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entirely, eating all the full grown flowers 

 and eien the buds? Hellebore hasnoeflfect 

 whatever upon them." 



-•Ins. The black beetles attacking the 

 China asters are without doubt the com- 

 mon black blister beetles, and the best 

 way to ge. rid of them is to either catch 

 them in a sweep net, such as used by en 

 tomologists, or shake off into shallow 

 pans in which a little water and kerosene 

 oil is placed as a bath. Poison* scattered 

 over the flowers ruins them for further 

 use, and rarely affects the insects. These 

 beetles come from the field, where they 

 usually feed on the wild solidagos, and 

 only occasionally invade the flower gar- 

 den. Only once "or t ((vice in thirty years 

 have my asters been attacked, although 

 this blister beetle is always to be found 

 in the fields in greater or less abundance. 



A. S. FiLLI-R. 



AN INSECT OflLl. 



E C. B., Georgetown, Ky., 



ites: 



enclose in a tin bo.K a sample of some- 

 th ng I found on a sweetbrier. At first I 

 thought it was growing from the bush, 

 but on closer inspection found it was not. 

 A month ago it appeared like tiny green 

 burrs, now they have turned brown, and 

 on breaking them I find a small green 

 worm What are they and remedy?" 



.Ins. The little brown objects, smaller 

 than peas, and thickly beset with sharp 

 bristles are the galls made by a species of 

 gall fly. I cannot give its name or life- 

 history while in the mountains away 

 from library, but it has been described 

 and figured by Walsh— Riley, in one of 

 the volutfies of the American Entomolo- 

 gist. This particular gall is not of fre- 

 fpientoccurrence, and therefore no remedy 

 is needed for them. Should they at any 

 time become abundant, they may be cut 

 off" and burned before the contained fly 

 has matured and emerged. 



|. A. LiNTNER. 



Keene Valley, N. Y., JulV 31, 1895. 



The Fio e.vter Beetle (AUorhinn 

 nitida) Some one has sent us (to the 

 Chicago officel one of these beetles in a 

 little paper box, b'lt no letter or other 

 word has come with it to say whence or 

 whv it came or from whom. It is a large 

 liettle nearly an inch long, and in form 

 not unlike a'May bug; its wing cases are 

 velvety green with creamy colored edge's. 

 It is very common from New Jersey south- 

 ward, but not common in the north. 

 Harris says "no remedy has been sug- 

 gested for these insects other than col- 

 lecting and destroying them." In July 

 last year they appeared at Dosoris sud- 

 denly and in great numbers, and in a day 

 or two disappeared as suddenly, except a 

 few stragglers that we found here and 

 there among the trees. On the 3d of July, 

 this year, they came again just as sud- 

 denly, butin fewer numbtrs, and remained 

 longer. 



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 just as you would in any other deep under 

 ground tunnel or cave, the Paris caves 

 for instance, see pages 143 to 150, of 

 "Mushrooms: How to Grow Them." A 

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