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deep into the earth, for both the sun’s rays and 
the slightest frost, acting upon them, shortly de- 
stroy them. 
The larsfer Worm, Lumbricus Terrestris com- 
monly called the Dew- Worm, and no doubt so called 
on account of its lodging on the surface of the ground 
in mild dewy weather, proves the most destructive 
of its genus, especially to small or seedling plants, 
or small young plants of any kind, by drawing 
them up by the I’oots, which they lodge in, and 
about their cells : they are also productive of much 
injury to garden w'alks, lawns, &c., by casting up 
the earth. When they happen to get admittance 
into gai-den pots they do incredible damage by 
dislodging and wasting such earth as the plant 
roots do not occupy, which must naturally deprive 
the plant of necessary support. The damage is 
done more in this way than by feeding' on the 
roots ; for, I believe, they do but little in that 
way. 
For the Destruction op Worms, — 
When they are numerous, at the time of digging, 
the digger should be provided with quick lime, or 
perhaps it would be better to have a boy in 
attendance : as the digger, or diggers, proceed 
in the trenching or digging the boy should spread 
a thin dusting of lime in every ti'ench, in such a 
manner as it would best fall upon the Worms ; or 
in place of the lime, a small portion of salt applied, 
so as to alight upon them, would prove effectual. 
It may not be improper here to remark, that it 
