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this with the soap water ; and finally to mix the sul- 

 phur also. The soap and the clay form a body, and 

 prevent the sulphur washing or rubbing off. {John- 

 son and Barnes on the Pine Apple, ii. 128.) 



Otiorhyncus tenehricosus, — The red-legged garden 

 weevil. — The maggots of this are found round the 

 base of the stems of wall-fruit, sometimes in very 

 great quantities, a few inches below the surface, where 

 they undergo their transformations. The beetles, 

 which are old offenders, come out only at night to 

 feed upon the buds of wall-fruit, doing great mischief 

 to apricots, peaches, nectarines, plums, &c. They 

 first destroy the fruit, and subsequently attack the 

 bark and leaves, so as not unfrequently to endanger 

 the life of the trees. They commence their depreda- 

 tions in April by eating the unexpanded blossom-buds, 

 clearing out the centre, and leaving only the external 

 bractea, and occasionally fragments of the immature 

 leaves. They will thus proceed along a branch until 

 all the buds are destroyed, and afterwards demolish 

 the young eyes which ought to produce wood-shoots 

 until nothing is left but the bare branches. The 



