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CHERRY. LEAVES. 



directly downward and not sway off to one side. This curious 

 specimen may be seen in the Entomological department of the 

 Museum of the State Agricultural Society. 



AFFECTING THE FRUIT. 



The Plum weevil or Curculio, No. 70, a small white worm 

 occasionally found in the interior of cherries, is the only insect 

 known to us as infesting this fruit. 



9. THE GRAPE.— Fi7w vinifera, et al. 



AFFECTING THE ROOT. 



95. Grape vine borer, Trochilium Polistiformis, Harris. (Lepidoptera 

 Trochiliidae.) 



A worm resembling the Peach tree borer. No. 59, in its size 

 and habits, producing a moth resembling a wasp, of a dark brown 

 color marked with orange or tawny yellow, and with a bright 

 yellow band on the base of the second ring of its abdomen, its 

 fore wings dusky, hiud ones glassy hyaline with the margins and 

 veins black. Width 1.00 to 1.50. Found by Dr. Kron, in North 

 Carolina, where it is exceedingly destructive to both wild and 

 cultivated grapes. See Patent Office Report, 1854, p. SO. 



AFFECTING THE STALK. 



96. Vine scale insect, Lecanium Iritis, Linn. (Ilomoptera. Coccidae.) 



Appearing on the bark in June, a brown heniis])lierical scale 

 from under one end of wliich a wliite cotton-like substance ])ro- 

 trudes, more and more, till about the first of July, it becomes 

 four times as large as the scale, and from among it minute oval 

 yellowish-white lice, tlie hundredth of an inch in length, creep 

 out and distribute themselves over the bark, to which they 

 fix themselves and become stationary, sucking its juices. This 

 appears from the short descriptions given by authors, and from 



