For some years my flowers, plants, grasses, and even trees have shown depredations by some insect or worm. After careful watching I found the depredators to be snails, a shelless kind, that forages at night and hides during the day. They have increased until I am in a fair way to be a complete victim. Last summer they went to the very tops of the highest plants, devouring flower, leaf and branch. Sweet peas, hollyhocks, pansies, grasses, almost everything is the object of attack. I notice that they have slimed the glass of cold-frames this open winter. What can I do to be rid of them ? - George P. Hunter, Warren, O.

[Snails are often destructive to many kinds of plants. They are usually worst in wet years. The common remedy or preventive is quicklime dusted over the ground and the plants. The application must be very frequently repeated to be effective. But wherever it can be used, some poison is best. Paris green and London purple sprayed upon the plants are to be recommended, or hellebore may be used. - Ed. Am. G].