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A Cure for Root-eating Grubs.—In January last 
you were kind enough to write to me in answer to my 
inquiry for a cure for the “ grub” that was eating up 
my Strawberry plants. I tried “ sulphur,” recom¬ 
mended by a correspondent of the Gardeners' Ckronicle f 
without any success, as we found the vermin alive and 
Well in the middle of the sulphured earth. As you 
requested me to write to you on the subject, I 
have now much pleasure in recommending a per¬ 
fect cure—viz., the copious application of quicklime 
—small doses are useless. I feared at first I had 
burned up my plants, but they recovered, and bare 
an abundant crop, and the grub seems annihilated. 
Messrs. Sutton & Sons, of Reading, suggested the 
remedy. A. F. 
Eriopsis biloba.—I suppose that Eriopsis biloba 
is not an easy plant to grow ; l have not often seen it 
in really good health. I have had two or three 
plants, which I bought as they were imported ; 
they all grew vigorously, and one or two flowered, 
but I lost one or two of them, and have now only 
one, which appears to be very healthy and to be 
growing stronger and more vigorous every year. 
The pseudobulbs of this plant seem to be very slow 
in forming and maturing, and in the plant that died 
the leaves spotted and the bulbs shrivelled and rotted 
in the winter. The roots do not seem so liable to rot 
as those of many Orchids. The plant which is 
thriving is grown in a shallow cork basket, which it 
has filled with roots, hung up close to the glass in a 
Cattleya-house, and without having much water given 
it at any time. It certainly, as Mr. Williams says, 
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