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loop ; and then the bristles being introduced between 

 the remainder of the two branches of the wire, and 

 these closely twisted, upon them the bristles are im- 

 moveably fixed ; and thus is formed, after being uni- 

 formly sheared, a cylindrical brush, about six inches 

 long and two and a half in diameter. This brush is 

 fastened to the end of a long pole, having a groove a- 

 bout seven or eight inches long at the small end, in 

 which the twisted wire of the brush was laid and 

 bound on with strings. In using the brush, press it on 

 tbe nest, and turing the pole in the hand the web is 

 entangled with the bristles and removed ; or other- 

 wise, you rub the fork of the limb inside and outside 

 with the brush, when the nest and worms are surely 

 killed or brought down. The pole may be longer or 

 shorter according to the distance which you have to 

 reach. Numerous other methods have been from 

 time to time suggested for the destruction of these 

 vermin, but they may be destroyed with great facility 

 by a little industry, with the hand or the brush, if re- 

 peated two or three times a week during their season. 

 It has recently been ascertained that some of the in- 

 sects or millers which deposit their eggs from which 

 the caterpillar is produced, are left in old nests after 

 the caterpillars have deserted them in the month of 

 June. The destruction of the old nests therefore, and 

 the insects contained in them, before they have time 

 to deposite their eggs in August for the next year, will 

 prove the most effectual method ol destroying these 

 troublesome vermin for all future seasons and eventu- 

 ally of annihilating the whole tribe. 



THE WORM CALLED THE BORER. 



An interesting paper by W. Denning, Esq. op the 

 subject of the alarming decay of a-pple trees, is insert- 

 ed in the first volume of the transactions of the New 



