GAEDENING FOR LITTLE GIRLS 



Here indeed Eternal vigilance is the price of 

 liberty. If you would be free and escape such 

 ravages, you can not wait until your foes are full- 

 fledged and hard at work, because usually consid- 

 erable damage has then been done. Instead, you 

 should learn at the time you begin gardening all 

 about the many difficulties you have to contend 

 with, including the various things that prey upon 

 your plants. 



When you plant seed, for instance, and it fails 

 to come up, you are apt to blame either the dealer 

 or the weather man. Just as likely as not, though, 

 some insect had attacked the seed before it was 

 planted, or else the grubs got busy and enjoyed a 

 full meal. These pests, vnth their various relations, 

 are the most difficult of all to control, but pois- 

 oned bait (freshly cut clover that has been sprayed 

 with Paris green,) scattered on the ground where 

 cut worms come out at night to feed, will destroy 

 many of them. When your plants have begun to 

 grow, however, and you find them being nipped 

 off close to the ground, dig close to the stem and 

 you will probably bring to light a cut worm curled 

 up in his favorite position, and you can end him 

 then and there from doing further damage. The 

 wire worm, on the contrary, works entirely below 

 the surface, and when you spade up a long, slender, 



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