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CALENDAR FOR APRIL. 
fry, which are either directly injurious or unsightly in a garden. 
The value of toads in houses, pits, and other plant structures 
infested with woodlice, are also w'ell known. In addition to 
these living helps, the old figure of four trap, and also a brick 
or pantile, supported by a thread between two sticks and baited 
with a pea or bean, will take many mice, especially the large 
field mice, which many cats will not kill. Pots, with a little hay 
or moss in them, bean-stalks, bamboos, and many other con¬ 
trivances, may also be resorted to towards autumn for entrapping 
earwigs; and they should be very plentifully distributed, as it 
must be borne in mind that the power of flight in these insects is 
very great, and, therefore, that no part of a plant is beyond their 
range. 
In the flower garden every exertion should be made to fill the 
beds with hardy annuals, and other early flowering plants from 
the reserve ground, as fast as the bulbs and other earliest flowering 
things begin to fade or look untidy. The stock of plants for the 
common display should also receive proper attention in watering 
and shifting into larger pots wTien necessary. Examine advanc¬ 
ing roses, and carefully pick out all caterpillars or grubs from 
the points of the young shoots, or few flowers will be obtained. 
Roll, sweep, attend to edgings, &c., keeping everything in the 
neatest possible trim. 
„ Carefully attend to the greenhouse plants as they advance in 
growth, removing some of the least valuable ones to any tem¬ 
porary shelter, in order to give the others proper room. Shift 
as requisite, supplying the plants more freely with water and air 
as the season advances. 
Similar directions apply to the stove and other plant struc¬ 
tures, where every means should be used to encourage a rapid 
development of the plants, especially the hard-wooded ones, in 
order that they may be at rest if possible early in autumn, so as 
to be well ripened off to meet the winter, and also to throw them 
into a more likely state to flower freely. This point should also 
be attended to with orchidaceous plants, whether the object is to 
increase the bulk by obtaining a second growth during the season, 
or to flower them strongly, which they are more likely to do if 
they are subjected to a period of perfect rest, which they all 
enjoy more or less, in their native places of growth. 
D. M. 
