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will be a constant, and tiresome employment ; 

 on the contrary, if regularly done, one opera- 

 tion will be of more service, than five if exe- 

 cuted in a careless inattentive manner. 



As each individual plant is picked it should 

 be carefully washed with a strong lixivium of 

 soft soap and water ; which will have a power- 

 ful effect on their remains or young ovaria, 

 which are in general sufficiently small to elude 

 the eye, or perhaps so situated within the 

 young buds, that they cannot be got at without 

 materially injuring the future growth; the 

 wash will, however, penetrate into these secret 

 holds, and in general be fully adequate to their 

 destruction. 



When the plants are out of the houses in 

 summer, every part of it should be well washed 

 with strong soap suds, in which a little of the 

 same tobacco, as used for fumigating, has been 

 infused ; in particular, all the joints of the 

 woodwork, and also whatever nail-holes, or 

 other crevices may happen to be therein ; as in 

 these places, some of the species, more espe- 

 cially the white meally bug, is much inclined 

 to secrete itself for breeding. This operation 

 will how r ever, if performed in Spring and 



