37° NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Quince tree borer. (Country gentleman. Ap. 9, iSgr. 56:294*') 



Eecommends soft soap and carbolic acid wash. 

 Honey dew on pear twigs. (Country gentleman. Ap. 16, 1891. 



56:317") 



It has no oounectiou with apple scab. Probably the trees had been 

 attacked by Psyllapyri [pyricola]. 



Arsenic and honey — experiments. [Is arseriical spraying harmful to 

 honeybees?] (Country gentleman. Ap. r6, 1891. 56:317'^') 



The liability of bees to be poisoned from blossoms sprayed with arseuiles 

 should be determined by experiment. 



Entomology. (37th annual meeting of the western New York horticul- 

 tural society. Proceedings. Jan. 28 and 29, 1891. April 1891. 

 p. ro-17. Also, as separates, 8 p.) 



Report of the society's committee on entomology, upon ' Spraying with 

 insecticides,' and ' Some garden and orchard insects.' Topics embraced are : 

 Effect of london purple on the plum . London purple on the peach. Solubility 

 of london purple. An efficient nozzle for low spraying. Addition of lime to 

 the arsenites. Fungicides combined with the arsenites. Spraying for the 

 plum curculio. Spraying for the codling moth, New inseoticidal machine. 

 Insecticides lately recommended. Protection from the striped cucumber 

 beetle. Apple curculio. Pear blight beetle. Kose bug. Marguerite fly. 

 Bean weevil. 



How to control the hop aphis. (New England homestead. May 2, 

 1891. 25: 193, col. i) 

 Gives remedies and manner of applying them. 



Apple tree insects of early spring. (Country gentleman. May 7, 1891. 



The following are noticed: apple a,]ihie, ApMs mali Fa\)T. ; apple tree case 

 bearer, Coleophora malivorella Riley; eye spotted bud moth, Tmetocera 

 ocelluna Schiff.; apple leaf Buoculatrix, B. pomifoUella Clem.; pear treePsylla, 

 Psyllapyri [jpyricola], and remedies given. 



Orange leaf trouble. (Country gentleman. May 7, rSgr. 56 : 375^') 



Not caused by TypModromus oleivorus, but may possibly be owing to an 

 attack by a species of Lecanium or Ceroplastes. 



How to kill the rose bug. (New England homestead. May 9, 1891. 

 25 : 205, col. i) 

 Eecommends hand picking or spraying with sludge oil soap solution. 



[Cermatia centipede.] (Albany morning express. May 19, i89r. p. 

 55 : 8, col. i) 

 Pyrethrum recommended for the destruction of Cermatia [Scutigera'] forceps. 



Wire worms in corn, (Country gentleman. May 28, 1891. 56:431*') 

 Gives several methods of protecting recently planted corn. 



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