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tiiiR's. This post deposits its eggs in the leaves as also are repealed dustings of soot. Affected 

 and from the eggs whitish grubs or maggots arise, leaves should be Inirned or else squeezed between 

 which tunnel their way through the leaves. They the finger and thumb to kill the maggots. A look 



PoruLvs SEi;0TiXA (the black Italian- poi'lai;) at Belton. 

 (Bv the courtesy of the (Uirdcnrrs' Chniniclr). 



are often called leaf miners because of the tracks out should be kept in transplanting boxes and 



or tunnels they leave, which may be easily seen elsewhere for the yellow cases — just less than a 



within the leaves. Frequent spraying witli quarter of an inch long, which are the chrysalides 



paraffin emulsion is again to be recommended,, from which the adult insects will emerge. 



