Cleanliness 



weevil, both of which feed on young plants, in the 

 first case of all kinds of plants belonging to the 

 cabbage family, including wallflowers and stocks, 

 and also on mignonette, etc., and in the second 

 especially on the two plants mentioned. 



III. Cleanliness. — The prompt removal of all 

 refuse and its proper disposal either by composting, 

 burial, or burning are great aids. This applies to 

 all parts of the gairden, and to trees as well as to 

 herbaceous plants. Woody parts should be burned, 

 soft parts, imless diseased, composted or used as 

 green manure. 



Hedge bottoms and banks, rough grass, and so on, 

 should also be attended to, for in such places as these 

 many pests hibernate; e.g. turnip flea beetles, weevils, 

 and the like, as well as woodlice, slugs, and other 

 pests not insects. Stones, bricks, and such plants 

 as thrift used as edgings to beds are frequently 

 harbours for pests and as such need particular 

 attention, and under stones the jeUy-hke eggs of 

 slugs and snails are frequently to be found. 



Crevices in walls of greenhouses and upon which 

 trees are trained often serv§ as hiding-places for 

 various pests. They should be reduced to a mini- 

 mum by pointing, and where necessary painted or 

 whitewashed at intervals. 



All loose bark should be removed from vines 

 during the winter. 



Walls and fences around gardens often form 

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