ce Las bitter « extract ponders the plants treated with | it very distasteful 
. to the beetl 
The liquid applications should be applied with a syringe, pee 
- produces a fine spray. Both liquid and dry substances should be. 
tributed early in the morning whilst the dew is on the plants. and the 
: beetles torpid and inactive. 
_ The land should be kept as clean as possible, all rubbish, broken 
wood, &e. should be cleared a way. It is possible that the beetles : Das: 
e 
the wi : er- 
wise destroyed. All weeds should be ‘removed, and it should be noted 
whether the beetles attack any common weed, as the Turnip flea does the 
: ock, in which case special precautions oad be taken for the 
. deep mode of cultivation is often useful, as it serves to e the 
beetles pr the pupz at a depth from which they cannot heme T 
a tem ttsparate climates the Halticide can be kept away from a 
2 23 the presence of moisture and shade, they flourish only in- sm 
. places. 
A method which has been much used in the United States, 
fighting with the Grape-vine Flea beetle Wire Hatin 
chalybea, i is to shake the beetle off the vine into pans contai kerosene 
or some such oil Another method is to shake them -into a piece 
canvas, kept open by two sticks, one at each end, the canvas havi 
ne kills the ern almost at once. Smearing the pan 
A canvas with. tar, kept moist by admixture with oil or  gresse,- 
December 15, 1888. 
LXXVII. —FIBRE FROM LAGOS. 
| (Honckenya Jicifolia, Willd. I 
"Botanical specimens as well as a specimen of. fibre | : were 
ceived at Kew through the Colonial Office from the Gove 
iy for the first time, a e fibre- 
Adrien - The plant has been determined as Honeke 
Wild. (Clappertonia ficifolia, Decaisne), a member of 
order Ti Hiacee.. It is fully described. an Oli iver, i 
