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Quince tree borer. (Country gentleman. Ap. 9, 1891. 56 : 294^) 

 Recommends soft soap and carbolic acid wash. 



Honey dew on pear twigs. (Country gentleman. Ap. 16, 1891. 



56:3i7 n ) 



It has no counectiou with apple scab. Probably the trees had been 

 attacked by Psylla pyri [pyricola]. 



Arsenic and honey experiments. [Is arsenical spraying harmful to 

 honeybees?] (Country gentleman. Ap. 16, 1891. 56:3i7 15 ) 



The liability of bees to be poisoned from blossoms sprayed with arseuites 

 should be determined by experiment. 



Entomology. (37th annual meeting of the western New York horticul- 

 tural society. Proceedings. Jan. 28 and 29, 1891. April 1891. 

 p. 10-17. Also, as separates, 8 p.) 



Eeport of the society's committee on entomology; upon 'Spraying with 

 insecticides,' and Some garden and orchard insects.' Topics embraced are : 

 Effect of london purple on the plum. London purple on the peach. Solubility 

 of london purple. An efficient nozzle for low spraying. Addition of lime to 

 the arsenites. Fungicides combined with the arsenites. Spraying for the 

 plum curculio. Spraying for the codling moth, New insecticidal machine. 

 Insecticides lately recommended. Protection from the striped cucumber 

 beetle. Apple curculio. Pear blight beetle. Rose bug. Marguerite fly. 

 Bean weevil. 



How to control the hop aphis. (New England homestead. May 2, 

 1891. 25: 193, col. i) 

 Gives remedies and manner of applying them. 



Apple tree insects of early spring. (Country gentleman. May 7, 1891. 



56:374 34 -75 n ) 



The following are noticed: apple aphis, Aphis mali Fabr. ; apple tree case 

 bearer, Coleophora malivorella Riley; eye spotted bud moth. Tmetocera 

 ocellana Schiff.; apple leaf Bucculatrix, B. pomifoliella Clem.; pear tree Psylla, 

 Psylla pyri \jtyricola], and remedies given. 



Orange leaf trouble. (Country gentleman. May 7, 1891. 56:375 28 ) 



Not caused by Typhlodromus oleivorus, but may possibly be owing to an 

 attack by a species of Lecanium or Ceroplastes. 



How to kill the rose bug, (New England homestead. May 9, 1891. 

 25 : 205, col. i) 

 Recommends hand picking or spraying with sludge oil soap solution. 



[Cermatia centipede.] (Albany morning express. May 19, 1891. p. 

 55 8 > col. i) 

 Pyrethrum recommended for the destruction of Cermatia [Scutigera~\ forceps. 



Wire worms in corn. (Country gentleman. May 28, 1891. 56: 43i 43 ) 

 Gives several methods of protecting recently planted corn. 



