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substances, in which case it should be taken out with a 
small brush or pointed stick, for if left in its lurking 
places, the bunches among which it is located will be 
disfigured and too dirty for use. The tortoise-shell scale is 
more solitary in habits, and in appearance like a small tor- 
toise-shell ; it is to be found in the same places as the 
brown scale, lives upon the j — of the vine, and can be 
destroyed by the same mea Aphidae, or green and 
black fly, are small insects, secoak in movement, having 
prominent antenne, a large abdomen, and a long probos- 
cis, with which they pierce the cuticle of the tender shoots, 
and draw out the sap, which quickly brings decrepitude 
into the advancing extremities. They are viviparous and 
gregarious, and inerease amazingly fast. 
rips are small, active, linear-shaped little insects, 
which congregate on and run over the under surface of 
are somewhat linear and triangular in form, small, and of 
a palish yellow color, and like the last they feed on the 
outer covering of the leaves. All the last three varieties 
can be destroyed by fumigating with tobacco, but care 
eR be used in the operation, so as not to apply too 
much while the leaves are young and tender, for in that 
state they are soon injured. 
The rose bug is a lightish brown little beetle, with a 
small head, and long prohescis. In some parts of the 
the day-time often in great numbers, and eats the tender 
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