Pests of garden plants

    Of the slugs there are several varieties, but the most destructive in gardens are the small white and small black slugs, which bury themselves in the ground or under leaves and come out in the night-time to feed. To destroy these, take fresh lime in a powdered state, put it into a coarse bag and after nightfall or before sunrise, dust the ground where slugs are about: every slug touched with the smallest particle of the lime will die at once. If the weather is wet, the power of the lime will soon be destroyed but if the ground is strewed in the evening with fresh cabbage-leaves, the slugs will hide under these and may be destroyed in the morning.