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them, the florists put their stages OR legs, and surround 

 each leg with a circle of water contained in a dish which 

 is so constructed as to admit the leg through the middle 

 of it, seeing that the ear-wig is no swimmer. Others 

 make little things of paper like extinguishers, and put 

 them on the tops of the sticks to which the carnation - 

 stalks are tied. The ear-wigs commit their depredations 

 in the night, and they find these extinguishers most de- 

 lightful retreats from the angry eye of man and from 

 the burning rays of the sun. Take off the extinguishers, 

 however, in the morning, give them a rap over a basin 

 of water, and the enjoyments of the ear- wigs are put an 

 end to at once. They are very nasty things in fruit of 

 the stone kind, and particularly the apricot. They make 

 a way in at the foot-stalk of the fruit, get to the stone 

 and live there day and night j so that, when you open a 

 fine apricot, you frequently find its fine juice half- 

 poisoned by three or four of these nasty insects. As 

 soon, therefore, as the wall-fruit begins to change its 

 colour, the tree should be well furnished with extin- 

 guishers made of cartridge-paper, and able te resist a 

 shower. By great attention in this way you destroy 

 them all before the fruit be ripe enough for them to 

 enter. But, one great protection against all these creep- 

 ing things, is, to stir the ground very frequently along 

 the foot of the wall. That is their great place of resort j 

 and frequent stirring and making the ground very fine, 

 disturbs the peace of their numerous families, gives them 

 trouble, makes them uneasy, and finally harrasses them 

 to death. 



309. WASPS. These are enemies of another sort, 



