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six inches wide and made of heavy wrapping paper smeared with a thick 

 layer of printer's ink or of tar thinned with oil. 



Green Fruit Worms. 



These are light green caterpillars marked with three cream-coloured 

 stripes, and attack young Apples when about the size of a Pea, often eating 

 a large part of the fruit away. They will also attack Pears, Plums, 

 Currants, £c. One caterpillar will spoil several Apples one after the other, 

 doing this work in May and early June. The parent moths fly only at 

 night and are attracted by lights. The insects pupate under ground, 

 the eggs being laid in early spring and hatching in a few days. 



They are subject to poisoning with the arsenical spray, but after they 

 have begun their attacks upon the fruit it would seem that they can only 

 be reached by jarring the trees and catching the insects on sheets or 

 ssreens. 



A new Apple Insect. 



This new discovery, which has been given the name of the Apple 

 flea-weevil (Orcliestes pallicarnis), is a minute black beetle — one of the 

 snout-beetles ; that is, having the front of the head drawn out into a 

 slender beak, somewhat like that of the curculio. It jumps like a flea by 

 means of powerful hind legs. Its complete life history is not known, but 

 it evidently passes its whole life cycle on the tree. The beetles when they 

 come out feed upon the under surface of the leaf, eating round holes. 



The Pear-leaf Blister in Nurseries. 



The author wishes to emphasise the fact, which seems not generally 

 known to nurserymen and orchardists, that this mite (PJiytoptus pyri) 

 may be destroyed in winter either by spraying infested nursery stock with 

 kerosene in some suitable form or by fumigating the trees with hydro- 

 cyanic acid gas. The microscopic mites pass the winter alive among the 

 scales of the buds of trees infested the previous year. — V. J. 'M. 



Epiphytes. From a lecture given by E. A. Eolfe, A.L.S. (Orch. Bev. 

 p. 102 ; April 1902). — One of the most instructive and interesting papers 

 ever published in this work. It is a pity the whole lecture as given to the 

 Kew Gardeners' Mutual Improvement Society is not given. The notes 

 are so full of interesting matter in respect to epiphytal plants. — H. J. C. 



Epemophila calycina. By S. L. Moore {Journ. Bot. 469, p. 28 ; 

 1/1902). — Description of a new species, allied to E.-Duttoni, collected by 

 Mrs. Capt. Grey near the head of St. Vincent's Gulf. — G. S. B. 



EremuPUS PObustus. By C. Crusius (Die Gart. p. 157 ; 4/1 1902). 

 Eremurus robustus, collected at first by the Eussian botanist P. P. 

 Semenow in the Himalayas at an altitude of 2,000-3,000 metres, and 

 described by Dr. Eegel as Henningia robust a. Full particulars of culture, 

 wuth illustration. — G. B. 



Epythronium obtusatum, n. sp. By L, N. Goodding (Bot. Gaz. 



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