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do or not. It was announced in the journal of the N. Y. State Agricultural Society, that a 

 committee of six persons were appointed to test the remedy, and we saw it stated after- 

 wards that Mr. Fahkestock objected to such committee, and had selected three of them 

 only. We gave this merely as an item of intelligence. We said that it might require sev- 

 eral years to make a reliable statement ; but if tlie committee can be satisfied to report at 

 the close of this curculio season, we shall be happy to announce the fact. The circum- 

 stances related by Mr. Fahnestock are so far quite satisfactory. 



Insects. — I send you, accompanying this, specimens of a worm ■wliicli threatens to be to the 

 Apple, Pear, and Cherry, what the curcuh'o is to the Plum and Apricot, only that besides destroy- 

 ing the fruit, they seriously retard the growth of the tree, -vvhicli renders them doubly destructive.* 

 They usually commence operations in the bud, and are then so minute as scarcely to be detected 

 by the naked eye: a brown worm a line or so in length. "When one bud is destroyed, they 

 migrate to another ; and as the tree progresses in growth, eat in at the base of the young shoots, 

 and also at the base of the truit stalks, thus destroying the fruit, and injuring the growth of the 

 tree. They belong to the leaf-roller genus, forming for themselves a secure retreat by rolling 

 together the edges of a small leaf, or else hiding among the bracts at the base of the fruit clusters, 

 and are nocturnal in their habits. I have never been able to trace the progress of their metamor- 

 phosis, and know nothing of them except in the larvte state. 



Last season they were very destructive to the fruit crop in this section, particularly Apples 

 and the finer sorts of Cherries. The numerous bracts at the base of tlie fruit clusters of the latter 

 afford them a peculiarly safe and convenient retreat. They seem to be even more abundant this 

 season than they were last. 



I am inclined to think that the depredations spoken of by your correspondent, A. G. IIanford, 

 of Waukesha, Wis., in the August number of the Horticulturist, for last year, were committed by 

 this worm instead of the weevil, to which he attributes it. A little careful observation would 

 soon settle the question. 



It is important that every fruit culturist should be on the alert to discover, and devise means 

 to destroy the constantly increasing list of enemies to the fruit crop ; for, with the utmost care, 

 success may be regarded as uncertain, except in some favored localities. 



I am happy to acknowledge the receipt of those English Russets which you had the kindness to 

 send me. I think they closely resemble the seedling russet which I sent you. The latter was 

 very likely produced from seeds of the former, but are a little less acid, n ore flattened, not as 

 large or productive, and not as good keepers as the seedling. Tliis, at least, is my experience. I 

 may be deceived ; and it may be the identical English Russet. II. B. Warren. — Alahuma, N. Y. 



Enclosed I send a small section of an Apple limb, enclosing two " limb borers." I have not 

 seen any description of them in eastern fruit books. Perhaps they may ba of interest to you. 

 The pair are in the situation in which they were on the tree, and are supposed to be male and 

 female. The branch is cut at the lower end of their hole; you will see that they entered at the 

 base of a fruit spur. They sometimes enter branches one half or three-fourths of an inch in diam- 

 eter, which generally withers or is broken off by the wind at the point of their operations. I 

 have never before discovered but one in a burrow. J. C. Br.wton. — Aztalan, Wisconsin. 



The borers referred to had cut through the papers enclosing them and disappeared, leav- 

 ing only the perforated brancli and a quantity of saw-dust. The branch was bored com- 

 pletely hollow, throughout. 



* AVe liavc observed llicso insects— Icnf rollers— for mnny years, and umally send a person round to pick them off 

 ml destroy them. They do not appear to increase with u.s, nor to work any serious mischief. — Ed. 



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