GARDENING FOR LITTLE GIRLS 



jointed, brownish, wriggling worm, quite hard, you 

 will know that he is one of the kind to be immedi- 

 ately destroyed. 



These grubs and worms are the different kind of 

 caterpillars, — the children, — of several varieties of 

 moths that fly by night, the shining brown beetle 

 that bumps against the ceiling on a summer even- 

 ing, and the funny snap-bug." Crawling or fly- 

 ing, young or old, parent or child, they generally 

 do their worst after dark. Equal parts of soot and 

 lime, well mixed, scattered in a four-inch ring 

 around each stem on the top of the soil, will keep 

 away the things that crawl, while white hellebore 

 (a poison that must not get on little fingers,) dusted 

 on the plants will keep off most of the things that 

 fly. Rose bugs, however, seem to come in a class 

 by themselves! Apparently, they don't mind any 

 of the well-known deterrents and about the only 

 way to really get rid of them is to ''go bugging,*^ 

 which means knocking them off into a cup of kero- 

 sene or a box where they can be killed. 



Caterpillars, naked or hairy, eat vegetation, and 

 are consequently most unwelcome visitors. The 

 Bowbug or pill-bug, while disagreeable to look at, 

 is not quite so injurious as often thought, but the 

 mite called the red spider can do a lot of dam- 

 age. Most of the beetles seriously injure the vege- 



96 



