Insects, etc., Injurious to the Pectch. 





by a siug-lc individual. Tho feuialus 

 of the male in this country. The 

 wlieu first hatclied und heeome dark 

 greenish to yreeuisli-yeilow or i)ale 

 reddish and endt very long and line 

 glass-like filaments IV.jm hdth ex- 

 tremities. 



They wander over the si Is and 



foliage where they take up (heir 

 abode; liewstead finds that some 

 may be still seen migrating in the 

 autumn. They pass the winter as 

 full-fed larva', scarcely \'isihlc to 

 the md-;ed eye, and moult in sjjring 

 when growth becomes \-ery rapid, 

 a,nd the mature female form is soon 

 produced. The ova are almost 

 white. The winged male has not 

 been seen in this country. It seems 

 to be the young tender shoots iif 

 the peach that are attacked, and 

 there on the greerr wood the scale 

 insects soon produce discoloration 

 and the shoots die away. 



Those that get on to the lea\'es, 

 of course, fall with them ami die. 



reproiuce without the ag 

 Iar7;e are yellow or pale 



ency 

 red 



Tl;EATMK\T. 



The liest thing in peach houses is sponging with paratlin emulsion 

 in winter oi' spraying with the sa.me. Good results lia\'e been re[ioited 

 of the use of caustic alkali wash. Many gardeneis have told me this 

 has been cj^uite successful as a winter dressing. 



IIeferences. 



(1| Nriv.itniiJ, I-,'. ■ A Monugrapli of the Britisli CoeciJiL-,' vol. II.. p. «!» (1908). 

 (2) Fcniahl, Maria E. ' A Catalo.yue of tlie Coec-iilic of the "Wort;!.' \\. 19 

 (19031. 



