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A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2)

Note 1159 — KERMES. COCHINEAL.

William Johnston translation

The insect is not natural to the tree, but adventitious. As all rosebushes have not tree-lice, nor all houses bugs; so all ilices, or oaks, have not kermes.

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