IN THE GARDEN. 



which, on subsequently opening, have a 

 most tattered appearance. When several 

 beetles attack a tree in this way, the tree 

 may die. 



Cleanliness in the plantation is the 

 secret of dealing with this beetle. All 

 refuse should be burnt and dying trees 

 and dead trees should be cut out and, if 

 badly infested with the pest, should be cut 

 up and burnt. Remedial measures of this 

 nature of course require to be carried 

 out throughout all the gardens of a 

 locality to be really effectual. If a 

 garden is properly cleared of the pest, it 

 will not of course be so subject to its 

 attacks as will a dirty, ill-kept one ; 

 but if the insect is allowed to increase 

 in large numbers in neighbouring dirty 

 gardens it is of course hopeless to expect 

 to keep it entirely out of, and therefore 

 from damaging, the well-kept garden. 



We have not quite finished with the 

 root-eating grubs. There is a little 

 brown, elongate, very hard and shining 

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