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to catch the butterflies with an insect-catching net as 

 soon as they show themselves. This is the most effective 

 and quickest way to get rid of them. However, if that 

 has been neglected, the caterpillar can be destroyed by 

 dusting white hellebore on the Cabbages, but, of course, 

 this cannot be done when the heads are matured enough 

 to be ready to use, as the hellebore is to some extent poi- 

 sonous, though if used when the plants are about half 

 grown, it will do no harm, as the rains will have washed 

 it off sufficiently by the time they head up. The insects 

 here described are not, probably, all that afflict the Cab- 

 bage crop. A letter just received from a gentleman in 

 Montgomery, Alabama, says that the young Cabbage 

 plants in that region are often swept off in twenty-four 

 hours by a small green worm a species of slug or cater- 

 pillar, no doubt. The remedy for all such is white helle- 

 bore powder, which had better be dusted on the plants 

 once a week, as a preventive, before the insect makes its 

 appearance. In fact, all remedies against insects are best 

 used as preventives, or, at least, on their first appearance. 



But the insect enemies that attack the roots of the 

 Cabbage are not so easy to destroy. In fact, with the 

 Wire Worm and Callage Maggot we are almost helpless, as 

 far as my experience has gone. For the latter, which is 

 the worst enemy, a remedy has recently been recom- 

 mended to me which as yet I have not tested. It is to 

 make a hole with the dibber five or six inches deep, close 

 to each root, and drop into it nine or ten drops of bi- 

 sulphide of carbon, closing up the hole again. 



Last year the Cabbage and Cauliflower in our "trial 

 grounds " were attacked by the Cabbage maggot at the 

 roots early in May. A small handful of Peruvian guano 

 was at once strewn around each plant and hoed in around 

 the roots ; this at once started an unusual vigor of 

 growth, which sustained the plants until they matured 

 excellent heads. Understand, the guano did not injure 



