Nor darnel these, nor wolf's-tail grass infests; From core and leaf we pick the insect pests, And pick we those that eat the joints and roots: So do we guard from harm the growing fruits.

There were two talks in this session, the first by a scientist from the ICAR who spoke on pests and diseases that attack mushrooms.

They told us of the problems they faced with pests (mainly rats) and diseases and also the difficulties they initially faced when selling mushrooms.

The seed should be of uniform size, good quality, free from pests and diseases and dry.

Pests and Diseases: Mushrooms are easily attacked by pests and diseases and therefore require utmost care and good management.

Pests and Diseases: Mushrooms are easily attacked by pests and diseases and therefore require utmost care and good management.

What an ideal warrior he became, baffling the siege of the pests of all the land till he triumphed over their united attack.

As for you, Selingman, I denounce you now as one of those who worked in this country for her ill, one of those pests of the world, working always in the background, dishonourably and selfishly, against the country whose hospitality you have abused.

Well, the fact is that while there are a few in the tropics, there are swarms of these pests all over Siberia.

And I wish one could kill all wicked pests as easily as you.

He looked upon the murderers of reputation and usefulness as some of the vilest pests of society, and plainly showed on every proper occasion that he thought it the part of a generous, benevolent and courageous man to exert himself in tracing and hunting down the slander, that the authors or abettors of it might be less capable of mischief for the future.

In the earlier periods of their history, both in England and Scotland, beggars were generally of such a description as to entitle them to the epithet of sturdy; accordingly they appear to have been regarded often as impostors and always as nuisances and pests.

The government of this province calls 'em 'pests.'

Others also of the band paid the penalty of the law; and the ruffian crew, who escaped to the United States, now constitute a kind of nucleus for the "Lone Star," "Filibustero," and other such pests of the community to gather round, being ready at any moment to start on a buccaneering expedition, if they can only find another Lopez ass enough to lead them.

You have no little pests of children" "I wish I had.

Well, you'd have thought that birds of paradise were national pests, like English sparrows.

The site was good from the point of health and comforthigh enough to escape the worst of the insect pests, close to fresh water, plenty of fuel, and within a few hundred yards of a lake that simply swarmed with fish and waterfowl.

They are exceeding pests in the villages near Calcutta, breaking into gardens, thrusting their noses into the stalls of fruiterers and pastry-cook's shops, and helping themselves without ceremony.

In the ranks were men who had been mob-orators, and who had once been those worst of pests, "barrack-room lawyers."

They are the pests of the waters, and it is necessary to be exceedingly cautious about either swimming or wading where they are found.

They did not in any way compare as pests with the mosquitoes on the lower Mississippi, the New Jersey coast, the Red River of the North, or the Kootenay.

When the plants have done flowering pinch off the tops, to ensure a better crop; and if the black fly has attacked them, take off the tops low enough down to remove the pests, and burn them at once.

An inverted flower-pot, containing a little dry moss or hay, placed on a stick, forms a good trap for these pests.

These pests may be destroyed by placing in their runs worms that have been kept for some time in mould to which carbonate of barytes has been added.

These troublesome pests which appear in the heat of summer, may be got rid of by constantly syringing the plants attacked, and by occasionally washing the walls, etc., with lime or sulphur.