Bulletin 176. December, 1 899. 



Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station. 



ITHACA, N. Y. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL DIVISION. 



THE 



PEACH-TREE BORER. 



"June 15, 1749. Peach trees have often been planted here (Albany, N. Y.), and never would 

 succeed well. This was attributed to a worm which lives in the grouud, and eats through the 

 root, so that the tree dies." — Peter Kalm, in his Travels into North America^ Translation by 

 Forster. vol. II., p. 2Uh. 



An abridged edition of this bulletin is puhlisliedfor general distribution. 



By M. V. SLINGERLAND. 



PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY, 



ITHACA, N. Y. 



1899. 



