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their way into the foft part of the bud, which they 
make their winter refidence; here the fmall birds 
often feck their food in winter, and which they 
eafily find by a {mall hole that is in the bud. 
When this worm is taken from thence in the win- 
ter, or early in the fpring, the bud may recover the 
injury done, by the bloffoming feafon; but if it were 
to remain there until it voluntarily left the fame, the 
injury would be fuch, that it probably would produce 
but little bloffom, and lefs fruit. 
Another thing claimed my attention as to the 
aforefaid trees, which was this, Why the birds had 
thus worked fo much on the firft of thefe, and not 
in the leaft broken the bud of the others? Here J 
fuppofed, that in the one there was plenty of food, 
and in the other there was none; but what fhould be 
the caufe of this difference was yet to be confidered. 
The caufe foon occurred to me to be this, the trees 
thus infeéted with the infeés ftand in an open and 
free air, whereas the otber ftands near a malt-houfe 
and brew-houfe, by the fmoke of both which they 
are often covered, and it is not likely for the fly to 
Jay its eggs in fuch a fituation, this may be fome 
proof of the benefit of fmoke. Some one may be 
ready to afk, if thefe birds are fo ufeful in cleanfing 
the trees from worms, how is it that we have fo fine 
a bloffom after a hard winter, when moft of thefe 
birds are deftroyed, as in the laft? To fuch a quef- 
tion I would give the following anfwer, If the froft 
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