154 Select Carnations, Picotees, and Pinks. 
earwig (Forficula auricularia) sometimes attacks the 
flowers, eating the petals. More often it goes down 
the centre of the flower, hiding in the cup-shaped 
calyx, where it gnaws through the claw of the petals, 
allowing them to fall out. 
REMEDIES.—Where the grower finds evidence of 
damage to the flowers he should examine the calyx, 
probe it with a piece of wire, or shake the flower, and 
the culprit will generally be destroyed. Bean stalks 
or hollow pieces of bamboo should be stuck in the 
ground close to the flower stems, and large numbers 
will be caught if present. These traps should be 
examined every morning and the earwigs destroyed. 
EELWORM OF CARNATION. 
( Tylenchus devastatrix. ) 
1. Eggs with eelworms ready to hatch out. 
2. Eelworms liberated from eggs. 
Eetworms or Gout. 
For many years past gardeners in various parts of 
the country have been troubled with the plants sud- 
denly showing signs of distress and sometimes dying 
off wholesale, even in the case of Malmaison Carna- 
tions in pots. This disposes of the idea that the 
malady known as “ gout ” is due, in the first place, to 
sappy soft growth, and, secondly, to a sudden check 
to growth by cold weather. The outward evidence 
of the presence of the malady consists in pale or dis- 
coloured patches on the leaves near the surface of 
the ground. In most, or all cases it will be found 
that the tissue of the leaves 1s swarming with nema- 
