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this county which have not been renewed within one year with 

 plants from an immune district, some place where severe frosts keep 

 out this pest. There is practically no remedy for infested plants. 

 The beetles work on young orange trees also, and especially on 



Young orange foliage, showing work of Fuller's Rose Beetle. 



starting buds of nursery stock, where they will make tatters of the 

 new leaves and destroy the tender growth. The larva feed on tree 

 and plant roots in the ground, doing much damage. The beetles 

 can be kept out of the trees by bands of tanglefoot or cotton bat- 

 ting placed around the trunks. 



