52 8§= Insects. 
BUSHBERG CATALOGUE. 
Insects. 
INSECTS. 
fw oft limited. space only permits us to beset xe Aoter. hag 
rio our own vineyard. 
the most part unnoticed In any park tad aonetl pecsrsend 
on the 
we are indebted te Prof. C.. V. Riles: valuable f eto. 
mological Reports of the State of Hisevari. 
THE GRAPE PHYLLOXERA. 
¢ cranes mana ) 
one 
‘comma attracted as ‘much sthunkion.- i Ree Peis. 
LOXERA, which, in its essential characteristics, was 
unknown when the first edition of this little work on 
erican 
ywers aeany years ago (especially on ' the a 
ea but the y kn 
Fuller—who 
lene us that in Mr. amare: ae 
e knots—never — anything of —— nor 
of an excellent Treatise on 
the Cultivation of the Native pom though = pages 
France in 1871, a then exten ending his 
observations here, some of which 
—M. Laliman, of Bordesux, having parr 
merican 
_ Vines in the midst of —_— vines dying at the 
pow 
sess. His investigations not only corroborated Prof. 
Riley’s conclusions Phylloxera, but 
- of theinsect. On carefull 
Ph Ih pe | 
stocks on which to grow ‘the more rosceptible Baro- ~ eor 
has induc naan few thousand 
planis an and SEEMS gratis, ~ testing, to oman 
nce, 
mense os for the resistant varieties 
ody discuss this subject as it deserves ; ‘to givea a 
ry of the oe SS progress and exten 
pee itsrava ade to prevent then: : 
to review the ARES which it had and probably will 
have on American grape culture, would far exceed the 
scope of this brief manual. The literature ma oe sub- 
ject would fill a respectable. library We x hee 
ihier ely ao 
Lm Seg 
may grap t i d observe 
-= a yet s0 important insect ane we refer 
to Pro. 
Riley’s Entomological Reports, from whi ch we cull 
largely. It wi understood that the figures, which 
are from the same R i de by 
Prof. Riley fro ure, are generally very highly 
magnified, and that the natural sizes are indicated by 
dots within circles, or by lines. 
The following figure of a grape-leaf shows the galls 
or excrescences produced by the gall-inhabiting type 
y opening one of the galls, we 
find the mother louse diligently at work surroundin 
herself with pale yellow eggs, scarcely (.01) the one- 
hundredth part of an inch long, and not quite half as 
Under side of Leaf covers’ with Galls, nat. size. 
thick. Sheis ewig Fe inch long, of adull orange color, 
and does not Io 
mon purslane. The eggs begin 
days old, into active little beings, which diff 
to hatch, when 6or8s 
er from 
