eyes are sharp enough to find it, 

 for each one of these is the winter 

 home of a tiny insect at present 

 in its chrysalis stage. 



I have often been asked to ex- 

 plain another bulbous excrescence 

 which is found upon the twigs 

 of apple and wild -cherry. I have 

 introduced a picture of it here in 

 my border- group, just above the 

 bulby golden-rod. Every winter- 

 walker should know it, if only to 

 gather it for destruction, for every 

 one of them so plucked has saved 

 the tree or bush from an unsightly 

 caterpillar web the following year, 

 and, if in the orchard, from much 

 serious damage to the growing fruit 



and to the tree as well. This curi- 



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ous bunch is the work of the small 

 brown apple-tree moth, and consists of 

 hundreds of eggs laid in a broad, close gir- 

 dle completely around the twig, and afterwards covered 

 with a brown water-proof and weather-proof varnish. 





