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Cabbage Maggot (Country Gentleman, for June C, 1889, liv, p. 440, 

 c. 4 — 10 cm.) 



An infusion of burcloclc (its method of preparation given) is recom- 

 mended as a remedy for attacli if the larvae have not burrowed into the 

 stallis ; if in that state, then take vip the plant and destroy it, together 

 with any larvjB that may be in the ground adjacent. Other remedies are 

 caustic lime applied to the roots, unleached ashes about the plant, and 

 kerosene emulsion. 



Apple Tree Worm. (Country Gentleman, for June G, 1889, liv, p. 440, 

 c. 4 — 13 cm.) 



For information of ^his insect reference is made to articles in the 

 C. G. of June 21 and July 5, 1888, and April 4, 1889. The caterpillar is 

 again very abundant and destructive the present year in Eastern 

 New York. It may so easily bo destroyed by methods that have been 

 repeatedly pointed out, that to permit its in j uries is a crime. The cost 

 of its neglect is shown. 



Rose-bug Destroying Peaches. (Country Gentleman, for June 6, 

 1889, liv, p. 441, c. 1—12 cm.) 



If the old remedies used against this insect, Macrodactylun subspinosas, 

 such as jarring on sheets, and dusting the foliage with plaster, slaked 

 lime, oak ashes and road dust be found insufficient, then the remedy that 

 the Rural New Yorker claims to be the simplest and most effective of all 

 might be tried, viz., to spray the insect with pyrethrum powder in water — 

 one tablespoonful to a gallon of water. Results asked for. 



The Rose-Leaf Hopper. (Country Gentleman, for June 6, 1889, liv, 

 p. 441, c. 1—20 cm.) 



The Tettigonia rosce of Harris, first appears early in May and matures 

 late in the month. Whale-oil soap or tobacco water will kill the young 

 larva). Pyrethrum powder will also kill them and their pupse, 

 Pyrethrum in water, and hellebore powder in water, and J^josene or a 

 kerosene emulsion may also be used. It is more difficult t'S'kill when it 

 has become winged. It may then be driven on cloths saturated with 

 kerosene or on tarred surfaces. 



[The Forest Tent-Caterpillar Devastating Maples.] (Albany Evening- 

 Journal, for June 8, 1889, — 14 cm.). 



Account of the ravages of Clisiocampa sylvatica as observed June sixth 

 in a maple grove at Kingsbury, Washington county, N. Y. Not a leaf 

 remained on tiees seventy feet in height and two feet diameter of trunk. 



Butternut trees had also been defoliated, but the insect could not be 

 found. 



Parasite on Potato Beetle. (Country Gentleman, for June 13, 1889, 

 liv, p. 456-457, cols. 4, 1—26 cm.) 



The parasite enveloping the potato-beetle in Roslyn, N. Y., is Urojtoda 

 Americana Riley. Its history is given, its description, place in classifi- 



