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(tomato moth) deposits eggs on the fruit, and as soon as the young 

 emerge, they bore into the tomato and eat the inside out. Poison 

 baits can be used, made of bran, 10 lb., molasses, 4 lb., Paris green, 

 4 oz. ; this mixture, made into a paste, should be spread about in 

 small pieces amongst the fruit and will also destroy quantities of the 

 cutworms, Persectania (Mamestra) eivinfji and^^rofissp., which abound 

 in gardens. The Lymantrid, Teid anartoides, Walk., attacks apples, 

 quinces, plums and garden plants ; hessian bands have been found 

 successful, and arsenical sprays are also efficacious. Against Antherea 

 eucalypti, Scott (gum emperor moth), which attacks pepper and 

 eucalyptus trees as well as apples and roses, arsenical sprays should be 

 used. Pseudococcus albizziae, Msk. (dark purple wattle scale) is found 

 on all wattles and is now beginning to attack oranges ; kerosene 

 emulsion and red oil are used as remedies. The caterpillars of Zizera 

 lahradus, Godt. (bean butterfly) bore into bean-pods and eat the young 

 beans ; sprays of lead arsenate should be used. Aulacophora hi aris, 

 Boisd. (pumpkin beetle), besides damaging Cucurbitaceous plants, 

 now attacks peaches, nectarines, cherries, apples, etc. Arsenate of 

 lead, hellebore, Paris green and kerosene emulsion make good sprays. 

 A good mixture is 1 part kerosene oil, 1 part sour milk, and 100 parts 

 Avater. Crude oil of tar can be used, one gallon making 80 gallons of 

 spray. Dusting the plants with air-slaked lime has proved effectual. 

 The Limacodid, Doratifera vulnerans, Lewin (mottled cup moth) 

 feeds on peppermint and eucalyptus and also attacks apples and 

 cherries. Arsenical sprays, Paris green, or arsenate of lead will kill 

 this pest. Lonchaea splendida (metallic tomato fly) should be sprayed 

 Avith quassia chips and benzole emulsion. The Arctiid moths, Diacrisia 

 canescens, Le (x., and Ardices gJafignyi, Butl., attack flowering plants 

 and vegetables, especially beans, and can be controlled by arsenate of 

 lead sprays. Thrips tabaci, Lind., attacks potato crops severely as 

 well as fruit trees ; the latter should be sprayed when in bud with 

 benzole emulsion or coal-tar water, made by boiling 1 lb. coal tar in 

 2 gals, rain water and adding, while hot, 50 to 100 gals, of water. 

 Nicotine, lime-sulphur, hellebore and quassia sprays are all recom- 

 mended. Smudge fires may also be tried. Desiantha nociva, Lea 

 (tomato weevil) works havoc among tomatoes. Arsenate of lead 

 gives the best results. A good plan is to place sheets of newspaper 

 under the leaves at night and then approach with a light, when the 

 beetles are startled and fall on to the paper. Rose and raspberry 

 scale should be treated with prepared red oil. or kerosene or benzole 

 emulsion. Eriococcus coriaceus, Msk. (gum scale) rarely attacks fruit 

 trees, but is found on young eucalyptus and other trees. Red oil spray 

 and kerosene emulsion are recommended against it. Eulecaninm 

 {Lecanium) berberidis, Sch. (vine scale) is increasing on Australian 

 vines, and has lately been found on plinns. apricots and other trees. 

 Loose bark should be scraped from vines and plants should be sprayed 

 with red oil or benzole emulsion. Against the rose aphis the sprays 

 recommended are tobacco water, quassia chips and soft soap, benzole 

 emulsion, surpazol, Niqua's pine spray, and best of all, red oil used 

 after pruning. The apple-root borer [Leptops] is difficult to deal with, 

 the larvae living deep in the soil and roots of the trees. Spraying with 

 arsenate of lead and trapping the weevils have been fairly successful, 

 but further experiments are at present being carried out. 



