LL subscribers are requested to contribute short articles to 

 ^ ^ Our Garden Forum relative to their garden experiences, 

 ^^^^^ successes and difficulties, and matters of interest pertaining 

 \K y to unusual garden conditions, the whims of flowers, etc. 



My Dear Editor: 



In the June number of "Our Garden Journal" Elizabeth, in 

 her German Garden, says : "Who am I that I should do battle with 

 a thrip?" I was telling a friend of mine of the rose spray to rout 

 the enemies of the rose garden (June number of our Garden Jour- 

 nal), and which I have found most successful in results. My friend 

 was from Bermuda, and the conversation naturally turned from 

 bugs to beautiful gardens, and then on prolific potatoes and onions. 

 This was startling, for I had never heard of "Bermuda Bugs." 

 The Fruit Fly, Fire-worm, and the thousand and one species of 

 blight were unknown to me. My friend waxed enthusiastic in his 

 turn. 



" We have bugs for everything except potatoes and onions," 

 he said. " Why those exceptions?" I asked. "It is believed," my 

 friend replied profoundly, " that the bugs were imported from the 

 States, but knowing that Bermuda exists on the exportation of 

 these vegetables, they turned their attention to the articles in- 



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