Worms are beneficial in all the compartments of the garden, acting as a kind of underdrainers, by their bur-rowings. To keep them from coming near the surface of lawns, it may be sprinkled with salt at the rate of five bushels per acre, three times a year, in spring, summer, and autumn. The most speedy destruction is brought upon them by dissolving two ounces of corrosive sublimate in every forty gallons of water, and applying this profusely on the grass infested. The worms come to the surface and may be destroyed by thousands. The sublimate is a virulent poison. Lime-water always must be an uncertain application, because even if the lime be fresh from the kiln, there is never any certainty of its being perfectly calcined, and every particle which remains combined with carbonic acid, is still chalk, and insoluble. The strength of lime water is consequently never uniform.

Worms should not be allowed to remain in garden pots, for they puddle the soil in so confined a space.