Mosquito. 51L 
This is of course after good cultivation, ££ you 
do not hoe the pieces above the blighted piece, the 
green fly when it moves up will stay there. 
Mosquito. 
This is very much the worst blight. The 
leaves are regularly dried up, and the shoot is 
attacked directly it shows, and tea made on the 
bushes. In fact, in many cases gardens are per- 
fectly shut up (as far as leaf plucking goes) for 
months. There is no doubt that the Mosquito 
is spreading in the hills. It invariably first 
attacks the low-lying hot flats near the bed of 
the river, and then works up. This year the blight 
has spread more than ever, and many gardens never 
before attaked have suffered badly, It is a curious 
circumstance that sometimes a piece of tea is 
black with blight on one side of the road, and 
the other side not touched. All sorts of remedies 
have been proposed: lighted torches carried through 
affected parts at night, children catching mos- 
quito &., but nothing willstop this plague when. 
it once starts, There is a smelling bug which 
has identically the same effect, but the bug is 
