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removing a little earth from around the stem, put- 

 ting on the lime, and then replacing the soil. This 

 method, with dusting the roots of the Cabbage plants 

 with fine bone-flour before setting them in place, has 

 given me the best results. I will try them sepa- 

 rately and in connection next year, and will then be 

 a better judge as to which to give the credit. 



Th6re is no doubt in my mind but that lime does 

 check the insect ; for I have known many instances 

 where Cabbages have been grown ten or twelve years 

 in succession on lime-soils, and not a case of club- 

 root has occurred. 



Pierls rapcB. — Cabbage Worm. This insect, in- 

 troduced from Europe into Canada in 1857, made its 

 first appearance in New Jersey, and others of the 

 Middle States, as well as in some of the Southern 

 States, last year. But already its ravages on tlie 

 Cabbage and Turnip crops laave caused serious alarm 

 among those who cultivate these vegetables to any 

 extent. 



The worm is of a light-green color, large bod}', 

 and, when full-grown, three-fourths of an inch in 

 length. It eats the Cabbage-leaves witli an astound- 

 ing rapidity. Mr. Sprague, of Boston, has described, 

 in the American Entomologist, Vol. II., page 370, 

 a small beetle, which is probably parasitic on the 

 Anthomyia hrasslccB. 



These worms made their first appearance on our 

 Cabbage-field about the 27th of July. They ap- 

 peared so suddenly and in such numbers as to ren- 

 der it impossible to remove them by hand. One 

 woman in our neighborhood attempted it with her 



