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oheese-clotli tiieked on the outside. In suc-h a frame five eanliflowers and 

 two rows of radishes have been grown to perfection. Tlie frame was l^ept ou 

 from the time the young plants came up until the radishes were pulled. 



Cauliflowers were sutlicientl.y advanced to reipiire no further in-otection 

 and the frames were removed about the first of August. 



For Itadishes. — The maggot which attacks the radish is the same species 

 as also attacks cabbages and turnips, the severity of attack on these different 

 crops being about iu the order in which they are named, so that in years of 

 light attack radishes will draw off injury from the cabbages. 



Injuries to turnips are seldom severe, and In most instances a crop shows 

 little sign of this attack in autumn, even in seasons when the maggots nKi.v 

 have been found in considerable numbers in the spring. 



(1.) The Cook carbolic wash, consisting of one quart of soft soap, 

 or one pound of hard .soap, iu a gallon of water, with half a pint of crude 

 carbolic acid added, and the whole boiled together for a few minutes, to make 

 the stock emulsion, has proved over and over again an excellent remedy for 

 radish maggots. The stock emulsion can lie kept in :i i-losed vessel, so that 

 dust and rubbish will not fall into it, and. when reipiired for use, one part of 

 this mixture, by measure, is added to fifty of water, and should lie spra.ved 

 directly uijon the growing plants from the time the.v appear above tlie ground, 

 once a week until ready for the table. 



■,2.) White hellebore, dusted along the rows of radishes once a week from 

 the time they appear above the ground, has given good results in most years. 



From twri years' experience with tlie cheese-cloth coverings, I have no 

 hesitation in recommending these to amateur gardeners, however small their 

 gardens may be. as a sure means of obtaining perfectly clean, as well as 

 early radishes and cauliflowers of the very best (piality at a comparatively 

 light exiiense. 



For Beans and Corn. — Injury to these crops in Canada is a rare occur- 

 ence. The only remedy which can be suggested is to sow these crops in 

 good season in well jirepared soil aiul u. .t deeper than one or two inches. — 

 Fletcher. 



AYiKE-WoRMs (Lnrrw of Click-Beetles: ElatcriiUr). 



(Fig. 5S.) 

 Wireworms (7, 8, 9) ; pupa (10), enlarged; click beetles (D,i, natural size; (2, 3, 6) 



enlarged. — Curtis. 



