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their menu for that or some sncceedino; day. The two reiriilar 

 sprayings necessary for tlie codling-moth, one just after the blossoms 

 fall and the other a week or ten days later, with Paris green, or 

 some similar poison, and tlie Bordeaux mixture, if they are thor- 

 oughly done, should kill enough of the palmer-worms to prevent 

 their doino; noticeable damao^e for the season. 



Some reported to us in June last that they failed to check the 

 ravages of the insect with a poison spray, but many others reported 

 very effectual work with such a spray. The failures must have 

 resulted from lack of thoroughness, impure chemicals, or some simi- 

 lar cause. We believe that one or two thorough applications of a 

 poison sj^ray about June 1st will surely control this pest for the 

 season. 



We hope that the palmei'-worms will continue to have such 

 remarkable *' ups " and " downs " in their life as they have had dur- 

 ing the past hundred years so that they will not again trouble our 

 fruit-growers for another half century ; but as one never can fore- 

 tell Nature's secrets, horticulturists may soon have occasion to wish 

 that they had, like Hiawatha : ^ 



" Learned their names and all their secrets, 

 . How they built their nests in summer, 



Where they hid themselves in winter, 



Talked with them when'er he met them." 



MAPwK YEPvNOX SLINGEP.LAKD. 



