AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 99 



CHAPTER X. 



Insects injurious to Garden Vegetables, &c. Aphides. Larvae, or Worms. 



Moles. 



WINGED INSECTS. 



Aphides, or " Green Flies," &c. 



Fig. 62. 



a, natural size ; &, >, magnified. 



Cabbage Aphis, Aphis Brasicae, 



Corn " " Maidis, , _. 



Hop Humuli, > Fl S- 62 - 



Lettuce " " LactucgeJ 



The cabbage, corn, hop, and lettuce aphides, though distin- 

 guished by entomologists, need not be distinguished here. 

 Their names indicate the particular plants they infest, the rem- 

 edies are the same for all, and each, we may be sure, is pursued 

 by its destroyers. 



The first is found on all unhealthy and ill-cultivated cab- 

 bages, and the only remedy, or rather preventive, is good cul- 

 ture, successful in producing unchecked growth. 



The second appears only occasionally, and usually or always 

 upon the green ear-set of the corn, at the extremity of the 

 husk. 



The third is sometimes troublesome upon the hop, where it 

 is cultivated as a farm crop Showering with pretty strong 

 tobacco- water, or sowing dry ashes, or lime, or plaster upon 

 them in the dew, are worthy of trial with a view to their pre- 

 vention or destruction. 



