IpO NEW ZEALAND GARDENING. 



Thrip is one of the most troublesome of all garden 

 pests, destructive alike to melons, cucumbers, and green- 

 house plants. If once they are allowed to establish them- 

 selves in a house, they are with difficulty got rid of. 



Wire Worms are sometimes very destructive amongst 

 the Carnation, Picotee, and Pink plantations. They are, 

 however, easily trapped by placing slices of carrot or potato 

 an inch or so below the surface of the soil, close to the 

 plants attacked by them. Their presence may be detected 

 by the foliage turning yellow. They are easily seen when 

 turning the ground over, and should be picked out and 

 destroyed. 



Earth Worms. Ten pounds of slacked lime to thirty 

 gallons of water stirred up well together, and allowed to 

 stand for two or three days, will, when free from sediment, 

 form a liquid destructive to worms. Earth worms may be 

 banished from flower pots by plugging the drainage hole 

 with a cork, and then flood with lime water for a few hours, 

 this will drive them to the surface, when they should be 

 gathered and destroyed. Lime water must not be applied to 

 Rhododendrons, Azaleas, or Heaths. 



Slugs may be captured by laying slices of apples, 

 potatoes, or carrots amongst the pots : these should be 

 examined each morning, and the slugs found destroyed. 

 Cabbage leaves will also answer the same purpose. A 

 dusting of fresh-slacked lime applied late in the evening to 

 young growing crops once a week, will effectually destroy 

 these pests. Slugs deposit their eggs by hundreds below 

 the surface of the soil. A dressing of gas lime dug into the 

 soil early in the Spring, a month before it is required for 

 cropping, will destroy the larva. 



Wbodlice. These vermin, in frames, may be destroyed 

 in the following manner : Press the soil all round the 

 frame, and then pour boiling water where you have pressed. 

 The same pest in a greenhouse or conservatory, may be got 

 rid of by taking a boiled potato, and wrap it up in dry hay, 

 and put it in a flower-pot. Place this in one corner of your 

 frame, or wherever woodlice abound, and they will con- 

 gregate in it in great numbers. It should be examined 



