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statement be true, it ought not to be neglected. Long stubble 
certainly harbours many injurious insects, and amongst them, 
it is believed, the turnip-beetle, which resorts to the long hollow 
straws for shelter during the winter.” 
" -Many other applications have been recommended, and 
amongst them spirits of tar and chloride of lime. One corres- 
pondent in the ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle’ says, ‘Spirits of tar is 
the most effectual remedy with which we are acquainted for 
destroying the Wireworm. VVe should therefore recommend 
any one to saturate some sand with that compound, and mix it 
with the soil in the beds of ranunculus and anemone when they 
are turned up in autumn,’” J. W. C., having lost his crops 
from Wireworms, also says, “Thinking that spirits of tar might 
do good, when I sowed dwarf French beans again, before cover- 
ing in the rows, I watered them with a strong solution of it; 
and the result was that they came up very strong and healthy, 
and the produce was enormous, whilst the first crop gradually 
dwindled away, and died a premature death.’” ‘The refuse 
lime of gas-works is stated to be efficacious in banishing these 
pests from the garden. Previously to the crop being planted, a 
thin covering of thelime should be spread over the ground, and 
it must be well mixed up with the soil in digging.’” F. H. B. 
“had been using some chloride-of-liine water, and poured it 
over some grass, when it immediately killed the worms. From 
this success he was induced to try it on some very sickly carna- 
tions infested with Wireworms, and had the satisfaction to find 
them recover rapidly. The proportion used was about a table- 
spoonful to a pint of water, but that of course must depend on 
the quality of the soil.’” It seems necessary to employ it with 
caution, in the flower garden at least; for in the same journal 
it is asserted, ‘ We have great doubts whether chloride of lime, 
although considerably diluted, would not be injurious to pico- 
tees, and commit as much havoc amongst them as the Wire- 
worm. We recommend you to spread some of the refuse lime 
from the gas-works over the surface of the bed, the efiluvia of 
which will probably drive them away.’” 
“As the Wireworms will live upon potatoes— as I can testify 
by having fed them on nothing else for many weeks together — 
there cannot be a better bait to catch them in the flower borders 
than slices of that tuber, as recommended by Sir Joseph Banks, 
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