OP FRUIT TREDS. 1Q9 



powerful antidote against lice, but being of a glu- 

 tinous quality, is very detrimental to the tree. 

 Inoculation has been proposed ; which, I think* 

 will have no effect at all on the lice ; for I perceive 

 they hatch in May, on branches that were pruned 

 off the tree in March, and the sap entirely extin- 

 guished. 



" These lice are natural in the uncultivated 

 forest, on what is called moose-wood, and other 

 bushes. 



" Much care should be taken on their first ap- 

 pearing in an orchard or nursery; as the cutting 

 down and destroying a few young trees is of no im- 

 portance, compared with the difficulty of having an 

 orchard overrun with them. 



" P. S. The brine or pickle, with which the 

 tree is to be washed, should not be such as has 

 had meat salted in it ; but let one quart of com- 

 mon salt be dissolved in two gallons of clean 

 water." 



As a remedy against these lice, the clay paint, 

 mentioned, page 74, may be recommended. If 

 this were properly applied to the trunk and 

 branches of the tree after the eggs are hatched, it 

 would so completely envelop the insects as proba- 

 bly to counteract their mischievous effects. 



CURCULIO. 



The following is extracted from the Domestick 

 Encyclopedia, edited by Dr. Mease. 



" The editor is indebted to his excellent friend, 

 Dr. James Tilton, of Wilmington, Delaware, for 

 the following original and very valuable communi- 

 cation, on the subject of the insect, which has been 

 so actively engaged in destroying the fruit of Penn- 

 sylvania, Delaware, (and, probably, of the other 

 states,) for a few years past. It were to be wished, 

 that other gentlemen among us, who have oppor- 



