. The book of the garden. Gardening. 444 HARDY FRUIT GARDEN. dosfuotiTe. The scales are hard, dry, and, shining, and often found in large numbers crowd- ed together, even to the extent of frequently lying one above another. When they find their way to the skin of the fruit, which they some- times do, more especially on wall trees, they destroy its beauty, and give it a disgusting ap- pearance. An excellent fig. is given of it in " The Gardeners' Chronicle," 1843, p. 735, and also a lucid description by Ruricola, who says, " The scales are hard, dark, and shining, exceed- ingly l
. The book of the garden. Gardening. 444 HARDY FRUIT GARDEN. dosfuotiTe. The scales are hard, dry, and, shining, and often found in large numbers crowd- ed together, even to the extent of frequently lying one above another. When they find their way to the skin of the fruit, which they some- times do, more especially on wall trees, they destroy its beauty, and give it a disgusting ap- pearance. An excellent fig. is given of it in " The Gardeners' Chronicle," 1843, p. 735, and also a lucid description by Ruricola, who says, " The scales are hard, dark, and shining, exceed- ingly like a, minute mussel-shell, but rather more elongated. They are slightly curved, transversely wrinkled, roundish at the tail, and attenuated at the head, which is semi-cylindri- cal, less opaque, and of a I'usty colour. They adhere firmly to the bark, having the margins broad beneath and woolly; and when dislodged, the space they had covered appears white. Within the shell is found a fleshy green female, occupying part of the cavity towards the taper- ing extremity, the hinder space being entirely filled with white oval eggs,amounting sometimes to fifty or more. They are rather larger than in most species, I think, and produce little white fat Cocci, with two antennae and six legs. They are lively, and run about for several days; but having fixed themselves, then grow, and by de- grees become very different creatures from what they were immediately after their ; Syrin- ging the trees during winter with boiling water, boiling chamber-ley, lime-water laid on with a brush, and dusting the branches with powdered lime while they are wet, scraping the bark with a wooden knife, so as to destroy the females without bruising the tree, and even painting the branches with train and linseed oil, have all been tried with little apparent effect. We have found spirits of tar laid on during winter most effec- tive ; and could it be applied with safety during May, when the young ones
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