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ties in miniature (d). Only the males, (<?), which 

 are few in proportion to the females, have wings ; 

 these devour nothing, and having performed the 

 office of impregnation, die. 



The white scaly bug, C. kesp. var. a (,/to /) bears 

 a considerable resemblance to the above ; but the 

 scale (^) is somewhat smaller ; the colour is white, 

 and the males or flies (7) not so large as those of the 

 brown. 



The white mealy crimson-tinged bug, C. hesp. var. 

 (n and m) differs from the former in being larger 

 and crimson-coloured. Speechly considers it as 

 viviparous. This and the former species are much 

 the most pernicious. 



Mr. Speechly's mode of destroying these and 

 other insects, being much too elaborate for modern 

 practice, it would be a waste of time to repeat his 

 processes. Simple modes are always the most effec- 

 tual, and nothing can be more so than M'Phail's 

 mode of applying the steam of water ; or Baldwin's, 

 that of horse-dung. 



Fruit produced. Mr. Speechly does not seem 

 to have had a fixed object as to the production of 

 fruit, unless it was to have it good. Some culti- 

 vators, as Justice, aim at having all the fruit ripe 

 at that season when they will attain the greatest size 

 and most flavour, viz. in August and September ; 

 others aim at having some weekly throughout the 

 year. Itwould appear that the former was Speechly's 

 object, and that he did not contemplate the other 

 as now generally practised. " Large fruiting 

 plants," he says, " will sometimes show their fruit 



