IN THE GARDEN. 



This loss is entirely caused by one of 

 these small blights, a tiny greyish yellow 

 insect which clusters in colo- 

 nies round the new shoots and 

 on the new leaves of the trees 

 and piercing through the stem 

 or leaf insert their beaks in the 

 tissue and suck out the sap. 

 They may be likened to so 

 many little animated siphons 

 sucking in and exuding the 

 sap in one continuous stream. 

 The exudations account for the 

 sticky state of the 

 curled up leaf masses 

 and of the older V 

 leaves and branches 

 of the tree. If the attack is 

 discovered early, it can be stop- 

 ped by spraying the trees with 

 a kerosene emulsion mixture made as 

 follows : Boil a solution of soap and 

 water, add kerosene up to 10 per cent., 

 churn up the mixture and then spray it 

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