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those small worms which are not wire worms, but are generated 

 in the bulb from disease or injury by frost or hail storms, and not 

 from a disposition of adhering to good flowers more than bad, but 

 owing to the finer sorts being more tender aud delicate, conse- 

 quently more liable to be attacked by disease, which may also be 

 occasioned by a portion of fresh manure coming into immediate 

 contact with the bulb ; yet I believe frost, in nine cases out of ten, 

 is the prevailing cause of disease, as one season I had nearly the 

 whole of my bed injured by it more or less, and the whole of the 

 injured bulbs were attacked by those small worms, and it was two 

 years before I could recover them ; many were completely de- 

 stroyed in the ground, and others went off after being taken up. 

 I this season had a bed laying east and west, which were all more 

 or less injured by a severe hail stonn in the latter part of April ; 

 whilst another north and south was not injured at all, though only 

 a walk sepai-ated the two beds ; the former on being taken up, were 

 many of them nearly wholly destroyed by hundreds of those ma- 

 rauders, and I have not the least shadow of a doubt of their being 

 attacked in consequence of theii" getting diseased by one or both of 

 the above causes; and as a preventative I should recommend a net 

 about half inch mash, to be thrown over the stage about the latter 

 part of April, as we have for the last three years had severe storms 

 of hail about this time, and suffer it to remain until 'tis necessary 

 to put on the main covering ; this will not injure the flowers or 

 weaken them, but may prevent a severe loss. I should also recom- 

 mend TuLiPA to use a rich maiden loamy soil, the soil from his 

 Ranunculus bed, or if he does not grow them, to use the soil from 

 his Carnation pots. They may be growii in the loom one year, 

 and the second year add one sixth dimg from the Cucumber bed, 

 and one sixth coarse sand. Vt . B . P. 



Hull, June I3lh, 1833. 



P.S. — I shall always feel a pleasure in contributing and giving 

 any answers to queries so far as I am enabled to do, and I hope 

 the above remarks will be useful to your Correspondent Tulipa, 

 but I have business to attend to, consequently much of my time is 

 taken up. I intend next month, if possible, giving an account of 

 my treatment of the Ranunculus this season, with the result. 



[Note.— Wo shall be gratofiil for the promised favour of our respected Cor- 

 respondent. — CONDCCTOR.] 



