48 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
DESTRUCTION OF COCKROACHES. 
THE question of the destruction of cockroaches was mentioned at page 8 of 
your last issue. If your correspondent will purchase some of Chase’s beetle 
poison, and lay a few boluses about the haunts of the cockroaches, following 
it up for a time, he will soon find them disappear, and perhaps may not see 
a dead one. Of course, it is almost impossible to eradicate them altogether, 
but enough to make them perfectly harmless with a little perseverance ; in 
fact this is how we cleared them out here some years ago, and we have been 
troubled very little since. I may also state that no domestic animals will. 
touch it. 
Marlfield, TuHos. ARCHER. 
West Derby, 
Liverpool. 
I notice on page 8 an article dealing with the destruction of cockroaches, 
in which a correspondent desires to know the best way of getting rid of 
these pests. Having been troubled with them myself amongst the Orchids 
here, we were advised to try the “‘ Magic Paste” manufactured by Messrs. 
Penny, Hester & Co., of Dalston. We got a pot last November, and tried 
it, the result being that we are now seldom troubled by cockroaches, only 
an occasional one being seen. It is the best thing I have ever used, and 
can thoroughly recommend it to anyone pestered by cockroaches. It is 
also an excellent destroyer of rats and mice, as I have found dead ones after 
using the paste. I hope that this will be found useful to your correspondent. 
Ashlands, EpwarpD C. H. PIpsLey. 
Newchurch, 
Nr. Manchester. 
I can thoroughly recommend beetle-paste for cockroaches, which is 
easy to use and very efficacious. I tried it a month ago, when I had 
lost several blooms of Lelia anceps and Sophronitis grandiflora, which they 
seemed to find especially delicious. 
The paste was laid in Inmps on the small coal with which my stages 
are covered, and the next day we found several cockroaches lying dead 
on the ledges of the water troughs, which run under my hot-water pipes, 
having apparently been dried up by the poison. The only drawback to 
it is that it must be constantly renewed as it soon gets mouldy and then 
ceases to be palatable. 
High Bickington, A. M. BaRTON. 
__N. Devon. 
