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the Currant, on the fruit of which it is frequently 

 seen running. 



These insects attack the Vines, Nectarines, 

 Peaches, and Cherries : and forced French-Beans 

 are very subject to their depredations, as are also 

 Peaches and Nectarines on the natural wall, in hot 

 weather. Melons in frames are very much infest- 

 ed with them. I once saw a ridge of Melons, of 

 seventy lights, so much injured by them, that 

 when the fruit was full-grown, it was good for 

 nothing, and the stems and leaves were completely 

 exhausted of their moisture by these insects feed- 

 ing on them. They are equally hurtful to most 

 exotics in hot-houses. 



The best thing that I know for destroying these 

 pernicious insects is moisture ; which wdll also 

 destroy many other insects in hot houses. 



Frequent watering of wall-trees, standards, &c. 

 with lime-water (the making and using of which is 

 described in the directions for destroying the 

 Aphis), and throwing it plentifully on the under- 

 side of the leaves, where the Acarus is generally 

 found, will in a short time extirpate that destruc- 

 tive insect. 



For plants, &c. in hot-houses, I would recom- 

 mend using water only, and in the following man- 

 ner : 



Between three and four o'clock in the afternoon 

 fill the barrow-engine with soft-water, or such as 

 has been exposed to the sun all day, and wheel it 

 along the foot-paths of the house, where they are 



