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ed to tlie conservatory or parlor, where 
they will continue in flower a long period. 
A SURE REMEDY FOR THE CABBAGE 
Worm.— Samuel Wilson. — As the cabbage 
crop has lately brcome very much injured, 
and sometimes almost entirely destroyed, 
by that troublesome pest —The Green Cab¬ 
bage Worm — numerous and various rem¬ 
edies have been tried to destroy or keep 
away this injurious and destructive insect. 
After trying nearly everything we could 
think of without receiving much benefit 
we have adopted tlie following remedy 
which has proven a complete success when 
properly and timely applied: With four 
pounds of dry, fine, light wheat bran mix 
one-lialf pound of strong, finely-ground 
cayenne pepper. Then dilute one ounce 
of Carbolic acid (which can be had at any 
drugstore), with one quart of water; with 
this water thoroughly sprmkle and mix 
through the bran and pepper. Spread out 
thinly on a board or thick paper to dry. 
When thoroughly dried, put in a tight jar 
or box until used. With this preparation 
dust your cabbage plants in the morning 
while wet with dew. Commence when 
6 or 8 inches high, and repeat the operation 
twice a week uutil out of danger. Carbol¬ 
ic acid, although entirely harmless, is very 
unpleasant and injurious to the insect 
tribe. The butterfly or miller that lays the 
eggs from which the worm is hatched will 
not alight on the plant that has th« smell 
of the carbolic acid, and if any should hap¬ 
pen to alight long enough to lay an egg, 
the cayenne pepper will destroy the young 
grubs as soon as they begin to eat. This 
remedy is entirely harmless. 
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COCOANUT SQUASH. 
PERFECT GEM SQUASH. 
What to Do With Your Wild Oats. 
“A boy must sow his wild oats/’ In all 
the wide range of English maxims there is, 
perhaps, not one, take it all in all, worse 
than this. Look on it on what side you 
will, it is a bad one. “Whatsoever a man 
soweth,” be he young, or old oi # middle- 
aged, “that shall he also reap/’ So says 
the word of God. The one only thing to 
do with wild oats is to put them carefully 
into the hottest part of the fire, and get 
them burnt to ashes, every seed of them. 
If you sow them, no matter in what ground, 
up they will surely come, with long tough 
roots like couch grass, and luxuriant stalks 
and leaves—a crop which it turns one’s 
heart cold to think of. The devil, too, 
whose special crop they ar%, will see that 
they thrive, and you will have to reap 
them. No common reaping will get them 
out of the soil; it will have to be dug down 
deep, again and again—and well for you if, 
with all your care, you can make the 
ground sweet again before your dying day. 
ESSTX HYBRID SQUASH. 
