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GARDEN FOES. 



described in connection with the Ash-bark Beetle. The 

 beetles are black, one-eighth of an inch long, have pitchy 

 legs, and reddish feet. The larva^ are fleshy,- legless, 

 wrinkled, an<l whitish in colour. The fenitde beetle lays 

 its eggs in cie vices of the bark in June, and the larvne 

 bore short tunnels at ri^ht anijles to a central one, work- 



[Photo : H. A. Smith. 



HOP OR ARTICHOKE GALLS ON AN OAK. 



The frails arc hop or Glolie Artichoke shaped, and formed in the buds of 

 the shoot-.s. 



ing on both sides in the soft bark. They are fully fed by 

 July, then turn into pupae, and come forth as beetles in 

 August. If very numerous they soon kill a tree. 



Eembdies. — (1) Spraying the bark with a Kerosene Emul- 

 sion (No. 16) in June and July, and again in August when 



