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when nearly expanded, a small white 

 grain with a black head will be found in 

 the centre, which beijins to assume a 

 yellowish colour; a few days later the 

 grub will be found either wholly or 

 partially chanj^ed to a beetle, and should 

 there be a small hole on the side of the 

 receptacle the beetle will have escaped; 

 the transformation from the etrg to the 



APHELANDRA cristata. Stove 

 evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Loam and 

 peat. 



APHELEXIS. Four species. Green- 

 house evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Peat 

 and sandy loam. 



APHI.S, the Plant Louse, Puceron, or 

 Vine fretter. This insect, so destructive 

 from its multitude, attacks fruit trees, 



perfect state not having occupied more juicy kitchen vegetables, and other 

 than a month. When this beetle, which plants, weakening and rendering them 

 is dark brown with grey stripes, leaves incapable of development by sucking 

 the receptacle, it feeds during the sum- from them their juices. The exhaustion 

 mer on the leaves of the trees, and is thus occasioned is sometimes so corn- 

 seldom to be seen. In the autumn, the plete as to destroy the plant. Each 

 weevils leave the trees and search for vegetable subject to its ravages has its 

 convenient hiding-places under stones peculiar species 



about the trees, or under the rough bark, 

 in which they pass the winter. 



•Consequently, as they commence 



Aphis pyri mall is of a grass green 

 colour, attacking the apple and pear. 

 A. persica is dark green, and is pe- 



their operations early in the spring, care culiar to the peach and nectarine 

 should be taken to remove all stones, ^. pr«ni ravages the plum tribes, and 

 dead leaves, and other litter from under is a very light green, 

 the trees, as well as to scrape off the A. rosa. Light green, found upon 

 rough dead bark from them in the winter the rose genus. 



A.fabcc, known popularly as the Black 

 Dolphin and Elephant, is black, and at- 

 tacks the common bean. 



The tops of beans attacked by the 

 Black Dolphin should be forthwith re- 



season. 



" The apple weevil is also very in- 

 jurious to pear trees." — Card. Chron. 



A N T H O P H Y U M lanceolatum. A 

 stove fern. Seed. Liiilit rich soil. 



ANTHOSPER M U M athiopicum. 

 Green-house evergreen shrub. Cuttings. 

 Loam and peat. 



ANTH YLLIS. Twenty-two species. 

 Hardy herbaceous and green-house ever- 

 greens. Seeds or cuttings. Sandy loam 

 and peat. 



ANTIDESMA. Three species. Stove 

 evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Rich loam 



moved; and smaller plants may be sy- 

 ringed with tobacco-water, or water in 

 which elder leaves have been boiled ; 

 which applications are all fatal to the 

 aphis. 



A. pisi is green, and affects the pea. 



A. lonicera. Woodbine louse. Dingy 

 green. 



A. cerasi, Morello cherry louse. Ap- 



ANTIRRHINUM. Snap-dragon, pears black. Infests the under sides of 

 Twelve species. Hardy herbaceous, the leaves, especially on wet soils 



except A. asarina and molle, which are 

 half-hardy evergreens. Cuttings or seeds. 

 Common soil. 



ANTLER MOTH. Charicas. 



ANTWERP HOLLYHOCK. Althaa 

 ficifolia. 



ANYCHIA dichotoma. Hardy bien- 

 nial. Division and seed. Sand and 

 loam. 



A O T U S . Three species. Green- 

 house evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. 

 Loam and sandy peat. 



APEIB.\. Four species. Stove ever- 

 green trees. Cuttings. Loam and peat. 



APHANANTHE celosioides. Green- 



A. coryli, Nut louse. Pale green. 



A. Dahlia, Dahlia louse. Amber 

 coloured. 



A . rihis, Red currant louse. Blackish. 



A.ligust7-i, Privet louse. Dark brown. 



A. ribis-nigri. Black currant louse. 

 Transparent green. 



A. lathyri. Sweet pea louse. Dark 

 purple. 



A. [Cinara) raphani. Radish louse. 

 Females, green ; males, lightish red. 



The aphides on the peach appear the 

 earliest, being, as are all the others, the 

 produce of eggs deposited during the 

 previous autumn. During the spring and 



house evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Peat summer they are viviparous, and breed 



and loam. with extraordinary rapidity. The gar- 



APHANOCHILUS incisus. Hardy dener does well, therefore, to scrub the 



herbaceous. Cuttings. Light soil. , branches of his wall trees, and to boil 



