THE CARNATION. 



injury. A weak infusion of lime-water and sulphur 

 may also be used in a clarified state. 



THE EAR -WIG. 



OF all the enemies that the Carnation has to en- 

 counter, the ear-wig is the most troublesome and 

 destructive. It attacks that part of the flower which 

 is called the nectarium, and eats the petals through 

 just at their root ; if it be not sufficiently open to 

 admit its descent down the corolla, it will eat its way 

 to it through the outside of the calix. 



There is no entire preventive,, but the most effec- 

 tual method is, to support your stage upon legs, 

 placed in cast-iron pans, about six inches deep, filled 

 with water. Bean-stalks, cut into lengths of six or 

 eight inches, may be set as traps round the stage, 

 and close to the stems of the flower, which should be 

 examined every morning at least, and the ear-wigs 

 blown out into a bottle of water. 



Bowls of tobacco-pipes, or the claws of lobsters, 



