MISCELLANEOUS.

Otago Witness, Volume 11, Issue 2280, 11 November 1897, Page 8

MISCELLANEOUS.

SCHOOL GARDENS.

Messrs Nimmo and Blair have forwarded to every head teacher in Otago a collection of paokets of flower seods, with the following circular, which explains itself :—": — " Recognising, from an educational point of view, the benefits to be derived in tha growing of plants, &c, and hoping to iosbill into the minds of the younger portion of the community a love for plants, flowers, ko , we are mailing a collection of — - pickets of flower seeds. These we hope you will have sown somewhere about the school grounds, and thus help to beautify what may be at present a bare, uncultivated piece of ground. We leave the distribution of the seecs 'among the children in your hands, and would suggest that the sowing of them be made the subject of an object lesson on • Nature's Gifts,' and that the opportunity might also be tftkea to impress upon the children the desirability, of keeping the school grounds ueafc and tidy."

CODLTN MOTH TRAP.

Bit F. W. Eggers has shown ua a copy of the Auslralien Zeicung, a German paper published in. South Australia, which contains a description of a method generally and successfully adopted in Germany of dealing with the codlin moth. A syrup of mgar and water is made, or water and honey if preferrtd, and poured iufco a widish glass globe. To this is added a little apple jam or apple pulp to give ifc a flavour. The glbbej or j-vrs are then hung in the trees, and during the time the moth is on the wing (j"st approaching iv New Zealand now) as many as 20 moths are trapped in one night in each globe. We have seen this method of dealing with the pesb recommended before, bub this confirmatory testimony shou'd induce those in iaftctcd districts to give it a trial.