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The writer regrets the necessity of introducing any new pests to his readers, but if we are still spared the visitation of some, time in his course may bring them to us.

The olive is subject to a diversity of maladies, of which some are derived from the action of insects and parasitic plants, others, from meteorological influences, and still others, from improper methods of cultivation, such as excessive or defective nutrition.

The insects which are most harmful to the olive are the following: