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(vii) Rows of peas, &c., are best protected either by spreading 



cinders and lime along the rows, or by heavy dressings 



of slaked lime, 

 (viii) Hedge bottoms, and rough herbage at the base of walls 



should be cleaned out and the masses of hibernating 



snails crushed, 

 (ix) Land that is thoroughly fouled with slugs should be 



treated with gas-lime and in the winter deeply trenched, 

 (x) Ducks and poultry should be kept, as they greedily devour 



both kinds of pests, 

 (xi) Birds should be encouraged. It is easier to keep them off 



fruit than to suppress the snails and slugs which they 



largely devour. 



INSECT PESTS. 



The following letter has been received from Dr. Howard, Chief 

 of the Bureau of Entomology of the U.S. D ;pt. of Agriculture. 



This weevil was killing the Camphor trees at Cinchona, but has 

 not been noticed on any other trees. If it be a fact, as Dr. 

 Howard supposes, that this insect pest has been imported in some 

 way from Central America, it is an additional proof of the neces- 

 sity of stringent precautions against such importations by care- 

 ful fumigation. 



Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief, of Bureau of Entomology, Dept. of Agri, 

 U.S.A., to Director of Public Gardens and Plantations, Jamaica. 



Washington, D.C. 

 December 2 1st, 1905. 

 Dear Mr. Fawcett, 



I have received yours of the 7th instant, with specimens of 

 larva and beetle found attacking young camphor trees at the 

 Botanic Garden at Cinchona. 



Mr. Schwarz reports that the weevil is Hilipus clegans, Guerin. 

 of the family Curculionidae. There are several hundred species 

 of this tropical or sub-tropical genus known from Central and 

 South America, including a few species from the West Indies. 

 Your species is not a native of the West Indies, but has been 

 manifestly imported during recent times from some part of Central 

 America where the insect is said to be quite abundant. Nothing 

 is known of the habits of any of the species, but since the genus 

 Hilipus is closely allied to our northern pine weevils it may be 

 inferred that they live under bark of various deciduous trees. I 

 am not able to give you any remedial measures, but any camphor 

 tree that shows the least sign of being affected by the weevil 

 should by all means be uprooted and burned. 



Yours very truly, 



L. O. Howard, 



Chief of Bureau. 



