Hand-picking 



the case of Cyclamen, Begonia, Gloxinia, and the 

 like, dipping is an excellent treatment. The foliage 

 alone is dipped in a solution made by dissolving 

 in 1^ gallon of warm water a handful of soft soap into 

 which flowers of sulphur have been weU kneaded. 



IX. Hand-picking. — Where cabbages approaching 

 maturity are attacked by caterpUlars, or where the 

 attacks of the gooseberry sawfly or the magpie moth 

 caterpillars on gooseberries and currants have been 

 neglected until the fruit is nearly ready for use, hand- 

 picking is the only safe method to adopt. Surface 

 grubs (caterpillars that hide under ground and 

 feed on plants at night) are often best dealt with in 

 this way too. Early in the season, just after the 

 caterpillars of the cabbage white butterfly and the 

 gooseberry sawfly hatch out, they feed in companies 

 and may be collected and destroyed with Uttle 

 trouble. Several fruit-tree-feeding caterpillars form 

 webs to which they retire at night or in damp 

 weather, and these may readily be cut out from the 

 trees when the caterpillars are at home and the whole 

 colony destroyed. Leaf -rolling caterpillars may also 

 be dealt with best by hand-picking. Slugs and 

 snails are best dealt with by visiting their haunts 

 at night armed with a powerful light and a pair of 

 scissors, or a hat-pin, and a pail containing some salt 

 water or paraffin. 



Brushes may be obtained wherewith to remove 

 the hordes of greenflies that locate themselves upon 



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