Your February number quotes an English paper as advising to pick off the cabbage worm or cater, pillar by hand - a good piece of work at high wages! I will give a better way to get rid of any caterpillar or slug on any plant, no matter how tender, or whether in flower. Take a handful of hellebore, sieve it fine into a large water-pot, pour three quarts of boiling water on it, stir it well and fill the pot full with cold water. Take a syringe or the fine rose of a water-pot, and put the liquid on. In twelve hours the worm is gone.