap, and it has also the advantage of being cheaper. The combination of soap and oil is a remedy which requires to be worked out. I am doubtful about it at present but I believe that it will yet prove an excellent remedy when the right proportions have been ascertained by experiment. Fifteen per cent, crude petroleum with water kills the scale but endangers the tree 25 per cent. With 1 lb. Whale-oil soap and a gallon of water is effective and not injurious to the same extent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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