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which earwigs abound. The earwigs will congregate in these, and may be 

 shaken out into boihng water and destroyed. Very small garden-pots con- 

 taining a little dry moss may be inverted on the top of a stick, and in this 

 way will form a good trap when placed among flowering plants. 



335. To destroy Slugs. — Of slugs there are several varieties, but the most 

 destructive in gardens are the small white and small black slugs, which bury 

 themselves in the ground or under leaves, and come out in the night-time to 

 feed. To destroy these, take fresh lime in a powdered state, put it into a coarse 

 bag, and after night-fall or before sunrise, dust the ground where slugs are 

 about : every slug touched with the smallest particle of the lime will die at once. 

 If the weather be wet, the power of the lime will soon be destroyed ; but if the 

 ground be strewed in the evening with fresh cabbage -leaves, the slugs will 

 hide under these, and may be destroyed in the morning. 



336. To prevent Snails crcmling wp walls, trees, d-c. — Make a thick paste 

 with hair-oil and soot, and daub the bottom of the wall with it : this will form 

 an effectual barrier, over which no snails will attempt to pass. 



337. Mice.— There appear to be three sorts of mice, all doing more or less 

 injury to gardens, — the common house mouse, and two descriptions of field 

 mice, the short- and long-tailed. They are all very destructive to newly-sown 

 peas and beans, also to crocuses and other bulbs. To preserve peas and 

 beans from injury by mice, let them be well saturated with a solution of bitter 

 aloes before they are sown, or, having soaked them in salad-oil, let them be 

 rolled in powdered resin, which will answer the same purpose. Chopped 

 farze, also, may with great advantage be placed in the drills over the seed. 

 The most effectual remedies, however, are poison and micetraps : of the 

 latter, that usually termed the figure-of-four trap, formed with three pieces of 

 stick and a tile, is perhaps the most simple and efficacious. 



338. Moles. — These troublesome intruders may be driven out of the garden 

 by placing the green leaves of the common elder in their subterranean paths, 

 for the smell of these is so offensive to them, that they will not come near it ; 

 or they may be poisoned by placing in their paths worms, which, for some 

 time, have been left in a place with a small quantity of carbonate of 

 barytes. 



339. Weeds and Moss on gravel walhs and in paved ^/arcZs.— Sprinkle the 

 walks and yards over with refuse salt, but be careful to keep the salt from 

 box-edging on the sides of the grass. This should be done in dewy or damp 

 weather, but not during rain. 



340. Fleming's machine may be described .as a lai-ge wrought-iron boiler, 

 fitted upon wheels, with a fireplace in the centre, for the purpose of heating 

 water to a boiling temperature. Connected with the boiler is a spring valve 

 and delivery-pipe, similar to those used in the common watering-carts, through 

 which boiling salt-water is delivered in a continuous and gentle shower, the 

 salt being mixed in the proportion of two pounds of salt to a gallon of water. 

 The same apparatus, in a more portable form, might, of course, be attached 

 to any wheelbarrow. At Trentham this contrivance is found to be very 



