INSECTS. 



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Ere cauglit by placing pieces of cabbage and turnip leaves 

 in their way, on wbicb tbey will be found collected, 

 and may be thrown into the fire. 



Cut-ivorm, or black grub. There are several varieties 

 of these, differing somewhat in color — the progeny of dif- 

 ferent beetles. The common variety is ash-colored with 

 a dark stripe on the back. When full-grown they are an 

 inch and a-half long and the size of a large quill. They 

 hide in the ground in hot sunny days, but come out at night 

 to eat of the tender stems of young plants. They are 

 much more destructive in warm, wet seasons. The only 

 remedy when they once appear is to examine the beds 

 every morning, when by digging near the plants cut off 

 you will generally find the destroyer. Choice plants may 

 be transplanted in trenches, as directed under the article 

 Cabbage, or protected by wrapping their stems in paper 

 when transplanted. Salt or lime will not kill them in the 

 spring, but if salt be applied in the fall broadcast they 

 do not appear the ensuing summer. 



I have found it so one year at least in adjacent gardens ; 

 the one salted was free from the grub, while in the other 

 it was very destructive. 



Cucumber and Squash Bugs resemble each other except 

 in color. If very troublesome, the plants may be sown 

 under boxes covered with millinet which will prevent 

 access to the plants. 



The Curculio. — This is a small brownish beetle about 

 a quarter of an inch long, and deposits its egg in a 

 semi-circular incision that it makes in stone fruit, which 

 hatches and eats its way into the young fruit, causing it to 

 fall prematurely. It attacks all stone fruits, but especially 

 apricots, nectarines and plums. It is not so destructive 

 in clayey or hard soils. The remedies that have hitherto 

 proved successful, are to pave the ground so that the grub 



