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Currant Worms and Rose Slug, How to Destroy with' Hellebore.
I. For the Currant Worm. —There are many persons who from the certainty of hellebore to destroy them, claim it the best remedy yet known. If to be used, the American Agriculturist tells us how to do it. It claims, also, that if used in this manner it is perfectly safe. As to the way of using it it says: " Place a table-spoonful of the powdered hellebore in a bowl; pour upon it a little boiling hot water; stir so as to wet every particle, then add more water, stir well and pour into a pail; then rinse the bowl and pour the washings into the pail, which is then to be filled with cold water. Thus prepared, the mixture is to be syringed over the bushes. Two, or at most three, applications will finish the worms, and it would be difficult to find a safer or more effective remeay. Success with this, as with all similar things, depends upon applying the remedy early. Those who will take the pains, and where there are but few bushes it is advisable to do so, can avoid much of the necessity of poisoning by destroying the eggs of the caterpillar. These are laid upon the underside of the lower leaves of the bushes, and the leaves themselves may be plucked and burned, or the eggs crushed between the thumb and finger. "
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