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len-double in numbers. After the first of September till apples were 

 gathered, we killed fally 10,000 worms, and of course had that many 

 or more wormeaten apples, and far more than any of ray neighbors, 

 near by or farther olf. 



The stumblino; block is, where did all the moths come from that 

 laid these e^gs ? The only theory I can form is that they came from 

 town. There are a number of apple trees, especially crabs, scattered 

 inside of a half or three fourths mile of my orchard. Many of them 

 were loaded with apples, and very nearly all were occupied by early 

 worms. I found atone time thirty worms under the scales of one tree. 

 These, when transformed to raoths, must have found their way to my 

 orchard, as there were scarcely any breeding places for them nearer. 

 But other orchards, nearly and quite as contiguous, had no such un- 

 common proportion of worm-eaten apples as mine, which seems still 

 unaccountable. 



The next and most important question is how to circumvent them 

 next year. I know sprinkling with Paris green or London purple is 

 recommended, and believed to be efficacious with some close observers. 

 But 1 fear they have had but few to contend with compared with 

 mine. However, with all my doubts and misgivings about it, I shall 

 have to go at it, if nothing more plausible is offered, but would like to 

 hear from all who have any experience or judgment on the subject. 



With most people when you are done talking about apples, you 

 are through with the catalogue of fruits. I hope to see a change in this 

 before many years. 



ESrly Richmond cherry trees bore all the fruit they could hold, 

 still there were very few in market, which I hope to improve on some 

 ■day. 



We had a few specimens of KeifFer pears on very young trees, and 

 all who tasted them when well ripened pronounced them good. No 

 blight so far. 



Strawberries and Raspberries were a good crop, and people always 

 demand more of them. No perceivable hurt by winter, but we could 

 see that strawberries were some better where covered. Snyder black- 

 berries can also be called a full croD, though some chance canes failed 

 to perfect it, probably from injury by winter; other kinds were killed 

 to the ground, unless we except the Taylor, of which there are very 

 few, with no perceivable preference over Snyder. 



