Mode of destroying Slugs among Cauli/lo'wers. .143 



In this manner, after being so long confined, they will grow 

 most luxuriantly. A common cucumber frame may be suc- 

 cessfully used in this way. 



I am, Sir, &c. 

 February 8. 1829. A Florist. 



Art. X. An effectual Mode of destroying Slugs among Cauli- 

 Jlovoers and Cabbages. By Mr. Henry Pike, Gardener at Wink- 

 field Park, Berkshire. 



Having had all the young cauliflowers and cabbages in my 

 garden devoured by the slugs, after I had repeatedly planted 

 them, and having tried every expedient recommended in your 

 valuable Magazine, such as salt, lime, and dibblfng holes round 

 the borders, and all having failed, I at last spread some well- 

 cut chaff round the young plants under hand-glasses, and some 

 round the outside of the glasses. The success has been com- 

 plete. The slugs in their attempt to reach the plant, find 

 themselves immediately enveloped in the chaff, which prevents 

 their moving, so that when I go in the morning to elevate the 

 glasses to give the plants air, I find hundreds of disabled slugs 

 round the outside of the glasses, which I take away, and de- 

 stroy. This mode of proceeding being so simple and so 

 effectual; I have thought it would be doing a public service to 

 let it be known through the channel of your Magazine, par- 

 ticularly as (from the mildness of the winter) the damage done 

 by the slugs has been so universal. 



I am Sir, &c. 

 WinJcfeld Park, Berks, Feb. 9. Henry Pike. 



Art. XL Abridged Communications. 



1 BEATMENT of American Shrubs in the Goldworth Nursery, 

 bij Mr. Donald, F.H.S. — For some years past, I have endea- 

 voured to inure American shi'ub§ to the common garden soil, 

 by transplanting them once a year ; and, every time, putting a 

 less quantity of peat earth ai'ound their roots. The result is, 

 that I have all the commoner sorts thriving in sandy loam. 

 Of those kinds that flower on the crowns or points of the shoots, 

 such as iJhododendron, Azalea, Ledum, &c., I cut down 



