XI 



THE INSECT ENEMIES OF 



PLANTS 



ANTS suffer more, I 

 think, from the attacks of 

 insects than from disease. 

 Few plants are exempt. 

 We seldom find any collec- 

 tion wholly free from them 

 in spite of the many and 

 determined efforts on the part of the owner to 

 put them to rout. Grow Tea Roses and Pelar- 

 goniums and you will find it almost impossible 

 to prevent the aphis, or green plant louse from 

 attempting to take possession of them. Grow 

 Coleus, and other plants of similar habit, and 

 the woolly aphis or mealy-bug will be almost 

 sure to take up his quarters on them. In 

 nearly every living-room where the tempera- 

 ture runs high and the air is dry, the red spider 

 delights to do his deadly work. If you can 

 prevent scale from troubling your Palms, and 

 other plants having a firm-textured foliage, 



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