. 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. 1160. A crane fly. Mounted. juices within. Various small beetles, known as weevils, are responsible for most wormy nuts. Most of the fruit-eating Insects are out of the reach of the ordinary insecticides. The codling-moth is anoted exception, however, for the peculiar habit that the little caterpillar has of us
. 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. 1160. A crane fly. Mounted. juices within. Various small beetles, known as weevils, are responsible for most wormy nuts. Most of the fruit-eating Insects are out of the reach of the ordinary insecticides. The codling-moth is anoted exception, however, for the peculiar habit that the little caterpillar has of usually entering the blossom end of the fruit and feeding therein for a few days, gives the man with a poison spray a very vulnerable point of attack. It is only necessary to spray a bit of poison into the open calyx cup within a few days after the petals fall, and let nature soon close the calices and keep the poison therein until the newly-hatched caterpillar in- cludes it in its first menu. Often 70 per cent of the apples that would otherwise be ruined by the worms are saved by an application of Paris green at this critical time. The fact that the apple maggot never leaves the fruit until after it is picked or has fallen from the tree, gives one a chance materially to reduce its numbers by frequently gathering the windfalls and feeding them to stock or burying them deeply. As the plum curculio, in the adult stage, feeds on the leaves and fruits, a poison spray, applied soon after blossoming time, is apparently sometimes effective against it, particularly on cherries. Many extensive growers of the stone- fruits, however, are satisfied that this pest can be best circumvented by jar- ring the curculios onto sheets and kill- ing them; the quince curculio is also best fought by the jarring method. Hand-picking of the infested fruits must be practiced when grapes, cur- rants or gooseberries are attacked by fruit-eating Insects. P?«};i-iytce. —Scarcely a plant es- capes the little
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