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crawl out to deposit their eggs upon tlie vines, and then 

 die. Fumigation with tabacco under a movable tent is 

 the only known remedy, but in vineyards this is hardly 

 practicable. ( Fat. Off. Report.) 



Rose Bugs are troublesome to rose bushes and fruit trees 

 in sandy soils. They lay their eggs in the earth, which hatch 

 about the time roses bloom. They are sluggish things 

 and the best way is to strike them off the bushes upon 

 cloths and empty them into hot water. 



The Turnip Fly is a general name for several insects 

 which attack the turnip, cabbage, &c., devouring the seed 

 leaves. These are not troublesome in ground manured 

 by yarding cattle and sheep upon them. ' The best pre- 

 ventive is to use guano or any other manure so abounding 

 in phosphates that the turnips are soon out of reach — 

 dusting the plants with Ihne, soot ashes, &c., or keeping 

 broods of chickens in the turnip patch will be found 

 beneficial. 



Mice may be caught in traps, or poisoned with arsenic; 

 but the latter is dangerous if fowls or children have access 

 to the garden. 



Moles are ofien v^y troublesome in undermining beds 

 of cuttings or young plants in search of worms and insects. 

 They may be caught in various traps sold for the purpose, 

 but by putting tarred sticks in their burrows they will be 

 driven from them. Salting the soil is fatal to many insects 

 that are the food of the mole. 



Hares aTid Rabbits are very destructive to trees and 

 garden vegetables in all country places, and even in towns 

 we do not escape, but can be repelled by a tight board 

 fence, or a close hedge of the Macartney rose. Choice 

 trees can be bound up in broom straw during the winter. 



