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Elm and apple-tree pests. (Country gentleman. May 20, 1897. 62:390, 

 col. 1-2, 13 cm) 



Protection from the elm-leaf beetle is found in early spraying with 

 paris green, while the larvae are young, or by killing them with hot 

 water or otherwise as they come to the ground for pupation. 



For preventing injury by the apple-tree borer, apply soft soap and 

 soda to the trunk in June and July, or cut out the young grubs from 

 beneath the bark. 



Tent caterpillar. (Country gentleman. May 20, 1897. 62 : 390, col. 



2, 9 cm) 



Caterpillars inhabiting a web on an apple-tree received from a 

 Monroe county correspondent are identified as Clisiocampa amenca?ia 

 Harris. 



May beetle. (Country gentleman. May 20, 1897. 62:390,001.2, 10 cm) 



The dying of the grass in spots on a lawn reported from Staten 

 Island, N. Y., probably indicates the presence of white grubs. Their 

 habits are given and kerosene emulsion recommended, which has been 

 used very successfully at Washington. 



Strawberries and Indian corn. (Country gentleman. May 20, 1897. 



62 : 394, col. 1-2, 20 cm) 



Report is made of a worm feeding on the leaves, blossoms and fruit 

 of the strawberry, and that another feeds on ears of green corn. The 

 insect attacking the strawberries is most probably a cut-worm, and can 

 be best fought by the use of poisoned baits. For the other, which is 

 probably the cotton boll-worm, Heliothis armiger Hiibn., hand picking 

 is recommended. 



Elm-tree beetle. (Country gentleman. May 27, 1897. 62 : 406, col. 



3, 4 cm) 



A Brooklyn, N. Y., correspondent is answered that the largest elms 

 can be protected from the beetle by means of a suitable force pump 

 and a sufficient length of hose carried up into the tree. The inquirer 

 is directed to the park commissioners of Brooklyn, for the spraying 

 desired, or for further information to the entomologist of Central park, 

 New York. 



Grasshoppers. (Country gentleman. June 10, 1897. 62 : 446, col. i- 



2, II cm) 



In reply to an inquiry how to protect a garden from grasshoppers at 

 Highland Lake, Col., allowing domestic fowls to run in the garden is 

 recommended. The value of a poisoned bran mash is stated and 

 directions given for its preparation and use. 



Apple woolly louse. (Country gentleman. June 10, 1897. 62 : 454, col. 

 2, 3—21 cm) 



Examples of an insect from Ruxton, Md., are identified as the 

 woolly louse of the apple, Schizotienra lanigera Hausm. The two 

 forms of the insect are referred to, and their characteristics given. 



