Thick slices of turnip are attractive.

Slugs really do seem to like them, even better than one's favourite seedlings.
Little heaps of bran also, and young lettuces.

My slugs do not care for cabbage leaves, and they are very untidy.

Put thick slices of turnip near your auriculas, favourite primroses and polyanthuses, and Christmas roses, and near anything tender and not well established, and overhaul them early in the morning.

"You can't get up too early, if you have a garden," says Mr.Warner; and he adds: "Things appear to go on in the night in the garden uncommonly.