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you will review in your mind what has been said, von 

 will see that when these cups ar the blossom end have 

 been filled with this poisonous fluid the water will 

 evaporate and leave the particles of poison therein to 

 be eaten by the young' caterpillar at his first meal, and. 

 consequently, at his last meal. This is the secret of 

 combatting the codling 1 moth successfully. If you rid 

 your orchard of the first brood it will be evident that 

 there will be no second brood. Having 1 neglected this, 

 however, the second brood can onlv be destroyed bv 



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shaking the tree and gathering and destroying the wormy 

 apples. 



The Honey-Bee.- -The above are some of the more in- 

 jurious insects met. by the horticulturist. Xo\v let us 

 note his friends of this class. Xot the least among these 

 is the honey-bee, which visits his orchard-, his vine- 

 yards, his strawberries, blackberrie-. and raspberries, 

 and brings about greater results than is generally cred- 

 ited. It was formerly supposed that plants fertilized 

 themselves, but it has been more recently shown that 

 many plants are so constructed as to prevent self-fertili- 

 zation ; or, in other words, plant life, like animal life, 

 will " run out, 1 ' as we term it, by in-and-in breeding. 

 And nature has so constructed the plant itself that it 

 is impossible in some cases for the pollen of its own 

 anthers to fall upon the stigma of its own ovary. In 

 other cases the stigma is sterile to the pollen from its 

 own anthers but t'< rtile to pollen brought from other 

 flowers of the same species. It is the intention of nature 

 that the insect shall bring from another flower of the 

 same kind, pollen which shall fall upon the stigma and 



