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a look at the stem will disclose the tiny round hole through 

 which the would-be destroyer has entered. 



Now, how to get at it is the question. If you have 

 been watching your trees as closely as you should have 

 done, it will not have had time to do more as yet than 

 burrow between the bark and the wood, and then its course 

 is easily traced under the bark by the eye, like the rise in 

 the ground made by a mole. Press with your finger-nail 

 along this furrow until the bark peels from beneath it; 

 this will tell you that the end of the burrow is reached, 

 then cut a slit that will lay open the bark, and the borer 

 will be at your mercy. 



When it has entered too deeply into the wood for the 

 knife to reach it, a bit of slender wire thrust into the hole 

 and pushed along the burrow until it will go no further, in 

 other words, has reached the end, will effectually dispose 

 of the intruder. 



Sometimes, however, the burrow has gone so far into 

 the tree that the winding tunnel can not be followed by the 

 wire, and then an ingenious device, the invention of a cel- 

 ebrated horticulturist, comes into service and rescues the 

 tree from death. This is nothing more than a little funnel- 

 shaped reservoir with a rubber tube, having a tiny nozzle 

 depending from it. The reservoir is filled with a solution 

 of tobacco or carbolic acid, then hung on a branch and 

 the nozzle inserted in the borer's hole ; the fluid flows slowly 

 down, and, following the windings of the tunnel, no mat- 

 ter how long or tortuous, ultimately meets the enemy and 

 destroys it. This result may be known by the fluid ceas- 

 ing to flow from the reservoir, showing that the tunnel is 

 completely occupied by the rescuing liquid. The fluid 

 does no harm to the tree, and a budding slip wrapped over 

 the hole will enable nature to repair damages very quickly. 



And right here we will speak a word in favor of the 



