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generally, if well manured and strengthened, though in a dying tree 
doubtless it hastens the death. Our experience here is that Li 
berian Coffee is very liable to insect attacks, as indeed almost 
every cultivated tree is, and a number of moth caterpilla , 
beetles, bugs, aphides and other insects have been described as 
at Kerosene emulsion as recommended by the Director of Kew, 
is as convenient an insecticide a.s one can get, but I have found 
phenyl mixed with water peculiarly deadly to scale insects and 
especially cocci (white blight). It often happens that these Hd- 
miptera are protected by a waxy coating which throws off any or 
dinary liquid before it has had time to penetrate to the animal s 
body. Phenyl acts on the waxy secretion and apparently dis- 
solves it at once, and the unprotected animal dies. The phenyl, 
which is purchased in tins, is mixed with water and stnred till the 
liquid has the appearance of good milk. 
