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lays there like a honeycomb, and there are a great number of eggs 

 in each cell. The only plan I have seen effectual is that adopted 

 by Mr. Tealey, at Doncaster — zinc collars round the trees, then 

 as the beetles crawl up they can be caught underneath this shield. 

 As for spraying or anything like that I think it is useless. The 

 prosops perforates the branches, and the tree, especially apples, 

 is killed and destroyed. For that the resin compound is the 

 most successful. The red spider attacks not only the apple and 

 plum, but nearly all varieties of trees. I find the most effectual 

 way for its suppression is to spray the trees after pruning in the 

 winter with a strong solution of carbolic acid or something like 

 that, 1 in 60 ; there will then bg few found in the following spring. 

 The kerosene emulsion I generally use, about 1 in 20, and it is 

 effectual in destroying them. As to the apricot the diseases 

 affecting them are mostly shot-hole fungus, the brown scale, the 

 brown aphis, the black spot, and the root-borer. The remedies I 

 have found most effectual for the shot-hole fungus are sulphate of 

 copper, but some use one solution and some another. Tobacco, 

 soft soap, magic soap, 1 lb. to eight gallons, and some use caustic 

 soda and resin like a composition of resin compound. The aphis 

 is very easy to kill, but I find the best way to attack it on the 

 peach and the apricot is to clear the earth from around the trees 

 and spray the trees after pruning with either sulphate of copper 

 or sulphate of iron. I prefer the latter. The aphis is round the 

 roots of the trees, and if sprayed with a very strong solution in the 

 winter will die. Then in the following spring if a paper bandage 

 be pasted round the tree, and then some tar put on the top of the 

 paper the fresh brood may be caught when climbing up. If you 

 are spraying the tree all the time, you are working at the top 

 instead of at the bottom. The seat of most of the diseases is at 

 the roots. The same applies to green aphis and curl leaf in the 

 peach, and also the rust. The curl leaf is a very small white 

 insect. It was generally supposed to be a fungus but it is not. I 

 clearly proved that at one of the meetings of our society, and 

 Mr. McAlpine inspected the thing and has reported to the same 

 effect. If the trees are well sprayed in the winter there is very 

 little curl leaf or aphis, brown or green, but if it does appear in the 

 spring we have to spray it. The nectarine is subject to the brown 

 aphis. Quinces are subject to the pear slug for which Hellebore is 

 used, and waxy scale, the cure for which is kerosene emulsion. 

 In the orange and lemon we have the red scale. Lime dusted on 

 the trees or fine wood ashes or kerosene emulsion should be used. 

 1 in 14 or 1 in 20 is the most effectual remedy for that. Pears 

 are afflicted with the phytoptus, which is a small insect causing 

 the leaves to turn red on the outside of the rims mostly. It is a 

 very difficult thing to destroy, but the emulsion answers the 

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