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"" Epilachna 28-punctata, side-view Larva of Epilachna 28-punctata 

 (magnified). side-view (magnified). 



Pumpkin leaf showing ravages of Epilachna. 



way as the plant-eating group. They are somewhat difficult to 

 distinguish from the useful kinds by the ordinary cultivator, and the 

 safest plan will be to take notice of the habits of any particular kind 

 before coming to a conclusion. When it is necessary to destroy injurious 

 Lady-birds the most effective means will be to spray with an arsenical 

 solution. 



FUNGI INJURIOUS TO FRUITS. 



Fruits often are seriously affected by fungi, and cultivators should 

 therefore adopt all practicable means for keeping these pests under. 

 Some of them may be checked materially, if remedial measures are 

 taken before the evil is wide-spread ; but others again cannot be so 

 readily dealt with. The kinds of injurious fungi are numerous, and 

 many are, unfortunately, too familiar to cultivators, but others again are 

 less known, and very frequently their presence is unsuspected. As a 

 matter of course, the writer does not propose, in a book of this kind, to 



