The Detection and Control of Garden Pests by G. Fox Wilson (HQ540)

Published 1947: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original green cloth with gilt titles on the spine and original pictorial dust jacket. 194 very clean and bright slightly age-toned pages, mild speckled edges, previous owners signature on the first free page. Boards slightly rubbed with time and frayed along the edges. The dust jacket is slightly rubbed with time and chipped along the edges consistent with age but remains intact. (HQ540)

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A GOOD sound book on pests of the garden has long been overdue, and Mr. Fox Wilson‘s effort certainly fills the gap admirably. Very often insect damage to cultivated plants is uncommonly difficult to identify. Unless it can be recognized in its early stages and measures of repression put into force, it is usually "too late to mend". The book is an expanded and revised version of the author‘s serial articles entitled "Symptoms of Pest Attack on Plants" published in the Gardener‘s Chronicle during 1932–36. The basis of the book is, therefore, laid on diagnosing pest injuries, and each chapter deals with the insects or other pests of a separate part of plants. Thus Chapter 3 deals with roots, and here the reader will find an account of the injuries inflicted by all the root-enemies that are likely to be encountered. Other chapters deal with stems and shoots, flowers, seeds, and so on. There is no doubt that this method of treating the subject facilitates quick identification better than any method of grouping the different pests under their natural orders or their specific plants.

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