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"Will you permit a subscriber to the Horticulturist to trouble you with the question — How to 

 rid a garden of a worm which infests it ? A portion of my garden was filled in witli sandy loam 

 two years ago and since liberally manured. I now find it overrun with worms about three- 

 quarters of an inch long, whitish colored and having numerous feet. In stirring up the surface I 

 find abundance of what seem to be nests of them, containing clusters of 100 together. I believe 

 tliey are eating up all my Crocus and Pajony bulbs, and am afraid they will ruin the garden. I 

 find them also on my Asparagus bed. Can you suggest a remedy? I shall be extremely obliged 

 to you to do so. Wm. Brooks. — Little Falls, N. Y. 



The most effectual method known to us of ridding ca garden of these destructive grubs is 

 to have the ground thrown up into narrow ridges in the autumn, so as to expose it tlior- 

 ouglily to the frosts of winter ; also to apply a di-essing of warm lime, ashes, &c. These 

 operations must be repeated annually, and in every spadeful that is thrown up they should 

 be searched for and killed. 



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Inclosed is a piece of a shoot of the American Black Raspberry, which we cidti- 

 vate. On splitting it open, you will find it filled with the eggs of an insect. It 

 attacks the young shoots of our trees while they are growing, and punctures them 

 in rows, like the shoot before you. Our Peaches, Plums, Cherries, Climbing Eoscs, 

 Weeping Willows, and Raspberries, are attacked every summer. To the Willow 

 it is always fatal, the tree dying down to the point of attack. Please let us know 

 what it is and how to get rid of it. Koble S. Hammond. — Essex, Clin. Co., Mich. 



Cut off and burn all shoots like this, in which eggs have been deposited. 



I AM getting together a compost heap formed of swamp muck, barnyard and 

 stable manure, lime, ashes, (unleached,) and charcoal. The ashes are, perhaps, 

 one-fifth lime, as they come from the kiln ; the lime is air-slaked only when it goes 

 in the heap. I purpose having by August from six to seven hundred single cart 

 loads in the heap, which is to be used in planting an orchard in the fall and spring 

 (about twenty-seven acres) in Apples and Pears. Now what I wish to know is 

 whether it will be best to dig lioles four feet square and use the compost when 

 planting, or apply it to the surface, say in strips ten feet wide, where the trees 

 are to stand, and plow and trench plow in the month of September, so as to be 

 ready for planting in October and November; and whether it is a good plan to 

 use the lime ashes, as stated above, and what proportion ? I have been using 

 so far one-tenth. My land is good sandy loam on clay subsoil, yielding good 

 crops of wheat and corn. A Subscriber. — Frederick Co., Md. 



The materials of your compost are excellent, but it will be all the better 

 if at least (m^-Aa?/ be stable manure. Twenty-six one-horse cart loads to 

 the acre is a small allowance, and must be applied economically. It might 

 he as well to spread it on the strips intended for the rows of trees and 

 plow it in. The trees in this way will get as much as may be necessary 

 for two or three years, and after that they may receive top-dressing if they require it. 

 Manure should never be placed immediately on or about roots of trees at time of jilaut- 

 ing, but placed so near that their young roots will soon strike into it. We prefer to use lime 

 ashes as a top dressing, to mixing with manure. 



I have received from France a lihododendron Pontium. Is it very hardy in this climate, or 

 must it be covered in winter ? Must the Fastolff Raspberry be protected in winter in the same 

 way as the Red Antwerp ? A Subscribeb. — New York. 



"We would advise a slight protection for both, though in most seasons they might get 

 without it. The Rhododendron suffers most from sun in the winter. 



