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one severely felt, and likely again to return to torment the
growers of the peach.  We refer to the Peach Aphis.  We
learned to our surprise x x that in some of the Kent orchards
this minute but destructive pest was equally as numerous as
it was lower down the peninsula.  A notice of its ravages in
Mr. Kerr's orchards and nurseries in Caroline Co. was given
in our pages some months ago.  In the orchard of Col. Wilkins
--especially in the young orchards-- this pest abounded in almost
innumerable quantities.  An orchard of 15,000 trees of
the early Beatrice was conspicuous for the number of the 
Depredators.

"Numerous supposed remedies were early applied to destoying
this enemy, but some time was lost in determining an effective
application. ** it was only after considerable 
experiment that it was found that pure carbolic acid largely
diluted in water was an instantaneous and sure cure." One
part C.P.  to forty gallons water. * *  It was syprined on.
"The solution was thus easily directed upon such parts of
each tree as were most infected--the insects clustering
generally on the extremities of the young branches. * * So
acute an observer as Col. Wilkins does not hesitate to express
his belief that the operations of the aphis this year [1874]
        