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From Sam Beaton's 1862 New Dictionary of Everyday Gardening

'If the caterpillar has begun its ravages, the ground beneath the currant bush should be sprinkled with new lime, and a double  barrelled gun fired two or three times under it to shake the caterpillars down onto it'

Methinks more than the caterpillars would be shaken.

How things have changed eh!!!




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