CH. 3.] CHERRIES. 6i 



pillar ; and the grub *. The firft, and leaft 

 hurtful, is eafily deftroyed by a fumigation 

 of tobacco. The fecond, may be fuppref- 

 fed by the procefs of wafliing with the en- 

 gine, which is indifpenfably neceflary to 

 the health and vigour of the trees. There- 

 fore, when they begin to make their ap- 

 pearance at any time, let the water, in the 

 ordinary courfe of walhing, be thrown 

 againft the trees with greater force ; ma- 

 king a point of beginning at the contrary 

 end of the houfe each time ; whereby, if 

 any part {hall be mifled the one way, it 

 may be hit the other. 



The caterpillar and grub, have given me 

 more trouble than the preceding, or indeed 

 any fpecies of infed: whatever ; and, after 

 trying a variety of prefcriptions, and having 

 been at much trouble and expence, I can ven- 

 ture to affiire the reader, that I have at laft 

 difcovered a cure : the receipt of which I 



fhall 



* Not the land-grub : a fmall grecnifh -black worm, 

 of the caterpillar kind, with a black head, about three- 

 eights, or half an inch in length, often called " the 

 " grub" by gardeners. It' is generally found rolled up 

 in a kind of down or wool, in the leaves of cherries, 

 apricots, &c. 



