THE DEADORE CEDAR. 67 



Gardeners' Magazine." The quotation is as follows : — " I have de- 

 monstrated to my own satisfaction that the wire-worm may be pre- 

 vented by sowing the ground previously with white Mustard-setd. 

 On a field of 50 acres of fallow, half an acre was sown with wliite 

 Mustard-seed. The field was nmch subject to wire-worm, and when 

 it was laid down with Wheat after fallow, it suffered much, e.\cepting 

 the half acre that had been under white Mustard. In another field of 

 45 acres, 3 acres were laid down with white Mustard-seed, with the 

 same beneficial result as regarded the wire-worm, wliile, at the same 

 time, the crop of Wheat was better in that portion. Encouraged by 

 this success, I next year sowed a whole field of 42 acres, which had 

 never repaid me for 19 years, owing to the ravages of the wire-worm, 

 and not one of which could be found the following year. My crop 

 was superior to any I had grown for 21 years." The above Article 

 was written by Mr. Talland, Little Houghton, Northamptonshire, and 

 was inserted in the " Country Times,'' September, 1831, from which it 

 was copied into " Loudon's Gardeners' Magazine." I add another 

 quotation regarding wire-worm :— " At tiie last meeting of the Ento- 

 mological Society, Mr. Spence described a plan successfully adopted in 

 the west of England for the destruction of wire-worms, which had 

 greatly infested the Turnip-fields. He employed boys for picking 

 them up, at the rate of l^c/. per 100: in the course of a few days they 

 obtained upwards of 11,000, the expense of clearing one acre being 

 1/. 2s. 6d." See "Mark Lane Express" for January 8, 1838, 

 page 7. 



THE DEADORE CEDAR (Cedrus Deodara). 



RAISING SEEDLINGS. 

 BY A NURSERYMAN. 



In the spring of 1844 I obtained a portion of seeds of this pretty tree. 

 Learning it was customary to raise the seedlings in a hot-bed frame, 

 &c., but not having one at liberty, I ventured to sow the seed in a south 

 aspected border ; about the middle of May, I covered them an inch 

 deep with fine sifted soil. A fortnight after I gave them a little water, 

 using a fine rose, and once a week repeated it. Many of the plants 

 soon appeared, and in succession, for some weeks after. At the end of 

 September I took up all the strongest plants and potted them, placing 

 them in a cool frame for winter protection, and every one has succeeded 

 admirably. I therefore advise out-door raising of the seedlings. 



TO DESTROY RATS OR MICE. 



"I WAS advised," says a corres})ondent, " to cut cork into thin slices 

 and then fry them in fat, butter, or meat gravy ; the animals are very 

 fond of them and eat them greedily; placing tlie pieces for a repast, 

 the pests in a garden soon disappear. Of course the prepared pieces 

 must be secured from cats, dogs, &c., or they may fall a sacrifice 

 too. I was told, that to use brown paper fried in fat, &c., would 

 eftiect the same purpose as cork, I have not had occasion to try it since 

 obtaining information." 



