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fecond never does, fo that as many infects as are 
within the bloffoms fo much fruit the lefs. 
I here acknowledge to have held a different 
opinion of the aforefaid birds, ‘until of late years, 
and have deftroyed.a great number of them; but 
by my refearches into thefe things, I am convinced 
that I was wrong. At the latter part of a mild 
winter, which: is now five or fix years fince, the in- 
jury that appeared to be done to the fruit-trees by 
the birds was fuch, that the ground under the trees 
in my garden was almoft covered with what ap- 
peared to be the broken buds; but on vifiting a 
gentleman’s garden at a little diftance from mine, 
the gentleman obferved to me, what a jine bud there 
qwas on his trees, and what profpect of a fine bloffom; 
I faid, in anfwer to him, that his trees had not re- 
ceived the like injury that the trees in my garden 
had, for I fuppofed that not one bud out of an 
hundred but had been hurt by the birds. But, to 
my great furprife, when the bloffom came forth, - 
thofe trees that appeared to be fo injured brought 
forth their bloffom as fine, and the fruit fet as 
ftrong, as on thefe trees that had not the leaft ap- 
pearance of hurt. Iwas for fome time at a lofs to” 
account for this, but on further examination, 1 found 
it was not the bud, but a worm that we often find 
therein, on which the birds feed, and what appears 
under the trees are but the peclings thereof; thefe 
worms are hatched ia the autumn, and then eat 
their 
