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the cotton cloth in the crotch of the tree, 

 and examined it in three weeks, and found 

 another encampment of them in the same 

 state, and concluded that they were quite 

 in my power, with very little labor. The 

 cloth should be placed in the tree about the 

 25th of June, and examined every three 

 weeks, as it requires about this time to go 

 through their chrysalis state ; in one or two 

 seasons they must be destroyed. They 

 find their silken webs very readily attach 

 to the little fibres of cotton, and by laying 

 the cotton cloth to the tree the wind will 

 not disturb them. 



There is still another insect which does 

 some damage to the foliage and fruit of 

 trees. The perfect insect is a long, slen- 

 der, dark fly, with long feelers, and two 



steerers behind ; they are on the trees as 

 early as the 15th of March, mating ; they 

 lay their eggs in the young bud, as soon, 

 as it opens ; the egg hatches, and the larva? 

 commences eating the young leaves and 

 curling them up, in which he makes his 

 home. They are destroyed by applying 

 the whitewash to the limb of the tree ; and 

 by covering the limb in this way, a very 

 destructive little insect, the eggs of which 

 are contained in little muscle shells on the 

 apple and pear trees, will be destroyed. I 

 will communicate the effect of syringing 

 the tree with the wash before the buds 

 break in July, when the whole effect of the 

 experiment will be known. 



Yours respectfully, 



M. H. Simpson. 



REVIEWS. 



Proceedings of the second Congress of Fruit 

 Grower?, in the city of Rew-lork, 1849. 



This long-delayed report of the Pomolo- 

 gical Congress of last October, is at length 

 issued, and lies before us, in the form of a 

 thick pamphlet — almost a book — of 109 

 pages. It is well printed, and notwith- 

 standing the long time occupied in present- 

 ing it, is still interesting to those occupied 

 with the culture or study of fruits.* 



Before saying any thing as to the report 

 itself, we must be allowed to say a word as 

 to the publication of the future Reports of 

 this Congress. The delay in printing this 

 and the previous report, not to mince mat- 

 ters, arises simply from the fact that the 

 Congress trusted to the American Institute 

 to publish it, and of course lost, in some 

 measure, the control of its early issue 

 thereby. Now if these Reports are worth 

 printing at all, they should be printed 

 within thirty days of the close of the ses- 

 sion, and if there are not ways and means 



* Those who have not already received iheir copies by mail, 

 can obtain them at the office of the Horticulturist, in Albany, 

 Boston, New York, and, we believe, Cincinnati. 



enough, (and we know they are abundant,) 

 for the next Congress to do this, by simply 

 putting their hands in their pockets, why 

 let us lay a tax upon the orchards. The 

 apples and pears would " come down " if 

 necessary to have the thing done speedily 

 and without shuffling. 



As most of our fruit-growing readers will 

 have gone through this pamphlet before 

 they receive this number, it is needless for 

 us to notice its contents in detail. Every 

 one interested in Pomology will admit that 

 it is replete with interesting facts, opinions 

 and discussions, and that it contains abun- 

 dant proofs that the subject of fruit culture 

 is receiving no small amount of attention 

 in the United States at the present time. 



There are two or three matters of gene- 

 ral interest to our readers, which we will 

 glance at in passing. 



The Zinfindal Grape, a well known for- 

 eign variety, w r as stated by Mr. Parsons, 

 of Long Island, and Dr. Munson and Mr. 

 Gabriel, of New Haven, to be better 

 adapted to culture in the open air, in Con- 



