Olive Culture in the Alpes Maritimes (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...on the tree. This would show the necessity of fighting against the most important of these generations, the best proven in my opinion, the one found on the wood cut off in pruning which we have at hand, and which offers us a way, if not of destroying the enemy completely, at least of reducing its numbers materially. Mr. Companio, of Perpignan, is the only one to my knowledge who has spoken of a parasite of Phlceotribus oleae, which he describes under the name of Locusta arachno'ida (arachnoid grasshopper), and of which he gives a rather singular illustration; it is possible that in the "Pyrenees Orientales" the Phlceotribus has a parasite, or rather an enemy; but though I have made numerous researches I have failed to find anything similar in these regions. From what I have said it is certain that when the pruning season comes, viz, the end of the winter or in the spring, one must separate in two lots the cut wood of medium size and the small branches, which must contain more or less Phlceotrips, Cochineals, Psylles, of which I will speak later; these ought to be burnt at once, and the larger branches and limbs, which must be thoroughly investigated so as to find out whether the Ne'iron has attacked them. Twenty days after, when one can have sure proof that the larva is living and working, the best thing is to burn all this wood that has served as a trap, or if one wishes to keep the wood, one ought to singe it well and take off the bark, or to leave it for several days under water, then dry it and place same in a dry place, hermetically closed, and as far as possible from any olive plantation. If the limbs cut off be burned, it is advisable to do so at night, as in so doing one has a chance of destroying many moths and Tineidae...