GARDENING FOR LITTLE GIRLS 
jointed, brownish, wriggling worm, quite hard, you 
will know that he is one of the kind to be immedi- 
ately destroyed. 
These grubs and worms are the different kind of 
caterpillars,—the children,—of several varieties of 
moths that fly by night, the shining brown beetle 
that bumps against the ceiling on a summer even- 
ing, and the funny ‘‘snap-bug.’’ Crawling or fly- 
ing, young or old, parent or child, they generally 
do their worst after dark. Equal parts of soot and 
lime, well mixed, scattered in a four-inch ring 
around each stem on the top of the soil, will keep 
away the things that crawl, while white hellebore 
(a poison that must not get on little fingers,) dusted 
on the plants will keep off most of the things that 
fly. Rose bugs, however, seem to come in a class 
by themselves! Apparently, they don’t mind any 
of the well-known deterrents and about the only 
way to really get rid of them is to ‘‘go bugging,’’ 
which means knocking them off into a cup of kero- 
sene or a box where they can be killed. 
Caterpillars, naked or hairy, eat vegetation, and 
are consequently most unwelcome visitors. The 
sowbug or pill-bug, while disagreeable to look at, 
is not quite so injurious as often thought, but the 
mite called the red spider can do a lot of dam- 
age. Most of the beetles seriously injure the vege- 
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