HOW TO DESTROY IXSECTS. 



English gooseberries will bear heavy crops Trithout 

 sign of mildew. 



Wortns Oil Honey surTxle Tines. 



Try dusting v\ ith fresh lime or hellebore powder ) 

 otherwise hand-pickhig is the only remedy. 



Worms on JLawns, 



A good way to get rid of tliese is to take np tlie tnrf 

 and rela}' it on an inch of fine coal-ashes ; if the arass i> 

 weakly, spread a thin coating of good fine soil on the 

 ashes before laying the tnrf down. 



Maspherry and Currant Worms. 



Air-slacked lime is better than ashes, which are often 

 used. 



A single application of the lime has been sufficient to 

 rout a large army of worms. 



A gardener, setting his red and large grape currants 

 in alternate hills with tlie l)lack currant, was pleased 

 after trial of three years to fiiid neither infested witli 

 the currant-worm, the l)lack currant seeming to 

 prove a perfect preventive : whilst in otlier portions of 

 his garden, not so planted alternately, the red currants 

 were covered with the worms and were ntterly de- 

 stroyed. 



The peculinr odor of the leaf of tlie hla-'^-J: airrauth 

 particularly disagreeable to many of the insect tribe. 



