GARDENING FOR ALL. 133 
Where an attack is apprehended, or the fly and its larve 
is already present, a free use should be made of soot, salt, 
and wood ashes; also lime may be used with care. The 
main point to observe is to destroy each maggot on its first 
appearance. 
BEET FLY. 
The same measures should be adopted tor this as for the 
celery fly, with the addition that a dressing of artificial 
manure, or a good application of liquid manure, will enable 
the beet or mangolds to outgrow the attack. 
CABBAGE FLY.—/Anthomyia brassicae). 
This fly deposits eggs in the stem of the young cabbage 
or cauliflower near the ground. The eggs are hatched in a 
few days, and the maggots eat their way into the centre of 
the young stem. Many of the plants die, some survive. 
Soot and lime in contact with the stem prevents the laying of 
the eggs. Earthing high up enables the plants to form fresh 
roots above the parts injured by the maggots (when the eggs 
have been deposited) if the injury is not soon fatal. When 
the presence of this fly is suspected (or known to actually 
exist) in the garden or neighbourhood, the plants ought to be 
often dusted with soot when they are in the seed-bed, as well 
as protected and helped in the way previously suggested 
when planted out. 
TURNIP-GALL WEEVIL.—/Ceutorrhynchus sulcicollis). 
The larve of this insect is a frequent cause of the wart- 
like excrescences found on the roots of turnips and cabbages. 
The female weevil pierces a hole in the root or stem of the 
turnip or cabbage, and deposits an egg in each hole. The 
eggs hatch in a few days, and the maggot feeds and lives in 
the root until fully grown, when they eat their way out, 
descend into the ground, and turn into chrysalids. 
Adopt same remedies as for the cabbage fly, and dip the 
roots of cabbages, &c., into a thin paste formed of cow manure, 
soot, and lime. 
ANBURY OR CLUBBING 
is caused by a fungus, and is best prevented by a long course 
of rotation—cropping and by a judicious use of gas-lime or 
quick-lime. 
