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ooonpants of our stoves. The insects must be carefully 

 •washed off by means of a small brush, and warm soft soap 

 and water, or they may be kept under by employing some 

 of the specifics which are advertised at the end of the 

 volume, all of which we have found excellent remedies, 

 so that we cannot recommend one in preference to others. 



Tlie Turtle or Brown Scale is also a great pest, par- 

 ticularly to certain kinds of plants, it may however be 

 destroyed in the same manner as the Mealy Bug. 



The Thrips is a very injurious insect, but it may be 

 eradicated by fiimigation with tobacco or tobacco paper, 

 which, if properly used, will totally destroy it : or the 

 plant may be syringed with, some of the before-mentioned 

 remedies. 



The Bed Spider speedily renders unsightly the foliage 

 of any plant that it attacks, destroying the fresh green- 

 ness of the leaves, and turning them to a dirty white or 

 brown. The most effectual mode of destroying this pest, 

 when it has been allowed to spread, is to sprinkle some 

 flowers of sulphur upon the hot-water pipes, and ^hut 

 the house up close ; this remedy must be used with great 

 «are, for if the pipes should be too warm the foliage 

 would suffer. It is far better, however, to keep a careful 

 watch upon the plants, and destroy the spider when it 

 flrst makes its appearance, as extreme measures often- 

 times cause the death of the plants. It cannot live in a 

 thoroughly moist atmosphere. 



Some cultivators maintain that insects are in all cases 

 the effects of disease, and not the cause ; and that plants, 

 when treated in a proper manner, will not become in- 

 fested by them. Though not prepared to endorse this 

 assertion in its fullest sense, we yet believe it to be 

 correct so far as this — ^that sickly or unhealthy plants 



