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W. Harris, in his able " Report on the Insects of Massachusetts injurious to vegetation," recom 

 mends, as the best remedy for its destruction, " a wash made of two parts of soft soap and eight 

 of water, with which is to be mixed lime enough to bring it to the consistence of thick white- 

 wash." This application is to be put on with a brush, to the limbs affected, "in the early part 

 of June, when the insects are young and tender." We have also used, with entire success, in the 

 winter, the whale-oil-soaj^ applied with a hard brush. 



Carpocapsa pomonella, or Apple Moth. This is the insect which disfigures so many of our 

 apples, and causes such numbers of them to fall prematurely from the tree. Mr. Ewexs, a mem- 

 ber of our Society, in passing through his orchard, pulled up a sod of grass and laid it in the 

 crotch of an apple tree; subsequently, he found it full of cocoons, wliich proved to belong to the 

 insect in question. In this case, the apple worms, as is usual with them, had left the fruit, after 

 they had attained their full larval growth, (some of them while it was on the tree, and others 

 after it had fallen,) to take refuge in the crevices of the trunk ; but finding a convenient shelter 

 in the tuft of grass, they availed themselves of it. Dr. Harris has recommended old cloth to be 

 used for this purpose ; and it is evident that if these facts be taken advantage of when the 

 infected apples begin to drop prematurely, the summer and autumnal broods may be materially 

 diminished. It is of most importance to attend to the latter brood, which furnishes the individuals 

 that live through the winter, and thus preserve the species for another year. 



Aphis {Pemphigus) stamineus. This name is proposed for a large species of Aphis which forms 

 follicles on the leaves of the silver-leaved Maple {Acer eriocarpum). The specimens were sent to 

 us by our ex-President, Caleb Cope, Esq. This curious Aphis appears to be a new species. Dr. 

 FiTcii, in the descriptions of the New York State Cabinet, mentions the European Aphis acres as 

 occurring in Xew York, and may have this woolly species in view ; but the description of the 

 foreign one does not mention the remarkable filaments which approximate the insect to certain 

 tropical forms. Both sexes are covered with white down, and have a bunch of white filaments 

 posteriorly, some of which are three-fourths of an inch long, a character in which this species 

 surpasses the. Eriosoma of the apple tree. Male. — Black, feet long, slender, and rufous; tarsi 

 bi-articulate ; wings slightly deflexed, translucent, pale ferruginous at the base ; submarginal 

 nervure conspicuous, black, and ending in a long stigma ; disc with four simple nervures ; pos- 

 terior wings with three nervures ; mesonotum polished, with a deep Y-shaped impression ; abdo- 

 men without tubes ; promuscis obsolete ; antennse 6 — articulate, the first two short, the 3d long, 

 and the 4th, 5th, 6th, gradually lengthening ; length of the body 1^ lines, or to the end of the 

 wings 2-^. Female and pupa. — Apterous, dark reddish brown, feet paler ; promuscis twice as long 

 as the head, thickened near the apex ; length 14- lines. 



Kextuckt Horticultural Society. — Saturday, August Gtli, was a proud day for the managers 

 and friends of this Society. The display was by far the most imposing of the season, and in some 

 of its features might have challenged a comparison with any similar display in Philadelphia, Kew 

 York, or Boston. The show of peaches and plums was particularly fine in its appearance, and 

 varied and profuse in quantity. The contributions from our friend L. Young, Esq., President of 

 the Society, have been, as all our readers are aware, so imiformly creditable that we were not 

 surprised to see in passing around the Societies tables his articles, clever as usual ; but we confess 

 we were surprised, and agreeably, too, on finding that so large a portion of the contributoi's of 

 Saturday had been able to bring forward specimens which, in their kind, would compare favora- 

 bly with those even of the President. We do not wish to seem inviduous by refering to a few 

 where so many were deserving of notice. But we do not misinterpret the judgment of the very 

 large and intelligent crowd of visitors when we designate as surpassingly beautiful, in their kind, 

 tlie plate of pears contributed by Mr. George Herr, the plums by Capt. William Gibson, of 

 Charlestown, liid., and Mrs. Ford, of Jefferson county, and the peaches of Mr. Jacob Johnson, 



