100 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



BOOK NOTICE. 



Insects Injurious to Fruits, by William Saunders. Second editon. 

 Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, i vol., 8 vo., pp. 436. 



It is with great pleasure that we announce the publication of the 

 second edition of this valuable and important work. That a new issue 

 should be called for is a most satisfactory proof of the excellence and 

 permanent usefulness of the book, and establishes the fact that Prof. 

 Saunders has provided the fruit growers of North America with a standard 

 manual upon the insect enemies they have to contend with. Six years 

 have gone by since the issue of the first edition, and, during that time, 

 great and steadily increasing attention has been given to the study of 

 economic entomology, with the result that many new methods have been 

 discovered for successfully combatting the ravages of noxious insects. 

 The most important and useful of these the author has now embodied in 

 his book, and has done so with very little change in the text of the work. 

 A superficial reader would hardly notice the alterations, but we find that 

 many have been made, and that they bring down the information given 

 to the knowledge of the present day. As an example, we may mention 

 the insertion among the remedies for the codling worm, of the apple and 

 the plum curculio, the recently discovered method of spraying with a 

 mixture of Paris green and water, which has proved so eminently success- 

 ful. For the information of those of our readers who are not already 

 familiar with the work, we may mention that the insects treated of are 



grouped under the name of the particular fruit that they attack, and are 

 arranged in order according as they affect the root, trunk, branches, 

 leaves and fruit. An illustrated life history is given of each, followed by 

 an account of the most useful remedies that may be employed, and of any 

 parasitic insects that assist in keeping the pest in check. Twenty of the 

 most important fruits are dealt with, and two hundred and sixty-six 

 noxious insects and a large number of beneficial ones are more or less 

 fully described. The book is beautifully printed on fine paper, and illus- 

 trated with four hundred and forty admirable wood cuts. While this 

 work is simply indispensable to the intelligent horticulturist, it is also of 

 great value to the practical entomologist, and a most useful book to place 

 in the hands of beginners. The young collector will find in its pages 

 figures and descriptions of most of the insects that he meets with, and the 

 more advanced student cannot fail to learn from it much that would 

 otherwise escape his observation. 



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