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INSECT PESTS 



Beetles — cont. 



Tiger or Sparkler, 103, 104 

 Turnip and Cabbage Flower, 45 

 Turnip Gall Weevil, 47, 61, 169 

 Turnip Mud, 47, 49 

 Weevil tribe, 36, 43, 47, 61, 64, 



82, 90, 92,112, 113 

 Big Bud of currants, 91 



Bird's Eye, or Strawberry Leaf 



Spot, 146 

 Birds, beneficial action of, 28, 45, 

 53, 61, 62, 69, 76, 77, 81, 82, 



83, 89, 90, 93, 100, 102 

 Black Fly, Bean Thrips or Collier 



Blight, 66 

 Blight (Potato Disease), 135 

 Blue Clay, 153 

 Blue- bottles or Blow-flies, 14 



larvae known as "gentles," 27 

 Bordeaux and Burgxmdy mixttu'e, 



123, 140, 141, 143, 146 

 Bot Flies, 23 



Bristle-tails or Thysanoura, 96 

 Buff Ermine Moth, 112, 116 

 Bunt and Smut, 143 

 Bush Fruit, 88 



Butterflies and Mothe, difference 

 between, 17 



harmless and beautiful kinds, 

 17, 38, 54 



Cabbage Aphis, 190, 191 

 Moth, 17, 59 

 Powdered Wing, or Snowy Fly, 



62 

 Root Fly, 62 

 White Butterflies, 17, 57, 83 



parasites of, 59 

 White Rust, 144 

 Caddis Flies, 14 

 Calves, redwater disease of, 23 



32 

 Canker, on melons, tomatoes and 

 cucvmabers, 123 

 on fruit trees, 145 

 Carbolic treatment of soil, 125 

 Carpomycetes, or mushroom and 



puff-ball fungi, 129 

 Carrot Fly, 68, 69 

 Celery Fly, 69 

 Leaf Spot, 140 



Cellulose and cell- walls, 168 

 Centipedes, 12 



and Millipedes, distinction be- 

 tween, 98, 103 

 Chaffinch, useful work of, 62 

 Chalk soil, 158 

 Cheese mould, 129 

 Chemistry of manures, 167 

 China clay, 154, 156 

 Chlorophyll or plant green, 171 



absent in fungi, 129 

 Civilization versus Nature, 18 

 Clay-coloured or Raspberry Wee- 

 vil, 90 

 Clay soil, 154, 156, 157 

 Cleanliness, importance of, with 

 stock, 28 



with crops, 97 

 Click or Skip-jack Beetle, 9S 

 Clock or Watchman Beetle, 104 

 Clothes Moth, 117 

 Clover pests, 36 



sickness, 141 

 Cluster Cups on Barberry, first 

 stage of wheat mildew, 133, 

 143 

 Coal measures, 153 

 Cockchafers, 38, 82, 99, 110, 114 

 Cockroaches, 14 

 Codlin Moth, 84 

 Codfish and their spawn, 30 

 Coleoptera, or Case-wings, 17 

 Collembola or Spring-tails, soil 



insects, 97 

 Common Wainscot Moth, 38 

 Composition of soils, 151 



of plants, 168 

 Conclusion, regarding pest pro- 

 blem, 179 

 Conservatory, distinct from a 



greenhouse, 108 

 Corky Scab of potatoes, 136 

 Corn, 39 



land, 177 

 Corn Aphis, 43, 191 



Fly, Ribbon-footed, 40 



Rust, 133, 141 



Thrips, 43 



Weevil, 43 

 Cotton wool for protection of pot 



plants from sings, 102 



