. The book of the garden. Gardening. 70 CULINARY OR KITCHEN GARDEN. than good in this. Rooks and moles are also very serviceable in keeping down this pest of the garden and the field. Spirit of tar, dug into the ground, at the rate of 1 gallon to 50 square yards, has been with us a satisfactory remedy ; and to render the liquid more divisible, we ab- sorb it in dry sand, or dry finely-sifted coal- ashes, and then sow the ground with it. The refuse lime of gas-works, which contains in gene- ral a considerable amount of impure sulphuret of lime, or lime combined loosely with sul- phuretted hydro
. The book of the garden. Gardening. 70 CULINARY OR KITCHEN GARDEN. than good in this. Rooks and moles are also very serviceable in keeping down this pest of the garden and the field. Spirit of tar, dug into the ground, at the rate of 1 gallon to 50 square yards, has been with us a satisfactory remedy ; and to render the liquid more divisible, we ab- sorb it in dry sand, or dry finely-sifted coal- ashes, and then sow the ground with it. The refuse lime of gas-works, which contains in gene- ral a considerable amount of impure sulphuret of lime, or lime combined loosely with sul- phuretted hydrogen—a gas the most deleterious of all others to animal life—has been employed with singular effect also. The mole lives chiefly on the wire-worm for a great portion of the year. In cold wet seasons the wire-worm is most destructive. And, in fact, where ground is overrun with wire-worm, it is not a bad way of clearing it, to sow old seed of beans in drills, and to take them up after the first week once every two or three days, when the beans will be found thickly perforated by the insects, which may be destroyed and the beans re-sown again. The gamma moth (Plusia gamma of some naturalists, Noctua gamma of others), fig, 20. Fig. THE GAMMA MOTH. This very pretty moth may be described as having beautiful glossy greyish-coloured upper wings, marbled with brown, having a slight metallic shade; about the middle of each is a gold shining mark, resembling the Greek letter y, from which circumstance it derives its name; the under wings are of a pale ash-colour with a brown edge; the head and collar purplish- brown, margined with grey lines; abdomen yellowish-grey, having elevated tufts of hairs. The caterpillar is green, with several short single hairs interspersed over it ; four small whitish-yellow lines down its back, and a broad yellow stripe along each side; head brownish green; furnished with twelve feet—two behind, four abdominal, and six fore-feet. The female deposits
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