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« The March following" (per- 

 haps April in iliis countr)) "you 

 must cut off the stock close to the 

 bud, sloping it that the wet may 

 pass off, and not enter the stock. 

 To thi* part of the stock, left above 

 the bud, it is very proper to fasten 

 the shoot which the bud makes in 

 summer, to secure it from being 

 blown out ; but this part of the stock 

 must continue on no longer than un- 

 til the bud has acquired strength to 

 support itself,after which it must be 

 cut offclose above the bud that the 

 stock may be covered thereby. 



" The time for inoculating is 

 from the middle of June to the mid- 

 dle of September, according to the 

 forwardness of the season, and the 

 particular sorts of trees to be ino- 

 culated, which may be easily 

 k lown by trying the buds, whether 

 they will come off well from the 

 wood. But the most general rule 

 is, when you observe the buds for- 

 med at the extremity of the same 

 year's shoots, which is a sign of 

 their having finished their spring 

 growth." Gardener''s Diet. 



INSECT. We shall only be 

 able to notice a iew of those insects, 

 which are more injurious than oth 

 ers to the labours, and often fatal to 

 the hopes of the husbandman, with 

 the intimation of such remedies as 

 have been found most effectual. 



The Grasshopper is one of the 

 most constant aimoyers of the far- 

 mer. In all years it is found in 

 greater or less numbers. In hot 

 and dry seasons it seems to multi- 

 ply more rapidly, and occasionally 

 it lays waste whole tracts of coun- 

 try. The causes of the varieties in 

 their numbers is unknown. Some 



insects, for instance one of the lo- 

 custs, it is ascertained, lie in the 

 chrysalis state, exactly sixteen 

 years — but why such insects as the 

 grasshopper, which never quits us, 

 should sometimes over-abound so 

 as to endanger the subsistence of 

 man, is not understood. It is mat- 

 ter of regret, thatno method has yet 

 been discovered of checking this 

 insect. The letting in of troops of 

 turkies and chickens to the field is, 

 to be sure, a palliative : But, it is 

 obvious that it cannot be exten- 

 sively practised. The poultr}'^, 

 themselves, do great mischief to the 

 crop, and the support of them, in 

 great numbers throughout the year, 

 might be fairly set against the be- 

 nefit they might do. 



Curculio, a small bug, which per- 

 forates the young fruit of the pear, 

 apple, and all stone fruits, and de- 

 posits its eggs within them. There 

 are several sorts of them. The 

 eggs soon hatch, and a small mag- 

 got is produced, which feeds either 

 on the pulp, or on the kernel of the 

 seed, for the tastes and habits of the 

 various species are very different. 

 In the stone fruits this injury de- 

 stroys their growth, and they fall, 

 with th^ir little enemy within them, 

 who soon seeks shelter in the ground, 

 where he passes the winter in the 

 chrysalis state, and comes forth, 

 just as the young fruit is forming,or 

 as the petals of the flowers are fal- 

 ling, to renew the work of destruc- 

 tion. As this is a winged insect, 

 and probably flies with ease, for he 

 is never caught, like the canker- 

 worm, ascending the trunk,it would 

 seem that most of the remedies 

 proposed in agricultural works 



