. The insect and other allied pests of orchard, bush and hothouse fruits and their prevention and treatment . Insect pests; Fruit. 496 Appendix. ill Whiteheavts and BiKaroons. They do not occur in tlie " Guigne a collier," grown in Normandy, nor in the wild cherry. Should tliis insect, which may be British, but which in any case is very rare, "ic' irh.'ch is iuqHirtrd in fnreiijn fruit, become noticeable in any lilantation or uarden, it would be wise to forego any crop by having all the fruit destroyed to prevent damage another year and the possible spread to other plantations n
. The insect and other allied pests of orchard, bush and hothouse fruits and their prevention and treatment . Insect pests; Fruit. 496 Appendix. ill Whiteheavts and BiKaroons. They do not occur in tlie " Guigne a collier," grown in Normandy, nor in the wild cherry. Should tliis insect, which may be British, but which in any case is very rare, "ic' irh.'ch is iuqHirtrd in fnreiijn fruit, become noticeable in any lilantation or uarden, it would be wise to forego any crop by having all the fruit destroyed to prevent damage another year and the possible spread to other plantations near, and so, perhaps, <:iver the whole southern part I if the country. THE JAPANESE OR WEST INDIAN FRUIT SCALE. (Diasjiis peiittifioiin. = Diaspis aini/giiaJi. Tryon.) Although, as far as we know, this insect is not found in Britain to-dav, we nnist not overlook the fact that it has been imported and has lived here. Xewstead (1) quotes its ap- pearance at Kew in March 1898 on Pniniis jjsenrlo-cerasHs, on plants imported from Japan which had been out of doors since Januarv in the same year. Agaiu (2), in 18y9. he says : " In January of the present year a consignment of several hundred Japanese cherries (Pi'iiniis iisi'iido-cerasiis) was im- ported into this countrv from Japan which ultimately fell into my hands, and were disseminated ovei' the British Isles w-ithout any knowledge that they were badly infested with the scale. In the following April two of the plants from the consignment were sub- mitted to the writer for the purpose of identifying the insects upon them, which proved to be the destructive scale insect Dinspis ainiigihili of Tryon. On inquiry it w-as found that the greater number of the plants of this particular batch (100) had been planted nut of doors .since the time (if arrival, and the examination proved the insects were not in any way att'ected by their change of climate, but .appeared in a perfectly healthy ; Later, June 3rd
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