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deposit their eggs, for then the task would be 
endless and useless, as they generally choose the 
most secret places for that purpose, namely 
among the bark in the pits, chinks or crevices in 
walls, joints of the plant, and such concealments. 
There are a great many Recipes for the de- 
struction of the Pine Bug, most of which direct 
one or more of the ingredients to be used, which 
we find laid down by Nichols ; and as the only 
article that may be said to be of any use is the 
soft soap, the subjoining of Nichols’s and Muir- 
head’s Recipes shall suffice. 
Nichols says, “ take soft soap one pound, 
flour of sulphur one pound, tobacco half pound, 
nux vomica an ounce, soft water four gallons ; 
boil all these together till the liquor is reduced to 
tliree gallons; and set aside to cool. In this liquor 
immerse the whole plant, after the root and leaves 
are ti-immed for potting. Plants in any other state, 
and which ai'e placed in the bark bed, may safely 
be watered overhead, with the liquor reduced in 
strength by the addition of three parts water. As 
the Bug harbours most in the angles of the leaves, 
there is the better chance that the medicated water 
will be effectual, because it will there remain the 
longest, and there its sediment will settle. The 
above is a remedy for every species of the Coccus, 
and for most insects. On account of its strength 
and glutinous nature, its application will make 
the plant look dirty, therefore as soon as the in- 
tended ettect may be supposed to liave followed. 
