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always be enough better to pay well for the trouble, even 

 under these circumstances. 



EADISH. 



The same insects that attack young cabbage plants and 

 the turnips infest the Radish. In some localities it is 

 almost impossible to grow radishes of a size fit for the 

 table before they are so much injured by a small maggot 

 as to be useless. These maggots appear to be the larvae 

 of a fly (Anthomyia), closely related to those so destruc- 

 tive to the onion. (See Onion Flies). The False Chinch 

 Bug (Nysius devastator), troublesome in some of the 

 Western States, attacks the leaves of the Radish as well as 

 those of other plants of the same family. 



SQUASH AND PUMPKIN. 



The Squash and Pumpkin belong to the same family 

 of plants (the Gourd Family, Cucurbitacece) with the 

 Cucumber and Melon, and most of the insects that infest 

 those may often be found upon them, especially while 

 the plants are young, at which time they need the pro- 

 tection from the Striped-beetle, etc., mentioned under 

 Cucumber and Melon. 



THE SQUASH-BUG. 

 (Anasa [formerly Coreus] tristis, Degeer.) 



For this insect the name, Squash Bug, is scientifically 

 correct, as it belongs to the true bugs, with the Chinch, 

 Bed, and other unpleasant bugs. (See Hemiptera, in 



