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HALF HOURS WITH IHSECTS. [Packard. 
covers the end of the body, enveloping the pale orange oval 
eggs. 
It is especially injurious to the camellia, hiding about the 
buds, to the azalea, oranges, lemons and similar plants. 
Washing the plants with strong soap suds is a good remedy. 
Prof. S. G. Maynard, in charge of the fine plant house of the 
Massachusetts Agricultural College, recommends washing 
Fig. 77. 
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Woolly Scale Insect. 
the plants with ninety-five per cent, alcohol, applying it with 
a small bristle brush. Few plants are injured by alcohol; 
they are the Pandanus, the paper Aralia and certain ferns. 
A step higher in the family of scale insects (Coccidae) and 
we come to the Lecanium bark-louse, of which the adjoining 
figure by Mr. Riley gives an admirable idea (Fig. 77 a, 
Lecanium acericola; l>, L. Maclurce , which lives on the Osage 
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