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just after dark (where light wood is not convenient) will 

 attract and destroy immense numbers of moths and bee- 

 tles. Eolling the surface smooth when planted, destroys 

 the hiding places of many insects, and renders them less 

 destructive. Crush the beetle, the grub, or the leaf roller 

 under your foot, and you destroy a thousand enemies at 

 once, by preventing reproduction. 



When the plants are attacked, various remedies are re- 

 quired. 



Try the camphor preparation of E, B. in the Southern 

 Cultivator. Put into a barrel of water a quarter of a 

 pound of camphor, in pieces the size of a hickory nut, fill 

 with water and let it stand a day, and with this water your 

 plants, and fill the barrel for the next watering. The cam- 

 phor is slowly absorbed, and will last a long time. If the 

 camphor water is too weak, add to a barrel of water a cup- 

 ful or more of strong lye, and more will dissolve. Add also 

 a pound of cheap cape aloes to a gallon of lye (or water in 

 which a pound of saleratns or potash has been dissolved) ; 

 add a pint of this to a barrel of water, and use as the 

 camphor water. Camphor and aloes (especially the for- 

 mer) are offensive to most insects. 



Try also sprinkling the plants with ashes, air-slaked 

 lime, charcoal dust impregnated with the odor of oil tur- 

 pentine, soot, sulphur, or better still, Scotch snuff sifted on 

 the plants, by placing it in a tin cup, with the mouth cov- 

 ered with gauze, and shaking it when inverted over the 

 plants. Try also to drive away the insects. 



Watering them and the plants with an infusion of to- 

 bacco, or China berries, soapsuds, solutions of guano, oi 

 whale oil soap, when the latter can be obtained. Fumigat- 

 ing with sulphur and tobacco is very efficient. But tobacco 

 water is the great remedy. Watering with guano watei 



