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BOOK NOTICE. 



Insects Injurious to Fruits ; by William Saunders. Second edition. Philadelphia 

 J. B. Lippincott Company, 1 vol., 8vo, pp. 436. 



It is with very great pleasure that we announce the publication of the second edition 

 of this valuable and important work. That a new issue should be called for is a most 

 satisfactory proof of the excellence and permanent usefulness of the book, and establishes 

 the fact that Prof. Saunders has provided the fruit growers of North America with a. 

 standard manual upon the insect enemies that they have to contend with. 



Six years have gone by since the issue of the first edition, and during that time great 

 and steadily increasing attention has been given to the study of economic entomology,, 

 with the result that many new methods have been discovered for successfully combatting 

 the ravages of noxious insects. The most important and useful of these the author has 

 now embodied in his book, and has done so with very little change in the text of the 

 work. A superficial reader would hardly notice the alterations, but we find that many 

 have been made, and that they bring down the information given to the knowledge of 

 the present day. As an example, we may mention the insertion among the remedies for 

 the codling worm, of the apple and the plum curculio, the recently discovered method of 

 spraying with a mixture of Paris green and water, which has proved so eminently successful^ 



For the information of those of our readers who are not already familiar with the 

 work, we may mention that the insects treated of are grouped under the name of the 

 particular fruit that they attack, and are arranged in order according as they affect the 

 root, trunk, branches, leaves and fruit. An illustrated life history is given of each, fol- 

 lowed by an account of the most useful remedies that may be employed and of any para- 

 sitic insects that assist in keeping the pest in check. Twenty of the most important 

 fruits are dealt with, and two hundred and sixty-six noxious insects and a large number 

 of beneficial ones are more or less fully described. The book is beautifully printed on 

 fine paper, and illustrated with four hundred and forty admirable wood cuts. 



While this work is simply indispensable to the intelligent horticulturist, it is als° 

 of great value to the practical entomologist and a most useful book to place in the hands 

 of beginners. The young collector will find in its pages figures and descriptions of most 

 of the insects he meets with, and the more advanced student cannot fail to learn from it 

 much that would otherwise escape his observation. 



