OF PLANTS 



Worms are seldom found in fresh, clean 

 soil. They are sometimes introduced in it by 

 the use of barnyard manure not old enough 

 to be thoroughly decayed. Often they breed 

 in the dregs of tea or coffee used as a mulch. 

 Avoid any and everything calculated to favor 

 their production. 



Angle or fish worms often work among pot- 

 plants, but I have never been able to see that 

 they do much harm. Doubtless the holes 

 which they make in the soil may sometimes 

 allow the water to run off so rapidly that it 

 does not have time to soak in properly, and 

 in this way plants may be injured through 

 their agency, but never, I think, by a direct 

 attack of the worms. Still, most persons 

 object to them. They can be driven out of 

 the soil by applying water containing spirits 

 of camphor. Use a tablespoonful of the 

 latter to five quarts of water. Apply a 

 quantity suflBcient to penetrate all the soil in 

 the pot. 



I have been told by many correspondents 

 that all kinds of worms can be expelled from 

 pots by sticking parlor matches, brimstone- 

 end down, into the soil about the plants — 

 five or six matches to a pot; also that a tea 



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