SECTION III. 



INSECTS, DISEASES, REMEDIES, &C. 



To purchase the best trees, and to set them 

 in the best location, and in the most careful 

 manner, is so far well. But much more than 

 this is necessary. The soil must be tilled and 

 occasionally fertilized, diseases require their 

 appropriate remedies, insects must be destroy- 

 ed, suckers and dead wood must be pruned 

 away. Indeed, there is scarcely a month in 

 the year, when the hand of the careful culti- 

 vator may not find profitable employment 

 among his trees. 



We shall, in this place, speak in very gen- 

 eral terms of insects and diseases. In the de- 

 struction of the one, as in the curing of the 

 other, the orchardist ought, always to make a 

 prompt and seasonable movement ; for insects 

 increase with astonishing rapidity, and dis- 

 eases, long neglected, can hardly be eradicated 

 without destroying the life of the patient. 



Insects are kept away from plants and trees, 



