CHAPTER VII. 
RED SPIDER. 
Rep spider is the first blight to show. It 
occasionally attacks the first flush, but does not get 
bad until May. It is a very minute spider, 
but quite perceptible to the eye, and if a leaf is pick- 
ed, and the finger run down, a bright red stain will 
be seen. This blight is not really half so bad 
as supposed, as if the bushes are in fair order it 
only retards the flush slightly, And it is only the 
sickly bushes that suffer so very badly. The 
remedy for red spider is good cultivation and 
careful work, and it can soon be (to a great extent) 
got rid of. Hot scorching weather brings on the 
spider, and rain prevents its increase, or at any 
vate retards it. All the remedies, Lime, Sulphur, 
&c., are more or less useless—let alone the expense. 
Tea has sometimes been burnt to the ground and 
then cut heavily, and in the 2nd year the red 
spider has showed up again. The stronger the 
bushes are the less damage the spider will do, so 
