Disastrous results sometimes overtake forced tomatoes and cucumbers and other plants, in consequence of galls or knots forming upon the roots. These knots are due to a minute true worm, or nematode, allied to the trichina. There is no remedy, but we can exercise care in excluding the pest. If the house is infested, remove all the earth and wash the benches with lye. Use earth from places where no root-galls have ever appeared. These worms prey upon many kinds of plants in the field.

A Little Ingenuity in garden tools saves money and makes good crops; you can often make tools that you cannot buy. Study to save the fingers and the back.

Transplanting may be safely done at all times, if the plants are puddled in cow-dung. The plants will start at once and outgrow others not treated in this manner. - S. B. D.

In Making Hot-Beds, get manure as nearly uniform in kind and age as possible. It should contain straw enough, so that when it is trod down it will not pack hard, but it should not contain so much that it will spring up under the feet. Manure from highly fed horses is best.