

PLANTING. 



The pine moth nestles in the leading bud of the pine, and destroys its 

 principal shoot. The attack of this insect often injures a whole plantation, 

 propagate fast, and prefer the terminal bud of the stem. If on 

 pearance of the insect, or before it had affected more than two 

 or three trees, means were immediately had recourse to for destroying 

 them, and guarding every season to prevent them from establishing t hem- 

 in numbers, the prevention of their ravages would be thus effected 

 at a mod<-r:ite roM of labour or expense. 



The srolylu* tli^frurfnr is a formidable insect. It penetrates through 

 ik into the alburnum, on which it feeds, destroying the organization 

 of the bark, and annihilating its functions. In time the bark separates in 

 in the wood, and the tree dies. The elm is most obnoxious 

 to thi> The pine is also subject to attacks of the same kind, and 



attended with the like fatal effi 



M betafUppOMd 1 -t of disease rather than the cause of it, or of living 



! ut when we never find the insect in life on a dead 

 one, and that oftentimes in the full vigour of health, we 

 ttctor, if not the only cause of tnlm 



or A WMting of the jluit. is one of the jiriniary ones, and is never an eflect. Very re- 

 cently a number of elm tre< . - uid si/e. in the nei^hlmnrhood of 



; id manner. The l-.irk 1-ecame detached from the stem, 

 .ild with small force he removed hy the fingers for a space 

 forefeet from the root upwards. 



ee rom te root upwars. 

 T"he bark v. 

 iM alburnum were 



in numerous instances, and their ravages on 



alburnum were -in-on^h its suhstance. There were a very 



rthe tfe* which esc ; ed destruction ; hut even these had perforations of the bark, 



