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from Cnjciilio and Codling Motlis. due to the excessive crop of 1891, 

 Tvlien in many nnsprayed orcliards myriads of si^ecimens developed, 

 and tlie comx:>arative scarcity of fruit in 1892. wliicli is nearly all re- 

 quired by tlie excessive number of insects craWng sustenance. Even 

 in sx)rayed orchards injury is quite marked, wliile in some that are nn- 

 sprayed 95 per cent of the fmit is wormy and the rest is deformed by 

 Curculio punctures. I have counted thirty-five crescents on a single 

 apple no larger than a walnut. The Pear Midge has reached ^ew 

 Brunswick, and has, probably, been there since 1891 at least. Found 

 a few infested pears in a well-kept orchard, and in a neighboring, un- 

 cared-for lot of trees, many of them Lawrence, I found a considerable 

 percentage of infested fruit. I have been unable to trace it either south 

 or west of here, and there are some orchards on the direct line between 

 Elizabeth and Xew Brunswick where it has not been found. 



On Cranberry I found, locally, a species of Cacoecia not yet deter- 

 mined and not heretofore recorded on this food-plant. Grasshoppers 

 are complained of as more injurious than ever on the bogs and in some 

 localities have taken to late cabbages. 



Cabbages, by the by. and Cauhflower as well, have suffered rather 

 more than usual from the Boot Maggot and from the larva of Pieris 

 rapa\ 



Growers are rather reticent on the subject, but I have reason to be- 

 lieve that a considerable amount of protection from '' cabbage worms *' 

 is obtained by the use of Paris gTeen. 



Early tomatoes have suffered unusually in the southern part of the 

 State from an attack by the larva of HeVioiliis armiger. The early fr^uit 

 pays so extremely well that truckers are anxious to gain even a day 

 when j)ossible. and every tomato counts. As the earliest fruit was 

 most infested the money injiuy caused by the insect was quite out of 

 proportion to the actaal i)ercentage of fr'uit destroyed. The larva is 

 locally known as the •• heart worm." 



Crioceris l:2-2ninctatus hm made its appearance near Swedesboro in 

 southern Xew Jersey. I found it only on volunteer asparagus shoots 

 near the railroad track, and it does not seem to have entered the culti- 

 vated beds across the fence. 



On May 30, I found one specimen: on June 11. three specimens, and 

 on the 28th. a considerable number of them. July 13 I sought in vain 

 for more, and 1 have not been in the locahty since. How extended its 

 distribution may be in the State I do not know: it has not been com- 

 plained of as yet. nor has it been taken by the Philadelphia collectors. 



Some criticism of my Eose-chafer bulletin was made because I did 

 not personally test the kerosene emulsion, rehing upon Col. A. W. 

 Pearsons dixit that it was ineffective. I had tested the pyrethro-kero- 

 sene mixtm^e. and finding it ineffectual could not believe that kerosene 

 alone could be more efficient. To make assurance doubly sure, how- 

 ever. I made a series of experiments at Tineland. using the Eiley-Hub- 



