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glass instead of pots, but generally shade is preferred, 

 though often indulged in to an extreme. However 

 artificial the blooms may be which are thus protected, 

 they are far more beautiful both in sunny and stormy 

 weather than others which are not protected, as well 

 as being preserved from the depredations of the ear- 

 wigs. (Gard. Jount. 1845, 600.) 



No labour should be spared by the dahlia grower 

 in searching for these insects, and Mr. Glenny wisely 

 advises that it should be begun from the moment the 

 plants are out. Bean-stalks, small flower-pots, and 

 hollow tubes of any kind, should be placed close to 

 them w r hen they are first planted, and be examined 

 twice or three times a day. One earwig killed early 

 may prevent the plague of a whole brood ; and the 

 cultivator w T ho neglects the precaution because there 

 are so few, little thinks of the consequence of not 

 destroying the heads of families. In short, if this 

 early and apparently troublesome method be not per- 

 severed in, ten examinations per day will hardly keep 

 them down when the blooming time arrives. "When 

 the plants are small, the pots which the plants come 

 out of should, with a bit of moss put inside, be placed 

 on sticks a foot high ; bean-stalks, in six-inch lengths, 

 should be laid on the ground ; and every earwig trap- 

 ped at this early period is worth a hundred taken in 

 blooming time. Let a boy go round three or four 

 times a day, if there be any quantity ; but if you can 



