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- 

 tion in our neighbor's ills, to which 

 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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