198 REMARKS ON INSECTS. 



are intended to avoid an internal disease in the 

 plants, (if I may use the term,) insects will at 

 all times make their appearance, which should 

 be attended to without delay : in the first place, 

 be careful to keep the pinery at all times very 

 clean, and when insects appear on the plants, 

 take a brush, a common painter's brush will do. 

 and brush as many of the insects as you con- 

 veniently can off the leaves, even down to the 

 heart of the plants, but do not injure them, and 

 also quite down to the bottom where they appear. 

 Various methods are also used to destroy the 

 insects; fumigating with tobacco smoke, although 

 an old method is by no means to be despised ; 

 indeed, if properly managed, I do not know of 

 a better, although many, from some trifling oc- 

 currence, may differ from me. This is done by 

 means of fumigating bellows, or with a smoking 

 pot, letting it burn till the house is filled with a 

 dense smoke, and when the smoke is let off, such 

 of the insects which have not been killed by it, 

 will be in a sickly moving state, and by watering 

 the plants all over through the rose of a large 

 watering-pot, it will dislodge the remainder, 



