An Improved Dressing for Hop Plants, applicable to other Plants.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 29th Aug., 1893-Accepted, 30th Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Dressing for Hop Plants, applicable to other Plants.
We HENRY SHEARD BEAUMONT, Drysalter, and FRANK HAIGH, Drysalter,
and Dyer, both of Albert Ware Mills, Leeds Road, Huddersfield in the County of
York, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved wash, or dressing to be applied to hop
plants for the purpose of protecting such plants from the attacks of flies, lice, and
other insects, and from mould, or mildew, and comprises a combination of ingredients
to be mixed together in or about the following proportions
:-
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax, Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Dressing for Hop Plants, applicable to other Plants.
We HENRY SHEARD BEAUMONT Drysalter, and FRANK HAIGH, Drysalter
and Dyer, both of Albert Ware Mills Leeds Road, Huddersfield, in the
County of York, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to an improved wash or dressing to be applied to hop
plants, for the purpose of protecting such plants from the attacks of flies, lice and
other insects, and from mould or mildew, and applicable also to rose trees and other
plants and vines.
Such being the nature and object of our said invention, the following is a complete
description of same.
According to this invention, the improved wash, or dressing is made of the
following ingredients, in about the following proportions.
For what we will call the first liquid :-We boil one ton of chipped quassi bark
in about eighteen hundred gallons of water until all the strength or bitterness is
dissolved out of the bark, and continue the boiling until the eighteen hundred
gallons is evaporated down to three hundred gallons.
For what we will call the second liquid-We boil in twenty gallons of water,
about twenty pounds of sulphate of copper, two pounds of gum arabic, and fourteen
pounds of ordinary commercial tobacco juice. This liquid must be boiled and
prepared in a copper vessel.
The two liquids in the above proportions are to be thoroughly mixed together in
a wooden or copper vessel strained, and is then ready for storing in barrels or
other vessels.

page_text: We prefer that the dressing should be made from the above ingredients in about
the above mentioned proportions, but we do not limit ourselves to the exact propor-
tions and for treating delicate plants such as roses the wash is to be used in
lighter quantities, and the tobacco juice may be omitted altogether.
A quantity of water is to be added to the dressing, according to the purpose for
which it is to be used.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
The improved dressing consisting of a combination of the ingredients as herein
Dated this 23rd day of August 1893.
HENRY SHEARD BEAUMONT,
FRANK HAIGH,
By their Agent, Walter Brierley,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax, Agent for the Applicants.