. The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States and Canada for ornament, for fancy, for fruit and for vegetables; with keys to the natural families and genera, descriptions of the horticultural capabilities of the states and provinces and dependent islands, and sketches of eminent horticulturists . 1314. Hemipterous insect. Known toentomologists as a true bug. also many of the smaller vine and bush-frui
. The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States and Canada for ornament, for fancy, for fruit and for vegetables; with keys to the natural families and genera, descriptions of the horticultural capabilities of the states and provinces and dependent islands, and sketches of eminent horticulturists . 1314. Hemipterous insect. Known toentomologists as a true bug. also many of the smaller vine and bush-fruits andgarden crops. Borers are often the most destructiveof insect pests. The two apple-tree borers, the round-headed (Fig. 1316) and the fiat-headed species, and thepeach-tree borer (Fig. ) doubtless cause the deathof as many apple and peach trees in America as allother enemies combined. The fruit-bark beetles, orshot-hole borers, usually attack only unthrifty orsickly fruit trees, and a tree once infested by them isusually doomed. Two borers, one the grub of a beetle. 1315. Tomato worm attacked by parasitic insects. and the other the caterpillar of a moth, sometimes tun-nel down the stems of currants and gooseberries. Rasp-berries and blackberries (Fig. 1317) also suffer fromtwo or thee kinds of borers, one working in the root,one in the stem, and a maggot bores down and kills thenew shoots. A caterpillar closely aUied to the peach-tree borer Uves in squash vines, often ruining the potato-stalk weevil sometimes does much damagein potato fields. Sometimes one can prevent borersfrom getting into a fruit tree with a paper bandageclosely ^Tapped around the part liable to be attacked,or by the application of some wash. Most of thewashes recommended will prove ineffectual or dangerousto use. Gas-tar has given good results, but some re-port injury to peach trees fromits use; hence one should firstexperiment with it on a few way has been found to keepborers out
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