AMEBIC AN HOME GARDEN. 99 



CHAPTER X. 



Insects injurious to Garden Vegetables, &c. — Aphides. — Larvae, or Worms. 



—Moles. 



WINGED INSECTS. 

 Aphides, or " Green Flies,'" &c. 



Fig. 02. 

 b 



Fig. 62. 



ff, natural size ; 6, !>, magnified. 



Cabbage Aphis, Aphis Brasicaj, 

 Corn " " Maidis, 



Hop " " Hnmuli, . 



Lettuce " " Lactuc£e,J 



The cabbage, corn, hop, and lettuce aphides, though distin- 

 guished by entomologists, need not be distinguished here. 

 Their names indicate the particular plants they infest, the rem- 

 edies are the same for all, and each, we may be sm'e, is pursued 

 by its destroyers. 



The first is found on all unhealthy and ill-cultivated cal> 

 bages, and the only remedy, or rather preventive, is good cul- 

 ture, successful m producing unchecked gi-owth. 



The second appears only occasionally, and usually or always 

 upon the green ear-set of the corn, at the extremity of the 

 husk. 



The third is sometimes troublesome upon the hop, where it 

 is cultivated as a farm crop Showering with pretty strong- 

 tobacco- water, or sowing dry ashes, or lime, or plaster upm 

 them in the dew, are worthy of trial with a view to their pre- 

 vention or destruction. 



