E. S. Miller, Wading River, L. I., N. Y., says: "I was surprised that you never heard of the Dahlia stem borer. Twenty years ago it used to trouble me. It would bore out the stem when from six inches to a foot high. Of course the stem died, when the buds from below the borer's track would grow, making a much shorter season of bloom. I have not seen it late years, though I grow usually ½ to 1 acre of Dahlias".

And W. A. Manda, Botanic Gardens, Cambridge, Mass., adds the following: "The Dahlia stem borer you mention in your last Monthly, came to my notice in my early apprenticeship in Bohemia, and then again in Vienna, Austria, where it was even more destructive than in the former place. I have not seen anything of this enemy in this country yet, though we have something over five hundred Single Dahlias planted out this summer, some of which are really beautiful. In my native language we call this borer ' Skvor,' what would be the ' Earwig' in English.

" The best way to destroy this pest is to take a small flower pot, fill it with dry paper loosely about one-third of the pot, and then suspend inverted among the plants. They soon find this out as a good dry hiding place, and are easily caught by inspecting the pots early in the morning".