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Eel Worms. 



These are very troublesome to violets, because of minute 

 galls on the roots, which are readily overlooked; and the 

 same method of extermination holds here as elsewhere (see 

 "Tomatoes"). Care must be taken, however, not to start 

 the plants in soil infested with eel worms. 



