MANUAL OP THE APIARY. 



289 



"trill never assume the scale form, though Prof. P. E. Uhler 

 ■writes' me that the males of some bark lice are apterous. 



EEMEDIES. 



If valued shade or honey trees are attacked by these 

 insatiate destroyers, they could probably be saved by discreet 

 pruning — cutting off the affected branches before serious 

 injury was done, or by syringing the trees with a solution of 

 whale oil, soap — or even common soft soap would do — just as 

 the young lice are leaving the scales. It would be still 

 better to have the solution hot. Whitman's Fountain Pump 

 is admirable for making such applications. 



Fig. 1 is slightly magnified ; the others are largely magnified. 



MOTHBEWORT AS A HONEY PLANT. 



(Jjeonurus cardiaea L.) 

 Perhaps; none of our common herbs promises better, as a 



honey plant, than the one in question. 

 Fig. 114. 



It is a very hardy 



-perennial, and once introduced in waste places, it is sure to 

 iiold its own, until it becomes desirable to extirpate it, when, 



