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cure against the severity of frost, and in the spring 

 give their trunks a thorough coating of whitewash or 

 of soft undiluted soap. All stone fruit is liable to suf- 

 fer injury by a small bug called curcuiio, which stings 

 the fruit and causes it to fall from the tree. (See 

 page 109 for a particular description.) It has been 

 found by experience that the depredations of these in- 

 sects may be prevented by paving the ground round 

 the trees, as far as the branches extend, as it is well 

 ascertained that the curcuiio will not infest those trees 

 where they cannot find means of immediately con- 

 cealing themselves in the earth, on dropping from the 

 branches. The following are esteemed among the 

 best on the list of Nectarines. 



Brugnon, Red Roman, 



Early Scarlet, Yellow, 



Golden, White French^ 



Murry, 



CHERRIES. 



THERE are several native varieties of the cherry ia 

 the United States, which have been perpetuated from 

 the seed, unaided by the hand of culture, and, as sup- 

 posed, without any deviation from the original stock. 

 But the cultivated kinds are far more valuable, and it 

 is greatly to be regretted, that they are so generally 

 neglected. Many advantages would accrue to the 

 farmer from the cultivation of the cherry tree : it 

 would serve the useful purposes of ornament and shade 

 to his orchard and buildings, and the fruit would af- 

 ford his family riot merely an innocent, but a salutary 

 luxury ; and if near a market, the profit would remu- 

 nerate him for all his labour and expense. 



