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THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



with a little water to prevent its being lumpy) in a pail of water, and 

 showering it over the bushes with a watering pot. Many people are 

 timid about using hellebore while the fruit is on, for fear of its finding lodg- 

 ment there in quantities sufficient to produce unpleasant consequences 



when the fruit is eaten, but if applied in the way just mentioned there 

 need be no apprehensions on this point. 



The Plum Cureulio. Although we referred to this insect in our last, it 

 will not do to pass it over in silence now, for by the time this reaches the 

 eyes of our readers the young fruit will have formed, and jarring should at 

 once begin and be steadily kept up every evening until the fruit is pretty 

 well grown. The severe frost we have had has considerably injured the 

 plum blossoms in this western section, and we believe that the crop will 

 consequently be light, hence plum growers should be on the alert and dis- 

 pute possession with the " little Turk " from the very beginning. The 

 most convenient form of sheet to spread under the trees is that made with 

 two pieces of cotton of the requisite size, stitched only half way up the 

 middle, so as to allow the tree to pass to the centre, and having a strip of 

 w r ood attached to each of the outer edges, so that it may be conveniently 

 handled. Small trees may be jarred with the hand, larger ones should 

 have a branch cut off, leaving a stump which may be struck with a 



mallet, or else have a hole bored in 

 the tree, and a broad-headed iron spike 

 inserted, which may be struck with a ham- 

 mer. The accompanying figure 13 shows 

 the Cureulio in its different stages of larva. 

 ir, chrysalis />, and perfect insect c; the 

 hair lines alongside of each object shows 

 its natural size ; d represents a Cureulio 

 working on a young plum in which one 



esg has already been deposited. 

 Fig. 1:1 &!D j ' 



The Codling Moth Carpocapsa ' ponwiiella. This insect, so destructive to 

 the apple, usually appears in Ontario from the middle to the end of June, 

 but 'the season having opened earlier this year than common, we may look 

 for them in the beginning of the month, and in a fortnight later they will 

 probably be busy depositing their eggs about the eyes of the young apples. 

 Excellent traps may be made for them out of common bottles — widemouth 

 ones preferred — by partly filling them with a mixture of vinegar and water, 

 well sweetened with sugar, and having a little rum or other strong smelling 



