. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1156. Tomato other cruciferous plants are often devoured by hordes of hungry maggots. These underground root-feeding Insects are difficult pests to coutrol, like any other unseen foe. Sometimes they can be successfully reached by injecting a little carbon bisulfide into the soil around the base of the INSECTS p
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1156. Tomato other cruciferous plants are often devoured by hordes of hungry maggots. These underground root-feeding Insects are difficult pests to coutrol, like any other unseen foe. Sometimes they can be successfully reached by injecting a little carbon bisulfide into the soil around the base of the INSECTS plant. The cabbage maggots can be largely prevented by the use of tarred paper pads placed arouud the plants, or by pouring a carbolic acid emulsion at the base of tho infested plants. The strawberry root-feeders are best controlled by frequent cultivation and a short rotation of crops. are the larvae of several different kinds (.I III II li burrow into and feed upon the inner I i s. I III I 111 the most destructive of Insect pests. lin MMi :i|.['e borers, the round-headed (Fig. ;., I ihil-llfaded species, and tllP tree borer (Fig. lljlij t many apple and peach t mies combined. The rei pear-borer seriously th try in infested localitie: ISC tlie death of â il a as all othe. 1157. Burrows of an apple-tree borer. The holes at a show 1158. A beetle borer and its work. The larva bores in the youtig wood of raspberry and blackberry caues. causing the swellings seen in the pictiure. tins, or "slini hole "borers, usually attack only unthrifty 111- sickly Iriiit trees, and a tree once infested by them is usually cinoiiied. Two borers, one the grub of a beetle and the othcf the caterpillar of a moth, sometimes tun- nel down the stems of currants and gooseberries. Rasp- berries and blackberries (Fig. 1158) also suffer from two or three kinds of borers, one working in the root, one in the stem, and a maggot bores down and kills the
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