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Show ORCHARD PEACH LOUSE IS INJURIOUS All Trees Should Be Carefully Fumigated Fumi-gated by Nurserymen aa Mere Matter of Precaution. (By E. F. SMITH.) Thla Insect derives Its name from lta Intense black color and smooth, Bhlnlng apeparanco. A groat deal of the Injury dono by this Insect Is not recognized by the grower, who may charge It to yellows, to applications mado during tho winter for other purposes, or to climatic caus.es. Where the Insects aro numerous on tlie roots the tree simply looks sick. The foliage Is thin, Imperfectly developed and light In color. The lice are especially es-pecially destructive to nursery trees and to orchards Just planted or In tho second year. Nursery trees, especially on light land, are often Infested. It such trees aro sot out without treatment, the Insects In-sects may multiply without causing much or any perceptible Injury the first Beason, confining themselves to the trunk and larger roots close to It. At tho beginning of tho second season the Insects spread outward to the smaller rootlets, Increase In number so as to form a drain on the vitality of tho tree and then the check to growth becomes apparent If tho tree sustains Itself during the second summer sum-mer it will probably contlnuo to live and may outgrow Injury, especially It well fed. But a tree so checked and weakened In early life rarely does what It should, and Is apt to be at- I i-'fj. - &$ Black Peach Louse as It Appears on Roots of Young Peach Trees. tacked by dlseubo and insects, llko the bark beetles, which need some debilitated debili-tated trees for their best development. AH peach trees should be carefully fumigated by tho nurseryman as a matter of precaution and, If properly done, this is entirely safe Whero the trees havo not been so treated they should bo very carefully Inspected before Betting, and if any signs of plant llco aro noted, tho roots should bo washed so as to free them of most of the dirt and then dipped In a strong tobacco dococtlon. Tho dipping should be thorough and Bhould bo dono Just beforo Betting. Instead of dipping in a dococtlon, tho washed roots may bo thoroughly dusted with finely ground tobacco when setting nnd a handful of ground tobacco should bo thrown around tho trunk before filling tho hole and firming. firm-ing. It a young orchard Is found to bo Infested after It has been set, remove (ho soil for a foot around the trunk soBto form a shallow basin, put In a pound of ground tobacco nnd cover, Seo that tho trees are kept well cultivated culti-vated and supplied with sufficient plant food to stimulate rapid and vigorous vig-orous growth. |