Discouragements 



out ; but their first call is never their last. 

 If the borers have intelligence of the exist- 

 ence of Pines on " Doctor's Hill," they 

 will come again as sure as the tax-col- 

 lector, and new woes are in store for us 

 from their visitations. 



Moved by that desire to find consola- Norway 

 tion in our neighbor's ills, to which La fermg from 

 Rochefoucauld cynically alludes, we go 

 about spying at the tops of other people's 

 evergreens, and find that this is the borer's 

 year. Driving, a few days since, in a 

 neighboring village, I saw, with concern, 

 a long row of tall Norway Spruces at least 

 forty feet high, that inclose a public gar- 

 den, all suffering from the attacks of our 

 fell marauder. Luckily, their tops will 

 hardly be missed, while ours Wae 's 

 me ! as Carlyle would moan. 



Now the question arises, Is there any 

 prevention as well as cure for this inflic- 

 tion ? Is there any application obnoxious 

 to the borer's mamma that can be put 

 where she would lay her eggs, and so 

 induce her to move on ? Has she any 

 avowed distaste for whale-oil soap, or coal- 

 tar, or kerosene emulsion, or any other un- 



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