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GARDENING. 



Aug. 



pick them for curing. They may last till 

 next month, though. Onion ground is 

 generally an excellent piece for strawber- 

 ries. 



Melons are slow in ripening, but look 

 well. Pull out the crab grass and big 

 weeds from among them. 



Parsley.— Thin out the summer sow- 

 ing and get the plants sturdy for winter. 



Splnach.— Keep up the supply by a 

 sowing once a fortnight. 



Potatoes.— After the early ones are 

 ripe and the haulms have died away the 

 tubers are better out of the ground than 

 in it, but let the late ones stay in the 

 rows as long as any of the stems keep 



Tomatoes are slow m ripening 



buti 



fruit is heavy. In wet weather like this 

 the fruit ripens and keeps better when 

 the vines are tied up to stakes or a trellis 

 than when allowed to sprawl on the 

 ground. 



Turnips.- Put in a big sowing this 

 month of white and yellow varieties for 

 winter use. South of New York the mid- 

 dle of the month is earl_y enough, lor we 

 dont want very big turnips. 



TflE CORN WORM. 



( HeUo this armigera ) . 



I send you to-day per express two ears 

 of early' sweet corn, taken from one of 

 several plantings made at Lake Como, 

 Wis., by Mr. Jas. P. Smith. Last year he 

 first observed a species of caterpillar in 

 the tops of a few ears of sweet com. This 

 year, in going through this patch of corn, 

 the earliest piece, I found them in each ear 

 that I opened, some very small, not over 

 half inch in length, and up to about 1% 

 to 11/2 inches long. They appear to com- 

 mence work in the silk, as though an egg 

 had been deposited there, and they then 

 work down to, and eat away a consider- 

 able part of the kernels on the upper third 

 of the ear. Wm. H. Chadwick. 



Chicago. 



It is the corn worm, known also as the 

 cotton or boll worm. It is very destruct- 

 ive to first-early and sometimes second- 

 early corn. We seldom find it in main 

 crop com, but it occasionally reappears 

 in latest corn. It has been referred to 

 several times in Gardening, and we can- 

 not do better than rewrite here what we 

 wrote in this journal July 1, last year, 

 page 316: "We await the coming of the 

 first mess of sweet corn about as anx- 

 iously as we do the first mess of straw- 

 berries, but how disgusting and disap- 

 pointing it is when we find that every ear 

 of the early corn is infested and chan- 

 nelled by the dirty looking larva; of the 

 corn worm. Just as soon as the corn 

 silks we look out for these worms. The 

 moth lays its eggs among the silk. In a 

 few days they hatch out and the young 

 larva- make their waj' to the ear, begin- 

 ning at the end of it. Then is the time to 

 catch them. We go over every car, open 

 it a little bit at the end to see if there-are 

 any worais in it, and kill them if there are. 

 With this care we get nice com; without 

 it the corn is practically destroyed. Any 

 hills missed are sure to be infested. 

 Tedious as it is, it is the onlv real 

 remedv." 



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