44 HOW TO DESTROY INSECTS. 



find on the under side of your leaves little white specks 

 adhering' to the leaves. These I take to be the egg or 

 germ from which the insect is developed, and they must 

 all be washed off carefully. 



" MAY'S MIGNONETTE." 



Experiments with Salt and Sot Water. 



" Every season I have tried some new idea. One 

 season it was salt so I salteJ to death some very 

 flourishing carnations and roses. The recipe said a 

 teaspoonful of salt to a small pot. I tried it in a good- 

 sized one, and the leaves fell off from the plants or dried 

 upon the stems ; so I learned a lesson not to use salt. 

 Then lime-water was certain death to them. I think 

 the worms in my pots fed upon it, for they increased 

 daily. So I took the matter in hand, and turned boil- 

 ing water into the saucers of plants that were injured 

 by them. This made an end of all the tiny mites that 

 were in the saucers, and the roots sucked up the bottom 

 heat, and grew in grace and beauty. Then I 

 continued to give them a hot sud every morning, but 

 still the miserable crawlers luxuriated upon the roots 

 of my plants and covered the surface of the pot. So a 

 tablespoonful of warm not Iwt wood-ashes was spread 

 over the surface of the pots, and with a hair-pin they 

 were dug into the soil. They exercise a verv beneficial 

 effect upon the intruders, who could not enjoy a taste 

 of lye, while the roots of the plants were thankful for 



