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the roots upon the ground would also kill the aphides, but care should 

 be exercised not to apply it at too high a temperature, by first experi- 

 menting with a single plant. 



The lily pest of which complaint is made, is, without doubt, a species 

 of " thousand-legged worm," belonging, not to the 

 insects, but to the Myriapoda. Many of these 

 species are known to feed upon the roots and under- 

 ground portion of the stalk of various plants. Lime 

 water has generally been recommended for killing 

 „„ _, ^ them, as also nitrate of soda spread about the stalks 



Fig. 33.— Thousand- ' . ^ . 



legged worms. and water poured upon it to carry it into the 

 ground. — ^Country Gentleman^ of June 23d, 1892.) 



The following notice of these insects and suggestions of remedies 

 for them, is from the Neio England Homestead of August 24th: 



Blight in Asters. — WhcD asters blight or look yellow the trouble 

 is often caused by root-lice. They are of two kinds, the white and the 

 green. When planting, wood ashes should be raked in freely where 

 the plants are to stand. To kill these pests, take a watering pot hold- 

 ing eight quarts of water and stir in three tablespoonfuls of hellebore. 

 Water the plants thoroughly so that the water will soak in around the 

 roots. Tobacco water or kerosene oil in dilution is also good. 



Kent county, R. I. W. H. T. 



Some Apple-tree Insects. 



The fruit-growers of our county have learned to look to you for 

 counsel and advice m time of trouble. My apple orchard is infested 

 with more lice than all Egypt produced in the lifetime of Moses. I 

 send you specimens in No. 1 of the most numerous of these foul 

 insects. They cover and enwrap themselves in the foliage, and eat and 

 destroy, as you will see on examination of what I send you. They 

 also nest under the loose bark of the limbs and body of the tree. 



There is also a green louse, not nearly so numerous, that gathers on 

 a part of the apple which is covered by foliage, seemingly trjdng to 

 hide themselves from view. They do not appear to eat the apples, but 

 simply cluster in droves on the covered or hidden part of the fruit — 

 perhaps doing no serious harm. 



I inclose pieces of bark covered with lice which seem to be dead. 

 There are a good many of these. Are they of any special harm to the 

 trees; if they are, what is to be done to destroy them? 



I have suffered greatly from the bud-worm — a little brown, black- 

 headed worm or insect. I sprayed for these about the 12th of May 

 with Paris green and London purple, but I suppose that I was ten or 

 twelve days too late. The spraying may have affected them some, but 

 I think not much. 



I inclose some imperfect fruit, the checked development of which is 

 probably caused by the lice destroying the foliage surrounding it. Is 

 there any indication in the examples sent of the workings of the cod- 



