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York agricultural society; from which it appears, 

 thai on cutting down some apple tiees, which were 

 far decayed, he discovered two worm holes running 

 perpendicularly, from the tap root, through the heart. 

 These holes were large enough te admit a pipe stem, 

 and reached about fourteen inches above the surface; 

 and from each hole a worm was taken. In some trees 

 eight or ten holes were found. Mr. Denning proposes 

 no remedy ; but Dr. Mease, editor of the domestick 

 encyclopedia, observes, that the worm must be search- 

 ed for with a wire, and bored out. The publickare 

 particularly indebted to J. Prince, Esq. and to Mr. E. 

 Hersey, of Roxbury, for their mode of destroying 

 this pernicious insect. 



From the Massachusetts Agricultural Repository, volume iv. 

 On a worm which attacks the apple tree. By John Prince. 

 Esq. 



JAMAICA PLAINS, JULY, 1819, 



DEAR SIR, I have, within a few years past, lost a 

 number of apple trees of from ten to fifteen years old, 

 and was not able to account for it. My young trees 

 also, that were beginning to bear, produced chiefly 

 wormy and knurly fruit. The last year I found what 

 I supposed to be the cause, which was a small, white, 

 ringed worm, about three quarters of an inch long, 

 with a dark coloured head, (I believe the same that 

 attacks the peach tree,) attacking them at and just be- 

 low the surface of the ground. I mentioned the sub- 

 ject to professor Perk, yourself, and several other 

 gentlemen, who had never heard of this destroyer of 

 the apple tree. I feared much the loss of my trees, 

 of which 1 have near one thousand, and mostly of my 

 own planting. This spring, a man, who was grafting 

 for me some old trees, told me he had trees that had 

 been affected in the same way, and that they were 

 very easily got rid of, by digging round the trees, and 



