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Remedies : Gather and burn all the stalks in the fall, and the beetles 

 will be destroyed. 



Aphis (Aphis sp.) : Small, green, soft-bodied plant lice, about one- 

 sixteenth of an inch long. They have sucking mouth parts, and are 

 usually found on the under side of the leaves. They extract the juices from 

 the leaf, causing the leaves to curl up. 



Remedies : Tobacco water or dilute whale oil soap in the Paris 

 green-Bordeaux. 



Thb Fruiting Organs of Late Blight : (a) The branching stalks which issue 

 from a breathing pore of the leaf, and the spores ; (b) a simple spore or conidium 

 germinating ; (c) a sporangium with contained zoospores ; (d) a zoospore with its two 

 whips; (e) a zoospore after losing its whips ; (f) a zoospore germinating. 



Four-Lined Leaf-Bug (Poecilocapsus lineatiis) : A yellow sucking 

 insect, with its wing covers marked with black. It is a little more than 

 one-fourth of an inch in length, and feeds on the foliage of many garden 

 plants. The affected leaves turn brown and curl. 



Remedies : Spray the young bugs with kerosene emulsion ; add a 

 little whale oil soap to the Bordeaux. 



