. 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. moth, the horn-fly and the elm leaf-beetle; such standard pests as the Hessian fly, the cabbage butterfly, the cur- rant-worm, the codling-moth (Pig. 1137) came in many years ago. Of the 73 Insects which rank as flrst-class pests, each of them almost annually causing a loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars,
. 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. moth, the horn-fly and the elm leaf-beetle; such standard pests as the Hessian fly, the cabbage butterfly, the cur- rant-worm, the codling-moth (Pig. 1137) came in many years ago. Of the 73 Insects which rank as flrst-class pests, each of them almost annually causing a loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars, over one half have been introduced from foreign countries, mostly from Europe. It is a significant fact that usually these im- ported Insects become much more serious pests here than in their native home; this is doubtless ;rffelv due to tlie . , .-li- hOUSrl,.,!,!. Ml ,1,,. ,,,., ,,l,,Hi^,., :,,,-! l,r:MMi,.,-,lh. :,l[.,\ ..nf most dangerous scale Insects, are of fun-i^-ii origin. M:\n will continue to encroach on and disturb nature's prim- itive domain, and commercial operations will never cease, nor is there much Impe of ever effictuiilly (lUiirantiuing our shores a^-.'iiri-l fln-i'IiiMi I'...-: In mc, srcnis to be no pran i. ,',â . .,. i ^ , â .. i. ..r tin' In- sect enemii-s "i ''ii ^ . i;l' :,i ; I'l I n . I-â . I I ii ⢠best fitted mnnm, .,ini ., -i m - ,^c il \mi1i a rieds :be the rvive and reap the reward of profit- able crops. No part of a plant, from its roots to the fruit it produces, escapes the tiny jaws or the sucking beaks of Insects. Hoof-feeding Insects.âMany of the small fniits and vegetables are often seriously injured by Insects feed- ing on the roots. The grape-vine fidia (the grub of a small beetle) and the grape phylloxera plant-louse live on grape roots. Strawberries often succumb to the at- tacks of the grubs of several small beetles known as strawberry-r
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