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Quince tree borer. (Country genileman, Ap. 9,1891. 56:294*®). 

 Recommends soft soap aud carbolic acid wash. 



Honey dew on pear twigs. (Country gentleman. Ap. 16, 1891. 



56:317") 



It has no couuectiou witL apple scab. Probably tbe trees had been 

 attacked hj Psylla pyri \^i)yricola']. 



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

 honey bees ?] (Country gentleman. Ap. 16, 189 1. 56 : 317^^) 



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

 should be determined by experiiiieut. 



Entomology. (37t,h annual meeting of the western New York horticul- 

 tural society. Proceedings. Jan. 28 and 2.9, r89i. April 1891. 

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



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

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

 Effect of londou purple on the phim. London purple on the peach. Solubility 

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

 the arseuites. Fnngicides combined with the arseuites. Spraying for the 

 plum curculio. Spraying for the codling moth, New iusecticidal 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^') 



The following are noticed: apple aphis, Aphis mail Fabr. ; a])ple tree case 

 bearer, Coleoplwra maUvoreUa Riley; eye spotted bud- moth, Tmetocera 

 ocellana Schiff.; apple leaf Bucculatrix, B. po7nifoUeUa Clem.; pear tree Psy 11a, 

 Psylla pyri \jpyricola'\, and remedies given. 



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



Not caused by Typlilodromus oleivorus, but may possibly be owing 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 inorning express. May 19, 1891. p. 

 55 : 8, col. i) 

 Pyre thrum recommended for the destructiou of Cermatia IScutigera'] forceps. 



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

 Gives several methods of protecting recentlj' planted corn. 



