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every second day. The orchardist will hardly submit to this tedious 

 labor when he knows that even from the apples thus frequently gathered 

 more than half of the worms have escaped. 



4:fh. Entrafpinng the worms in hands and other contrivances. — This we 

 have sho^vu to be a very effective method, especially upon comparatively 

 young and smooth-limbed trees. Having" sufBcieutlj" described these 

 methods in the body of this article, we will here simj^ly give the rides 

 for applying and examining these traps. 



Let the horticulturist make a memorandum of the time of the falling 

 of the apple blossoms. Any time within a month after this date, the 

 bands or other trails may be applied. Between six and seven weeks 

 from the fall of the blossoms let the first examination be made ; and 

 after this make three other examinations with intervals of twelve days. 

 Lastly, make one more and final examination, which may be done any 

 time late in the fall, or in the winter, or in the early spring. 



Before closing we will briefly advert to another practical suggestion 

 upon this subject, made originally, we believe, by Dr. E. S. Hull, the 

 well known horticulturist, of Alton, in this State. This is the method 

 of throwing air-slacked lime upon the trees, when they are in blossom, 

 or immediately thereafter. The idea is, that as the blossom end of the 

 apple, at this incipient stage, j)oints upward or outward, a sufficient 

 ^quantity of the lime will lodge upon it to render it rei)ugnant to the 

 moth, and thus prevent her from depositing her eggs. We are not aware 

 that this plan has been put in practice to a sufficient extent to test its 

 efficacy. Two considerations occur to us which must prevent its being 

 completely successful : first, that experience shows that the moths con- 

 tinue to deposit then' eggs, to a greater or less extent, all through the 

 earlier part of the season, and the lime would be liable to be washed off 

 by rain ; and secondly, many apjiles would be so protected by the 

 foliage that the lime would fail to reach them. The idea, however, is 

 an interesting one, and the efficacy of the method, like that of all others, 

 would depend upon the thoroughness with which it was put in practice. 



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