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HYDRANGEA HORTENSIS. 
ARTICLE V.—TO DESTROY WOODLICE. 
Perhaps in cucumber or melon frames nothing is more destructive 
than woodlice. Confining a toad in the frame or pit is an effectual 
remedy for the evil, but many persons would think the cure as bad 
as the disease itself, for they would be unable to eat the produce, from 
the recollection that the toad might have touched them. One method 
pursued with success, is to make in the soil, close round the edges of 
the frame, a kind of hollow bason, about six inches wide, and to fill 
this up with short hay, to about the thickness of two inches. This, 
in the course of the first night, will become a place of retreat for 
them, and at about nine or ten o’clock in the morning, having 
opened the frame, pour upon this hay with a wide rose watering-pot, 
a considerable quantity of boiling-water. Then remove the hay and 
dead woodlice, and place a fresh supply of dry hay. Repeat this 
operation for two or three days, and you will see no more woodlice. 
Another system is to sink a pan, half full of water, in the soil, its 
rim being level with the surface, then to throw in a few slices of ripe 
fruit, and place a slate or piece of pot over it, leaving only sufficient 
room for the entrance of the depredators. Examine this every morn¬ 
ing, and destroy all such as are found therein. The pan may also 
be filled with hay, and pieces of fruit, such as apricct, &c. being laid 
in, they will quickly entice these depredators, which on removing 
you may destroy. Another very effectual method, is, to slice the 
tuberous roots of the Bryony (Brionia dioica) a well known plant, 
and very common in our hedges, and to put a few of these slices into 
a common feeder, covering them over with a little moss or short hay, 
and placing them in different parts of the beds. Take out the pans 
the next morning, and after having removed the moss and baits, cast 
the woodlice into boiling-water. Possibly no method will be found 
more effectual than the one noticed Vol. 1, page 16. 
ARTICLE VI. 
ON THE CULTURE OF THE HYDRANGEA IIORTENSIS. 
BY W. B. J. 
Those who adopt the method of Mr. Cruickshank, gardener to Sir 
George Beaumont, Coleorton, in the culture of this plant, will not 
fail to be amply rewarded by its success. The plan is to take cut- 
