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Quince tree borer. (Country gentleman. Ap. 9, 1891. 56:294^^) 



Recommends soft soap aiad carbolic acid wash. 

 Honey dew on pear twigs. (Country gentleman. Ap. i6, 1891. 



56:317^^) 

 It has no couuection with apple scab. Probably the trees had been 



attacked by Psylla pyri [jji/r/coZrt]. 

 Arsenic and honey — experiments. [Is arsenical spraying harmful to 

 honey bees ?] (Country gentleman. Ap. 16, 1891. 56 : 317^^) 



The liability of bees to be poisoned from blossoms sprayed with arseuites 

 shoukl be determined by experiment. 

 Entomology. (37th annual meeting of the western New York horticul- 

 tural society. Proceedings. Jan. 28 and 29, 1891. April 1891. 

 p. 10-17. Also, as separates, 8 p.) • 



Report of the society's committee on entomology, upon ' Spraying with 

 iDsecticides,' and ' Some garden and orchard insects.' Topics embraced are : 

 Effect of london purple on the plum. London purple on the peach. Solubility 

 of london purple. An efficient nozzle for low sprayiug. Addition of lime to 

 the arsenites. Fuugicides combined with the arsenites. Spraying for the 

 plum curculio. Spraying for the codling moth, New insecticidal machine. 

 Insecticides lately recommended. Protection from the striped cucumber 

 beetle. Apple curculio. Pear blight beetle. Rose bug. Marguerite fly. 

 Bean weevil. 

 How to control the hop aphis. (New England homestead. May 2, 



1891. 25: 193, col. i) 

 Gives remedies and manner of applying them. 



Apple tree insects of early spring. (Country gentleman. May 7, 1891. 



56:374^^-75^^) 

 ThefoUowiug are noticed: apple aphis, .4j>/»-.v wmZi Fabr. ; apple tree case 



bearer, Coleophora maUvoreUa Riley; eye spotted bud moth, Tmetocera 



ocellana Schiff.; apple leaf Bucculatrix, B. pomifoliella Clem.-, pear tree Psylla, 



Psylla pyri [jyyricolal, and remedies given. 

 Orange leaf trouble. (Country gentleman. May 7, 1891. 56 : 375^8) 



Not caused by Typldodromns oleivorus, but may possibly be owiug to an 



attack by a species of Lecanium or Ceroplastes. 

 How to kill the rose bug. (New England homestead. May 9, 1891. 



25 : 205, col. i) 



Recommends hand picking or spraying with sludge oil soap solution. 



[Cermatia centipede.] (Albany morning express. May 19, 189 r. p. 



55: 8, col. i) 



Pyrethrum recommended for the destruction of Cermatia lScnU<iv.ra-] forceps. 



Wire worms in corn. (Country gentleman. May 28, 1891. 56 : 431*^) 

 Gives several methods of protecting recently planted corn. 



