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possible, however, that the cold in connection with some other climatic 

 conditions, like a coating of ice or sleet, might kill them. There are, 

 doubtless, enough alive to damage a large amount of fruit next year, and 

 you should not relax your efforts in trapping them. I know of no better 

 way than has been so often published — the use of cloth bands in the 

 orchard, and hunting them in the crevices of barrels and bins in the 

 cellar. 



Dr. Mvgatt — I have used flannel bands, wound about my trees and 

 tacked lightly, and have caught as many as twenty larvae in a day in a 

 single band. It is very little work to take these bands off, scald them, 

 and replace them. 



Mr. Wier said he had studied this insect for six or eight years, and 

 had discovered some curious things about it which are not in print, one 

 of which is that the larva is attacked by a white, papery fungus, which 

 begins in the puncture of the fruit, where the egg was deposited, and 

 extends down the burrow, and finally envelops the worm, and destroys 

 it. The larvae brought into the house or cellar do not all hide and trans- 

 form near the fruit, as I have found them in clothing and crevices in 

 upper rooms. As the worms emerge from the fruit, they are inclined to 

 crawl upward to seek quarters for transforming. 



On motion of Mr. McWhorter, the Society then adjourned, to 

 meet to-morrow morning, at nine o'clock. 



WEDNESDAY MORNING. 



The Society convened at nine o'clock, with President Ellsworth 

 in the chair, and was opened with prayer by Rev. S. Hews. 

 The Society first listened to 



THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL ADDRESS. 



I am pleased to meet at this the ninth annual meeting of the Horti- 

 cultural Society of Northern Illinois, so many friends of horticulture, and 

 its kindred interests, some of whom have been members from the first. 

 Others, co-laborers, have come into the field at the various hours of the 

 day. The eleventh hour of the day in horticulture ha.s not yet come ; 

 before that hour many other laborers will enter the field, each, alike with 

 the first, entitled to his wages, ''a penny a day." 



Do we realize the importance of well-directed, efficient labor, for the 

 higher advancement of the great and important interests within the scope 

 of this Society? Retrospect shows some advancement; but is that 



