X PREFACE. 



ment of the insect feeders on that special crop. In the 

 following pages I have endeavoured to collect the very best 

 information in my power as to treatment which has been 

 found practically useful at a paying rate in keeping these 

 infestations in check, and it would be a sincere satisfaction to 

 me if thus the observations which many of our horticulturists 

 and others have been good enough to place in my hands for 

 our general service may help in some degree to preserve a 

 fair amount of our fruit crops from insect depredations, and 

 a fair return to the growers for their great outlay. 



ELEANOR A. ORMEROD, F.E.S. 



ToRRiNGTON HousE, St. Albans : 

 September, 1898. 



