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eggs meutioned there can be uo doubt; but that Dr. Kohmer has con- 

 fused the larv;e of Galleria or some other Guest-moth with the larvie 

 of the fly seems probable. 



THE CHINCH BUG THIS YEAR. 



A report comes to us fiom Mr. J. W. Beach, of Batavia, Boone County, 

 Ark., to the effect that a general alarm prevails in that section of the 

 country for many miles around in regard to the Chinch Bng. They did 

 a considerable amount of damage there last year, and those that win- 

 tered over have already destroyed miny fields of grain this spring. 

 The wooded country in places is reported full of them, so much so that 

 the ijeople are contemplating setting fire to their Avoodlands. 



CODLING MOTH DESTRUCTION IN TASMANIA. 



We have in past years referred to the energetic way in which the au- 

 thorities in Tasmania were dealing with the Codling Moth problem, and 

 as an evidence of their continued work we quote the following from 

 the Hobart Town Mercury of recent date : 



The inspector submitted a list of persons who had failed to send in schedules, and a 

 resolutiou was passed to issue summonses to ail in default. It was also resolved that 

 the inspector proceed against all persons neylecting to gather and destroy infected 

 fruit and also for neglecting to bandage their trees. 



GAS LIME FOR THE ONION MAGGOT. 



A correspondent of the Gardeiiefs Chronicle^ as reported in the issue 

 of April 0, 1889, states that having had his cauliflowers, onions, brocolis, 

 savoys, and cabbages destroyed by wholesale, had his garden trenched 

 in the autumn and winter and gave it a thorough dressing of gas lime 

 and salt and continued to use a slight dressing every season afterwards. 

 The crops are no longer molested either by the Onion Maggot or by the 

 Wire- worms. He states that salt should be omitted from the dressing 

 if the land be heavy. 



PARIS GREEN FOR THE GARDEN WEB-WORM. 



In our annual report for 1885 in treating of this insect we urged as 

 the most satisfactory remedy the use of one of the arsenical mixtures, 

 and are glad to learn that experiments made in 1888 by Professor Cas- 

 sidy, of the Colorado State Experiment Station, proved very effective. 

 Professor Cassidy states that he made his first ai)plication of Paris green 

 June ], using 1 pound of the poison to 100 gallons of water, which 

 l)roved to be very ettective and not dangerous to the plant. A second 

 application was made June 20 and another July 3. 



PHYLLOXERA IN ASIA MINOR. 



We learn through the Gardener''s Chronicle of April G that the last 

 number of the Kew Bull tin states that the introductiou of Phylloxera 



