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[CHARLES V. RILEY.]  Late Experience in dealing with Insects injurious to fruit.

Boston Transcript, January 26, 1892.

Editorial abstract of a lecture on the above subject given before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Boston, Mass., January 23, 1892.  The following topics were discussed: the Plum Curculio, its natural history and the arsenical poisons as a remedy against it;  recent results as to the value of various arsenical mixtures in spraying orchard trees;  Combined insecticides and fungicides;  the Hydrocyanic acid gas treatment;  Resin Washes;  the Fluted Scale and the importation of Vedalia cardinalis;  some new insect enemies to fruit;  the Apple Maggot;  danger of the possible introduction of some foreign fruit insects;  Conclusion.