Excerpt from Lime-Sulphur Mixtures for the Summer Spraying of Orchards The factory - boiled lime - sulphur solution is a concentrated solution of practically the same composition as the homemade wash and is placed on the market as a substitute for the latter by several repu table firms. The home-boiled wash is troublesome to make and does not keep well owing to crystallization Of the sulphur, so that the pre pared wash, which keeps indefinitely and is ready to use when received, requiring only dilution with water, is becoming popular. There is some variation in the strength of the solutions made by different firms, but they usually contain 2l to 3 pounds of sulphur to each gallon and register 25° to 32° on the Baume hydrometer scale. 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.