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see the eggs, of which every female lays some sixty or a hundred, 

 glued over, closely arranged in rows, and placed in the forks of 

 branches, and among the young twigs. About the twentieth of May, 

 these eggs are hatched, and the canker worms, dusky-brown, or ash- 

 colored, with a yellow stripe, make their appearance, and commence 

 preying upon the foliage." 



The remedies preventive of their injuries, are, a belt of canvas 

 saturated with tar and train oil, and encircling the body of the tree. 

 Another is a leaden trough, encircling the body, secured by wooden 

 wedges, between it and the tree, and filled with oil. Another, is 

 spading up the ground underneath all trees on which they appear, in 

 the Fall, and dressing liberally with lime. Another, is bands of straw 

 and cotton-batting tied around the tree, and examined daily to kill 

 all that have become entangled therein. 



" Apate Bicaudatus. This is the scientific name given by Mr. Say 

 to a little beetle whose injurious habits have lately been observed. 

 The insects are found burrowing in the pith of the young branches 

 of the apple tree, during the Spring. The branches above the seat 

 of attack soon die. These beetles are from one-quarter to more 

 than three-tenths of an inch long, cylindrical, 4ark chestnut brown, 

 roughened like a grater, on the fore part of the thorax, with short 

 spines pointing backwards, and armed, in the males, with an incurved 

 spine, near the tip of each wing-cover. 



" The Palmer Worm, a wanderer, as its name signifies, is a small 

 worm, about half an inch in length, with many legs, and extremely 

 nimble. It appears at different times, in different parts of the coun- 

 try, and on apple, oak, cherry, plum, and other trees. They give the 

 trees the same appearance as the canker worm does ; and not only 

 the leaves, but sometimes the fruit is injured or destroyed by them. 

 Their appearance is generally directly after the canker worm ; and 

 they differ from them in having sixteen legs, in being much more 

 active in their motions, and in creeping without looping or arching 

 up their backs at every step. They are also smaller and differently 

 colored. The same remedies are applied to prevent their depreda- 

 tions as with the canker worm." For further information respecting 

 this insect, see N. Y. State Agricultural Society's Transactions, 1853. 



" The New York Weevil, ( Curculio Noveboracensis^) attacks in May 

 and June the buds and young shoots of trees ; gnawing them so 

 that they break off and die. They work most in the night, and still, 

 cloudy weather. They may be destroyed or their ravages prevented, 

 by pursuing the same remedies as for the plum weevil." For further 

 description, see as above, N. Y. S. Transactions, 1853. 



" The Oak-pruner, (Stenocorus putator,) occasionally attacks the 

 small branches of the apple tree ; and the blight beetle, Scolytus or 

 Tomicus pyri, whose perforations blast and kill the branches of the 



