PART II. 



INSECTS IN THE GARDEN. 



SLUGS. 



Penr-sluffs. 



THIS insect, wnich plays such sad havoc wivh pear- 

 rees, and sometimes vrith the foliage of plum and 

 cherry-trees, is destroyed in a variety of ways : 

 * 1. By taking shovels, and shovelling up the Jignt 

 urfco&-dtut of the soil around the tree, and throwing' 

 up into the air over the tree, so that in falling it Avill 

 fall on the upper side of all the leaves of every ^ree 

 where the slug is eating. The dust falling upon the 

 slugs stop'" all their pores and breathing apparatus, and 

 in a lew minutes or hours they will curl up and fall off 

 dead. 



Any description of fine di.st, lime, or powder thrown 

 over them is sure death. The surface-d'ist of th. 

 earth is the ch^iest, speediest, nod most efficacious 

 Temedy knowt> 



