. 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. 1155. Hemipterous insect. Known to entomologists as a true hug. 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 almo
. 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. 1155. Hemipterous insect. Known to entomologists as a true hug. 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 largely due to the absence of their native enemies, to more favorable cli- matic conditions here,and to a less intense system of agri- culture in this country. Most of our worst Insect pests of the fruits, of the gardon crops, of the granary, of the household, of the greenhouse, and practically all of our most dangerous scale Insects, are of foreign origin. Man will continue to encroach on and disturb nature's prim- itive domain, and conunercial operations will never cease, nor is there much hope of ever effectually quarantining our shores against these little foes; hence there seems to be no practicable way to stop this increase of the In- sect enemies of the horticulturist. The one who is the best fitted by nature, and who best fits himself with a knowledge of these pests and how to fight them, will usually be the one to survive 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. JRoot-feeding Insects.âMany of the small fruits and vegetables are often seriously injured by Insects feed- in
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