A reader, New Jersey, says : " I send enclosed in this a sample of worm that is very troublesome to me in the greenhouse, on the benches covered with soil. It destroys the roots of plants in pots, particularly geraniums. Thinking that you might possibly know of a remedy I address you. I have been an interested reader of your Monthly for over two years, and have in that time been repaid, ten times over, the price paid for it, and would not now do without it if it were to be obtained at any price within reach of a gardener".

[The creatures were small centipedes, and are not known to be specially injurious to vegetation. They make trouble sometimes by keeping soil disturbed. Watering with clear lime-water will get rid of them, and be no injury to the plants. - Ed. G. M].