The Busy Woman s Garden Book 



lifting on the spade with plenty of soil adhering, 

 the roots were not disturbed in the least. 



Corn has so few enemies that it is scarcely 

 worth while to consider them, the principal one 

 being earworm — a small worm that eats out the 

 tip of the ear ; they can be poisoned by dropping 

 Paris green in the axils of the leaves when the 

 plants are young. 



CUCUMBERS 



For slicing for the table should be planted as 

 soon as the ground is warm or a few seed may be 

 planted on pieces of inverted sod, or in pots or 

 paper bands in the hotbed and transplanted into 

 the open ground about corn-planting time or 

 when the danger of frost is past; this will give 

 several weeks' start on outdoor planting and will 

 also make the plants practically immune from 

 attacks of the striped beetle. Settles will of 

 course appear, but by the time of their arrival the 

 plants will have attained sufficient size to with- 

 stand their attacks, particularly will this be the 

 case if protected with dry earth, sifted over the 



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