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them, an indigenous species, and its original fruit was evidently 

 the wild Haw, which in the West it yet seems to prefer to the 

 cultivated fruits. But in the East it has become very injurious 

 to the Quince and, as we might naturally expect, also attacks 

 the Pear, and especially the Lawrence and other late varieties. 

 In September, 1868, I received specimens from TV". W. Swett of 

 Hightstown, N. J., with the statement that they were found 

 on pears, and Dr. Trimble at a late meeting of the New York 

 Farmers' Club (Oct. 22, 'vO), gave the following account of its 

 injuries in New Jersey the present year: 



" Yesterday five or six hundred were taken from the bottoms 

 of two barrels of quinces, although those quinces had only 

 been gathered four days before. A friend of mine has a quince 

 orchard of 286 trees. These trees this season should average 

 seventy or eighty quinces to a tree, making more than twenty 

 thousand. Upon a most careful search I was unable to find 

 one specimen perfect, or clear of one or more blemishes caused 

 by the puncture of this insect. Frequently four, five, or six 

 grubs will be found in a single quince. Mr. Goldsmith, the 

 owner, keeps this orchard in first-rate order ; he has faithfully 

 kept out the borers, so fatal to the quince trees ; has fertilized 

 very freely, and the cultivation is perfect. He told me yestei-- 

 day, that his crop this year is thirty barrels, which will yield 

 him about $125. Had this insect let him alone, he should 

 have had at least 100 barrels, worth from $800 to 11,000. 

 Many of his later j^ears, including the Seckel and Lawrence, 

 have suffered greatly, though not to the same extent as his 

 quinces. A few days ago he emptied a barrel of cuUings, 

 chiefly Lawrence pears, and in and near the bottom of that 

 barrel were found at least 400 of these grubs. A month asfo 

 I visited the orchards attached to one of the best nurseries in 

 Pennsylvania, and I found the sad evidence of the presence of 

 this enemy. Even the Seckel pears, though very abundant, 

 were almost worthless ; later varieties still worse. Mr. Fuller 

 tells me that he has seen this season, in Western New York, 



