24 AUGUST 1944, Page 14

In My Garden Wasps, which are exceptionally numerous, are very

busy with ti* apples, even before they are ripe, and destruction of nests is a dutl. As we are told that we must not destroy them with derris powder, °thot efficient means are a cupful of creosote or tar or sulphur mixed with little gunpowder. My wasps seem to enjoy especially those two excelll apples, Langley's Pippin (one of the best of the earlies) and Ellison! Orange (one of the best of the rather newer apples). Like the rIti which may visit our stores later, no mere cooker is any use to the,