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in all the gardens in and around Iltica that year, the flower buds 
were so universally killed by this insect that no dahlias were there 
to be had. Other instances, of similar purport, might be cited; these, 
however, amply suffice to show how extremely pernicious this bug is 
liable to be, to this favorite flowering plant. 
Upon the rose I have met with this insect, puncturing the flower 
buds and causing them to perish. Other plants which put forth their 
flowers in June and July it will no doubt be found to attack in the 
same manner. 
On passing along a row of currant bushes, in the month of June, 
two or three contiguous leaves will here and there be noticed, freckled 
with yellow spots, and having one of these bugs secreted upon their 
under side. But I have never known them to invade the currant in 
sufficient force to occasion any appreciable injury. 
To the weigelia it appears to be much more attached and more 
pernicious, sometimes ruining the foliage of this beautiful flowering 
shrub. This present season (1870), a weigelia growing in the Ever¬ 
green Cemetery, Salem, N. Y., so early as the second week in June, 
was so thronged with these bugs that scarcely a leaf remained which 
was not freckled with rusty yellow spots, and many of them were 
wholly destroyed. At the end of the month nearly all of these 
insects had been obliged to leave this shrub, its foliage being dry and 
dead to such an extent that they were no longer able to nourish 
themselves thereon. A few yards distant was another of these shrubs 
which remained green and thrifty, with very few of its leaves dis¬ 
colored with spots from the punctures of this bug. Why did one of 
these shrubs remain unharmed when the other was so badly injured? 
The only cause to which I could impute this difference, was, that the 
former was growing in the shade of other bushes and trees, whilst the 
latter was openly exposed to the sun. And it would hence appear 
that vegetation which is growing in the sunshine is much more 
liable to be injured by this bug than in shaded situations. 
On the bittersweet or henbane, Solanum Dulcamara , I have also 
known it to occur in such numbers as to destroy a portion of the 
leaves. On this shrub the spots are of a grey color, which its punc¬ 
tures produce on the leaves. I once found it quite numerous upon a 
Patch of tansy. In one or more instances I have also met with it, 
freckling with its punctures the leaves of the plantain, soapwort, 
snapdragon, sumach and burning bush. 
Upon the green succulent ends of thrifty stalks of the raspberry 
1 have sometimes noticed blackish spots, identical in their appearance 
