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feels the loss of its needful nutrition, and twig after twig, 

 branch after branch dies back, often puzzling the owner to 

 determine the trouble. 



Chief among the insects that have been proved at last 

 to be the cause of the trouble, are the leaf-footed plant bug 

 and the Euihoctha galeator, which, not being stationary, are 

 hard to rout, but may be driven away by several drench- 

 ings of No. 3 ; but the tree must be carefully pruned of 

 every dead or sickly limb, or even, if necessary, its whole 

 top cut away to give the few roots left alive a chance to 

 ! recover their vigor. 



THE RUST MITE. 



The recent report of the special agent of the govern- 

 ment entomologist on this insect is so full of interest and 

 instruction, that we embody it in the next chapter. 



