FEBRUARY. 



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of the Daisy, — to place before you a weapon for its extirpation?"'' Yet 

 so it is : it may be thought inconsistency on my part ; be it so. I do 

 not desire its destruction every where, but I must counsel its com- 

 plete removal from lawns, and all portions of neatly kept grass. I 

 look upon a Daisy as one of the worst, perhaps the very worst, enemy 

 of a good grass-sward. 



1 only know of one method of eradicating this weed from a lawn, 

 and that is the use of a small instrument like a dock-fork in minia- 

 ture. This roots them out with ease when the ground is not too 

 dry ; it can be used readily by a woman or child. 



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I do not know any thing that spoils a good lawn so much, or 

 overpowers the grass so quickly, as the " wee, modest, crimson-tipped 

 flow'r." This fork will, at a very small expense, and w^ith little 

 amount of labour, supply the remedy. The dimensions and the plan 

 of it are given in the accompanying woodcut. Any persons looking 

 upon a lawn after it has been freed from the Daisy, though regret- 

 ting its untimely fate, may reap the benefit of Burns's moral ; or 

 they may be reminded of the final separation and rooting out of the 

 wicked from the righteous, of the unsullied scene of Heaven, where 

 nothing will be allowed to have a place which offendeth or deiileth. 



J. H. G. 



* Our correspondent sent us a very neat drawing of his fork, and the dimen- 

 sions of the several parts ; but we have used the above, which differs from it in 

 nothing essential, and which may be made by any village blacksmith. The 

 whole length of the iron part is about five inches, and that of the liandle nine 

 inches. It must be understood that we do not entirely concur with our aniiable 

 correspondent on one or two points. The destruction of birds, in our opinion, 

 becomes a duty when they are too numerous : the extirpation of slugs and snails 

 from our gardens should alwavs be enforced to the utmost. — En. 



