GETTING RID OF CUT WORMS 
N EARLY" every year my plants have been 
troubled with cut worms. In the morning 
I find the wilted shoots they have cut. A 
neighbor had me try poisoned lettuce leaves, but 
it did no good. Limited space allows me to grow 
hut few plants and I don’t like their being taken 
from me. Is there any way of trapping the worms ? 
Mrs. C. W. IE 
Often three or four cut worms may do considerable 
damage, so much so that one imagines there is an 
army of them. I'hey work during the night, and in 
the day time may be found at the base of the injured 
plant or of its neighbor, an inch or so below the 
soil. A few minutes search for a few mornings 
generally cleans them out. Push the soil away from 
the base of the plant and look keenly for them as they 
are generally similar m color to the soil. 
REPOTTING FERNS 
When is the best time to repot ferns ? 1 have 
some that are doing fairly well, hut have been in the 
same pots for a long time. I- C. H. 
Wait until towards spring when they will form new 
roots more readily. When the time comes secure 
some rotted sod containing plenty of fibrous grass 
roots adding some leaf mould and sand. Place 
plenty of broken crock at the bottom for drainage. 
Take the old hall out, and with a sharp stick pick out 
and remove a good deal of the soil at the top of the 
old hall, as well as at the sides and bottom. See 
that the new soil is firmly pressed in between the old 
ball and the sides of the pot, using a thin label for 
the purpose. 
GROWTNG CHIN.A. ASTERS 
Should China Asters he grown m the same place 
year after year ? S. E. P. 
No, a complete change of situation is advisable. 
I'ry to select a place where asters have not been 
grov\n for several years. If compelled to use the 
same soil, you can help matters by liming it. About 
two weeks before setting out the plants spread 
unslaked lime over the soil so as to make a layer 
about one inch thick. Let it lie a few days to slake, 
then dig it in, mixing it thoroughly with the soil. 
Sweet peas are also benefited by change of soil. 
Sometimes small gardens have but one situation to 
grow sweet peas in. When this is the case, dig out 
and carry away enough soil to cause a trench 
eighteen inches wide and deep, and refill from 
another part of the garden. 
SWEET PEA NOVELTIES 
I tried some of the sweet pea novelties last summer 
and was quite disappointed, many failing to come 
up. I never had any trouble with the old mixed 
kinds. H ave the new varieties any special methods 
necessary to success with them .? 
No and yes. The old mixed varieties were com¬ 
posed of those most easily raised, and thus naturally 
those of the most robust constitution. The new' 
varieties are almost as easily raised, the only care 
being not to sow the w hite seeded kind until the soil 
becomes somewhat dry and warm. Cold, wet-soil is 
fatal to them, causing rot and decay. 
VINES FOR A PERGOLA 
We have rented an elegant old Virginia home, 
built some seventy years ago, house right on street, 
running way back, four rooms deep, twenty feet 
square; side yard forty feet wide (v\ith an iron fence 
on side walk) to end of house, when it widens. From 
back porch there is a grape arbor in perfect condition, 
it must be some sixty feet long, and quite wide, brick 
paved walk through it, but not a vine of any descrip¬ 
tion. I see dead grape vine roots. I call it my per¬ 
gola. Please tell me what to plant to cover it 
completely. As it is so long, I did not know whether 
to have nothing but scarlet rambler or this, — plant 
four scarlet ramblers at the first two posts on each 
side, forming an archway, and then other roses the 
rest of the way. 1 want a beautiful shady walk. 
The whole thing is seen plainly from the street. Any 
and all suggestions will be.greatly appreciated. 1 his 
arbor ends at a building, which I want to entirely 
cover, except windows and doors. I thought to cover 
thi s with blue moon flower. Can you think of 
anything better ? Then the stable is near, oft' to 
one side, right in front of street. The lot is two 
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