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the other end to his pump-handle, so that it shook the tree 

 whenever they drew water. It saved the fruit. 



This insect on one point is very sagacious. It is un- 

 willing to have its progeny drop on the pavement, or into 

 water. The same shrewd horticulturist set his nectarine 

 trees leaning over the fish-pond, and not a curculio dis- 

 turbed them. In regard to pavements, we have had 

 several accounts of their efficacy. A friend of ours had 

 his plums to ripen perfectly over a pavement, while oth- 

 ers, without this protection, though otherwise favorably 

 situated, were entirely destroyed. 



Only a few trees, however, can be guarded in this way. 

 For the fruit garden, we want something more compre- 

 hensive, and have already referred to the services of 

 swine and poultry. They devour much of the, wormy 

 fruit, and the young curculios along with it ; but some 

 of the insects probably escape, besides all such as leave 

 the fruit before it falls.* How long they live, is not 

 known ; but if we may judge from their difference of size, 

 it may be many years ; and to this company, the new 

 brood is annually added. Unless the swine and poultry, 

 therefore, can induce them to migrate, the fruit must suf- 

 fer greatly from their ravages, and such has been our 

 experience. 



Finding many of our trees nearly unproductive, we 

 determined in the early part of last summer, to call these 

 depredators to account. Accordingly, we followed the 

 same plan that we recommended some years ago in the 

 " New- York Farmer :" spread sheets under the trees, 

 and jarred the branches violently. The little marauders 

 taken by surprise, fell down by dozens ; and f he contrast 

 of colors, enabled us to detect them at a glance. We 

 chose the cool of the morning for this purpose, when they 



* Last summer, we observed several cases of this kind, where the hurra had es- 

 caped through small holes in the sides of plums and apricots. 



