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pailful of boiling water. Take up a pot quietly, and quickly slioot 

 out its contents into the water. You clear away your enemies by 

 thousands in this way : there is no trap to equal a dirty pot filled 

 with dirty crocks, and dirty (but dry) moss. If there arises any 

 peculiar difficulty, such as a choice plant being eaten nightly, and 

 you cannot catch the marauder, take a slice of apple, and surround 

 it with dry moss, iu a flower-pot. Take also a slice of potato, and 

 use it in the same way. Place these two pots, one on each side of 

 your delicate subject, but at a distance of six inches or so, and at 

 dusk and daw'n turn out the contents of each pot quickly, and it will 

 be a strange thing if the marauder is not bagged. As for earwigs, 

 they may be trapped in the same way as wood-lice; but they like to 

 go up to their traps, while the wood-lice like to go down. At the 

 first opportunity that offers, I shall say a few more words on this 

 subject, and I am anxious for the opportunity to occur, because I 

 can give a grand rule for the destruction of the larvsD of the daddy 

 longlegs, which are likely to be in full force as soon as the eggs a.re 

 hatched, that the flies are now laying everywhere. 



Now, one word as to medicaments and nostrums. To despise 

 them is simply foolish, though I confess that we rarely use anything 

 in the way of washes and preparation. Three good things, however, 

 are always to be found in our garden. First in importance I place 

 the " London ground tobacco," which consists of tobacco and sulphur, 

 and is allowed by Grovernment to be sold duty free. Wherever a 

 powder can be used, this is certain and quick death to caterpillars, 

 green-fly — in fact, any soft-bodied vermin ; and it is so cheap that it 

 may be used in the kitchen-garden to clear caterpillars out of a plot 

 of cabbages instanter, and it is quite harmless to vegetation. The 

 next good thiug is " Fowler's Insecticide ;" this is used as a wash, 

 and is especially useful for syringing the undersides of the leaves of 

 plants. We have lately had to use it to clean a house of cucumbers, 

 and to remove American blight from apple-trees ; it was eftectual in 

 both cases — in fact, admirable. The third is the " Aphis wash " of 

 the City Soap Company. This we find an admirable thing, for roses 

 especially w'hen we can dip the shoots in it ; the aphides die instantly, 

 and not a leaf is soiled. As to the mode of mixing and applying 

 these things, directions are sent with them, and as to obtaining 

 them, seedsmen and druggists everywhere keep them, or should 

 do so. S. H. 



KEEPING A SMALL GEEENHOUSE GAT. 



N old Subscriber says, I should feel obliged for a little 

 assistance and advice respecting the management of my 

 small greenhouse next year. This season and last I had 

 it supplied with geraniums, petunias, and similar 

 things, but I should like a change another year, as 

 there is too much sameness between the plants in my greenhouse 

 and those in the flower-beds. I always make up a cucumber-bed 



