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‘The bloom of the apple, pear, and cherry, is very 
often injured, or deftroyed, by a fmall caterpillar at 
the heart; the egg of which was, I fuppofe, depo- 
fited in the bud, in the preceding year. 
4. Have you difcovered any method of preventing 
their ravages, or deftroying them? 
~The hiftory of this infe& would afcertain the beft 
time for fmothering the trees, which is a good prac- 
tice; the period of laying the egg is the time, were 
it known. 
ie What, in in your oye Bh is the caufe of the blight, 
and the means of guarding againfe Iie ore’ 
‘Blight i is to'me an unintelligible ee Frofts in 
the fpring, at tie period when the bloflom is quitting 
the tender forming Fruit, often’ deftroy whole crops. 
The firft tender opening leaf-buds are often deftroyed 
in the fame manner; a fecond effort being neceffary, 
the fhoots and leaves are very backward, and the 
tree by the fevere check, much injured. Late frofts 
do more injury to trees than I believe any thing be- 
fides. Sbrivelled bloffoms and leaves form a recep- 
tacle for infects, and infe&s are often charged un- 
jultly with the crime. Frofts are, however, deftruétiye 
of the infe&t tribes, but the larva of “infe@s lodged 
fecurely by the parent, are not eafily injured until 
they come into motion, when the {mall birds take 
great havock amongft them. 
Early blights mean, I think, the depredation o¢ 
worms, or rather caterpillars, in the buds,’ ‘or’ the 
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