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die GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[AUGUST 29, 1874, 
rips seg sh ge the ae ging of these lice, it required 
o effort d the fearful Hag ity at which 
the Phsllosers. pasa haggle a bie: > or the 
erage Sax, 4 it has magine such 
ostly compos eek R. aen pai females, 
mate iting, or mere „rapidly Bor from vine- 
t imagine them settling a the 
Vines a depositing thei eggs, which g irth to 
fecund fem whos roge me in five pee eg 
and daobably ina sities season, may be numbered by 
billions, and you a should there be no 
conditions to prevent , Which, although 
invisible easily un ponesi may become as blast- 
ing as the eyi 
the weather being 
uite w a mer-like, with much moisture in 
the atmosphere, I witnessed the same power of flight 
in the Grape Phylloxera. Some winged indi- 
viduals, whi had c ed, became very active 
and restless, ously vibrating their wings 
beating about their glass si age Upon opening the 
cages, t lice began dart away and were out of 
e 
They have been caught in spider- 
pe, and I have re m 
egs 
TE tang these pcb females med w a preference fo 
any one part of the Vine in the consignment of their 
eggs, is not yet gs e 
pea do ati ter the 
a leaf-stem, furnish 
Teti nidi. n this 
ineyard,. 
guttings 
or from 
as upon. 
well upon cu 
he 
Sted riin re pieri the wint 
Rea eggs, w 
ronga absence from home, and un- 
fortunately (Balbian ery was unknown to me 
which would distinguish them from the 
apterous females, 
° Diferent Vines to the Disease. —As 
with the Phylloxera disease, a 
different _ Bieri ae ah be made of an 
im As is so uentl: the 
with ra tn Nd Baier and by si 
n the 
n Curran 
o which badly affect the 1 fetes o of $3 
i ba never tou the Goose 
m 
"readily, the more vigorous growers 
i eo OF Sat 
tion à 
pina). r 
Janchon it results—as was anti 
* Fifth Rep., pp. 72, 73. 
the la 
chars ie the great differences in character which 
it presents compared with the SERTEN e ei 
2 ‘entirely free from 3 der oxera in any fo The 
nly very tough, but has a perceptibiy 
bitter iet "which, doubtless, venice it obnoxio us to 
Professor 
n Ne orth Ca: rolina, bi beng d Vines in the vicinity 
were suffering a om the 
From the eration we ` may ather that, with 
ulpina, no nna p cultiva ted 
Vine is enti rely free from ne attacks either the 
aha or root-inhabiting types ; Tortie 
ripadlā most su 
the exception r Viti is v 
9 
FH 
viniiferă a ject to the 
fo osm  æstivalis least and vinifera most subject to 
Of TARE a few varieties Se certain conditions 
seem to exhibit a degree of resist 
pony it is m t that some re lati 
as ye oticed among the varieties of this species 
in Euro 
Proph eS Means oe Coping with the Disease.—It 
occurred to me that by ing the more susceptible 
on to the poe of ne sabe resi ieti 
Vines regardless 
fear that n ca oa remedy for such an undergrou 
enemy wile ever be disc overed ard will not entail 
too much labour expense udo 
extent, by our o 
on the business ae 
Yet if it shall ce be demonstrated bea varieties 
which now m 
ose 
growe 
tte as as the Catawba, for instance, as it already is 
ar growers to use the Quince, or amon 
Chetty PS to use Mahaleb, Mazard, or Morello, 
— 
e course of a year or aa Ba shall be able to 
niriy judge of the efficacy of t an, for, aside from 
paps am ee in thie country, mie are 
in in Franc Quite 
a cA ut gon ae for the purpose of experiment, 
were sent over the “a from this country in pe spring 
mand has n 
of 1872 ; and the w become so great 
į that a sin ell idor Bush eo aii 
as lately rders for about 40 cuttings 
ed to one place, Montpellier, and con- 
sisi ch as have been recommend 
by Professor Planchon a as best resisting 
h There is every reaso hope for the 
best results from these mponshonn as those Vines, 
such as Herbemont, UNR ngh yji escape Clinton, 
&e., a h best resist here, an planted 
ich 
ther 1871 and 1872, in Palos miie dis- 
hisa k thus far, d gly well, as MM, 
J pay nhar art-Fomier V, Pulliat, pe a testify. 
s beari een that t 
Southere E Fox (Vitis vulpina) is the only species that is 
totally shear t from both leaf and root-lice. This 
species is of no Tia whatever in the latitude of St. 
ea cad does not flourish above latitude 35°, It 
any avail here, and it 
to profit 
immunity in the blighted French - vineyards, ro 
grow and ripen its fruit in the extreme southern a 
tion of ne pag but its requires a special mode 
of culture, and th and i lari i 
l French Vineyards, Itis well to 
Consider possible — and wen save sore dis- 
appointments.. 
been found to thrive 
The insect has 
eherelore pary injurious, in a sandy soil; while a mix- 
less, and to be, | 
= 
ure of soot with s soil has had a igen cial effect i 
dako) ying | the pest. I ha : récomimEMA = 
for the more susc eeu ‘varieties, that hee 
planted p a trenches first ared 
sand and s An addi 
anal Brae wth. At Mr. Thos, Meehan’ 
on the Roster ballivated Clintons in the Ba a 
the lice were found without difficulty. 
Natural Enemies. —Therė are a number of di 
predaceous insects ae serve to 
in check, but, a 
fferent 
keep the leaf-lice 
black species of fringe- -wing or thrips with white 
we cae oA en of my M 
nt aid in the destruction of the 
the lac ce-wing flies, one 
“ae 
own mage 4 ) 
pis Frá n sby the peculiarly eo otik asof 
human ordure, which so ` 
ext in o; £ 
E a 
white and evenly- shorn t 
are fregubitly found a their good wor 
galls.  Followin ihe may be 
certain Syrphus-fly larve, whic 
blind, go groping about among the eggs and young 
lice, "which they seize an ath. Also — 
certain 7 
The enemi 
ground are, na 
one instance I have fi 
work 6 inches below 
Syrphus-fly (Pip 
the underground e 
have discovered a mite 
this root-inhabitin: type; 
aid in ke 
“9 the cheese an 
tr. Linn, ), and t x ie ays, entomop 
Paboultene) which infty es Sane 
such a pest in cabinets. 
Asi he rule 
is born with but a oe but ‘seals eight aft 
first or ore aii. me ng it "oia 
th i wit 
wit eid T sie 
tinguiskfing it spe eas ta po disni a 
Pek ced all the different tarsal characters, 
an i gen 
ma dis 
Seit studied the development of these 
h 
the genera Astoma, Leptus, Caris 
now known to be but the larval forms, some 
m with as t 
with the e perfect and ma 
erent mr at Tyroglyphus, so fit known, prey 
vegetabl d animal su . 
€ are in a decaying or p 
ch te: from b p 
loxera, while when older it preys 
i 
unctures 
meso 
lar feature in the Pe of many 
a the genus Tyroglyphus t difer fact iik 
ie et as dy stated, hab has been fou 
upon living animals, trogen § 
"Studien an Acariden; rasta T 
