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gardener who worked in my garden seve- 

 ral years ago stated that he was well ac- 

 quainted v.ith tlie bug as lie termed it, 

 since his childhood, and that it had been 

 the destruction of man}' fruits, not apples 

 in particular, in the neighbourhood of 

 Montpelier, where he was [)rouglit up. 

 He also suggested that tlie frost of our 

 severe winters migiit be the means of 

 killing it, from its being, in his opinion, 

 originally a native of a warmer climate : 

 this caused me to pay attention to its ha- 

 bits, and I soon found that in the cold of 

 our winters it usually disappeared, al- 

 though there was the appearance of some 

 of it among the cracks in the bark, but 

 not so much as in the summer weather. 

 I therefore had recourse to scraping the 

 outer bark and washing the trees over 

 with soap suds, and solutions of lime, soot, 

 and sul])]mr ; and although from the above 

 treatment, or the operation of the brush, 

 they were in great measure killed or their 

 progress lessened, yet I was mortified 

 greatly to find that every spring they were 

 quickly renewed. 



