PART IL 



INSECTS IN THE GARDEN. 



SLUGS. 



Tear-slugs. 



This insect, wliicli plavs siicli sad havoc with pear- 

 trees, and sometimes with the foliage of plum and 

 cherrv-treeSj is destroyed in a variety of ways : 



1. Bv taking sliovels. and shovt^lling up the light 

 surface- c7?^5f of the soil around the tree, and throwing 

 np into the air over the tree, so that in falling it will 

 fall on the upper side of all the leaves of every tree 

 where the slug is eating. Tlie dust falling upon tlie 

 slugs stops all their pores and hreathing apparatus, and 

 in a few minutes or hours they will curl up and fall off 

 dead. 



Any description of fine dust, lime, or powder thrown 

 over them is sure death. The stirface-dust of the 

 earth is the cheapest, speediest, and most efficacious 

 remedy known. 



