INDEX. 
Abraxas grossulariata, 64 
Alkali waste, 44, 45 
American blight, 1 
Anthomyia betae, 9 
,, ceparum, 77 
,, floralis, 10 
,, platura, 77 
Anthonomus pomorum, 2 
Apliis, Bean, 8 
,, Cherry, 18 
„ Hop, 67 
„ Woolly, 1 
Apple-blossom Weevil, 2 
Asli-bark Beetle, 4 
,, winter tunnels of, 3—5 
Asparagus Beetle, 7 
Atlialia spin arum, 95 
Bean Aphis, 8 
Beet Fly, 9 
Birds, may be too numerous, v 
Black Dolphin, 8 
“ Black Jacks,” 74 
Boll of Barley, 54 
,, Oats, 54 
,, Wheat, 25 
Bone dust, 60 
Breast ploughing, 29 
Bush harrow, 53 
Cabbage-root Fly, 10 
,, various kinds of, 10 
Cabbage Butterfly, 9 
,, Moth, 11 
Carrot Fly, 11 
,, treatment to prevent, 12 
Cecidomyia (? albilabris), 89 
,, tritici, 19 
Ceutorhynclius contractus, 94 
,, sulcicollis, 95 
Cheimatobia brumata, 3 
Cherry Aphis, 13 
Chlorops tseniopus, 17 
Click Beetle, 22—25 
,, egg laying, to prevent, 
26—28 
Clover-root Weevil, 13 
,, history of, 13, 14 
,, loss from, 14 
Coccinella septempunctata, 67 
Cockchafer, 85 
Cockchafer, in Fir plantation, 85 
Collier, 8 
Composts, 12 
Crane Fly, 16 
Crioceris asparagi, 7 
Cuckoo Fly, 73 
Daddy Longlegs, 16 
,, „ grubs cleared, 17 
Death’s Head Moth, 90 
Depressaria Heracleana, 80 
Dissolved bones, 35, 58 
Elater (Agriotes) lineatus, 22 
,, obscurus, 22 
Euacanthus interruptus, 73 
False Wireworms, 50 
Frog Fly, 73 
Gas-lime, 26, 32, 44, 59, 63, 86 
,, and Tobacco, 63 
Gas-tar, 94 
,, water, 45 
Gooseberry Caterpillar, 64 
,, Sawfly, 64 
Guano, 30, 35 
Handpicking, 49, 50 
“ Haulm Fly,” 17 
,, ,, winter brood of, 18 
Healthy growth important, 32—35 
Hellebore, 64, 65 
Hop Aphis, 67 
,, ,, on Plums and Sloes, 70 
Hop blight, loss by in 1882, iv 
Hop Cone Maggot, 71 
Hop Flea Beetle, 71 
Hylemia coarctata, 20 
Hylesinus Fraxini, 4 
Hylurgus Piniperda, 84 
Isle of Man, Observations from and 
Tables, 54—63 
Julus Worms, 50 
Kainite, 34, 43, 44 
Lady Bird, 68 
Leek Fly, 77 
Lime, 26, 27, 32 
,, and Salt, 79 
,, and Soot, 64, 65, 79 
Liquid manure, 59 
Lopliyrus pini, 88 
Losses by insect ravage, iv 
Magpie Moth, 64 
