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cerning man, he had not any idea of this; and when 
I convinced him of it, he acknowledged srs 
much furprifed.) 
Upon examining this orchard through, I found 
the injury to have extended to almoft every tree, in 
proportion to its bloffom; this inclined me to vifit 
other orchards, which I foon after did, both in 
Dorfetfhire and Devonfhire; in moft of then the 
injury done by the infeéts I found to be full as 
great. The moft common time for difcovering this 
infect, and the injury done by the fame, is when 
the other bloffoms fall off; for that where the infe& 
is doth never open, but by the time the other falls 
off this is withered, and then has much the appear 
ance of a brown berry; within this. is the infeé, 
which, at firft fight, has much the appearance of a 
white worm, but by mintte infpeétion the legs and 
wings at this time may be feen. It is, when thus 
difcovered, in a fufpendedftate; in about a fort- 
night after, it comes to perfection, and is then a 
black fly, with boufed wings; it flies but little, 
‘though it walks faft; at the leaft touch it fhrinks 
together, and then it has more the appearance 
of a fpider than a fly. This infeé is hatched among 
bloffom-buds, and as foon as the leaves of the blof= 
foms on the fides begin to loofen it forces its way in, 
and then, by the web it makes, or by the injury it 
does by feeding, or by both together, it effectually 
prevents the bloflom from opening; that which 
grows 
