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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
March 13. 
SAYING CARROTS FROM THE WIRE-WORM.— 
NITRATE OF SODA AND PHOSPHATE OF LIME. 
“ Having, last year, almost completely failed in growing 
Carrots for table use, owing to the wire-worm, I should be 
obliged if you could inform me of some remedy. I have 
tried a mixture of salt and guano, administered in solution, 
without effect. My neighbours are in the same plight; one 
advises soot and salt; another, a strong solution of lime and 
water to be given to the Carrots when just above the 
ground; others, nitrate of soda and salt; others, phosphate of 
lime. Will you give me an answer in your next Cottage 
Gardener, with the quantity required ? 
“ I followed your directions with regard to niv Orchard, 
and ‘ hand-pulled ’ nearly all the nettles, but there is still a 
great quantity of fog or moss. Would yon inform me, if I 
put Superphosphate of lime as a top-dressing, what quantity 
per acre I should use ? Three acres is the size of the 
Orchard ; or whether you would advise nitrate of soda, and 
in what proportions ?—W. Harding Warner." 
[Ground much infested by the wire-worm should be forked 
over frequently, and submitted as often to the inspection of 
a party of Bantams. Rape Cake dug into the soil plentifully, 
and Rape Cake dust mixed with the seed and sown with it in 
the drills, is said to be efficacious in defeating the wire -worm. 
Of Nitrate of soda, one-hundred-weight-and-a-quarter ; or 
of Superphosphate of lime, four-hundred-weight, is enough for 
a top-dressing to an acre.] 
FROSTED POTATOES. 
“ Can any of your readers inform me if it is possible to 
extract the frost from my store of Potatoes, so as to remove 
that extreme sweetness which renders them so distasteful 
to the palate. I considered that a thick covering of fern and 
straw would have protected them ; but they have proved 
insufficient to stand the six weeks' siege so knowingly fore¬ 
told by your able aid, ‘ Frosty Beaton,’ as he will be hereafter 
called.—W. K. W." 
[We fear the sweetness is permanent. A chemical change 
takes place in a frosted Potato, its starch being partially 
converted into sugar. It is curious that starch is similarly 
rendered sweet by boiling in water acidulated with a little 
oil of vitrol.] 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
%* We request that no one will write to the departmental writers of 
Tiie Cottage Gardener. It gives them unjustifiable trouble and 
expense. All communications should be addressed “To the Editor of 
The Cottage Gardener, 2, Amen Corner , Paternoster Row , London.” 
White Worms in Pots (A Subscriber from the first). —These arise 
from the bones you employ. The worms will not injure your plants. 
The portraits are not published separately. 
Forming a Pit (A Young Beginner). —If you will refer to the indices 
of former volumes you will find very full directions. 
Liquorice Culture (A Subscriber, Alford).—In our No. 244 you 
will find full directions. 
Orcharding ( Clericus ).—We shall next week proceed to answer your 
queries seriatim. 
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