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sprayings with Bordeaux mixture in which 

 there was a double portion of arsenate of 

 lead — four to five pounds to the barrel. The 

 rose chafer undergoes its development in the 

 ground, preferably in loose, sandy soil, where 

 its grub feeds upon the roots of weeds and 

 shrubs, so that the grubs are rarely seen in 

 the garden. 



There may frequently be seen especially 

 during late summer, upon unsprayed vines, 

 leaves which are rolled or folded together, and 

 held by silken threads. Usually the leaf has 

 been skeletonized, which is the work of the 

 inmate of the fold, the grape leaf-folder. 



The hawK-moth caterpillar which strips the foliage 

 in late summer 



When the silken strands which fasten his 

 front door are broken, the little greenish 

 caterpillar, scarce an inch long, wriggles out 

 with violent contortions, and suspended by 

 a silken thread, quickly drops to the 

 ground, much as does a spider. Were one 

 kept on a fresh leaf under a tumbler it would 

 transform to a brown chrysalis, from which 

 would come a handsome little black moth, 

 with wings spotted with pure white. There 

 are two broods of the insect in a year, the 

 last one passing the winter in the chrysalis 

 stage within a folded leaf. The leaf-folder 

 will rarely be troublesome where the vines 

 have been sprayed; those which do survive 

 the spraying may be readily crushed with 

 the fingers, or by burning the fallen leaves in 

 the autumn. 



Much damage has been done to the vine by 

 the grape root-worm. The adult beetle 

 feeds upon the foliage and may therefore be 



A welcome sight! A caterpillar covered with co- 

 coons of a parasitic fly 



destroyed by using arsenate of lead. The 

 grub lives in the ground, feeding upon the 

 roots. Thorough and frequent cultivation 

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It frequently happens that in late summer 

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 dark reddish-brown caterpillars of the hawk- 

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 eggs. These are the cocoons of little, wasp- 

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 parasitic cocoons should never be destroyed. 



The last of the grape pests to be noticed is 



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