3<D INSECTS INJURIOUS TO FRUIT. 



I have often carried such patients as these safely through a number of these 

 otherwise fatal wounds. Retired gentlemen of leisure, who become amateur fruit- 

 growers, can find amusement in this manner of fighting the Turk ; and although 

 rather a tedious operation, it is much better than cutting down the trees, or swearing 

 at the Curculio as some do. 



Figs. 2 and 3 are German Prunes, which are now becoming more popular than 

 other Plums, from an impression that they are less liable to be attacked by the 

 Curculio. 



Fig. 2 represents a Prune with two Curculio marks on the neck, both dried up 

 and harmless. This is a very common appearance of prunes late in the season. 

 Why the Curculio so generally chooses the neck of this class of plums, or why the 

 egg so often fails, I have not seen satisfactorily accounted for. This is an inducement 

 for cultivating the Prunes in preference to other Plums, to those who do not intend 

 to conquer the Curculio. 



Fig. 3 is the Fellenberg Prune, ripe the middle of September. Some others are 

 superior in flavor, and some ripen so late in the fall as to be more valuable on that 

 account. When the Curculio shall be disposed of, and plums recovered from among 

 the lost good things, many of the prunes will become favorite fruits. 



Fig. 4, in this Plate, is the Green Gage the good old Reine Claude. 



Figs. 5 and 6 show what it becomes under the management of the Curculio. 



Fig. 7. The same, when ready for the palate ; and the palate probably never 

 receives a pleasanter sensation. Had our Mother Eve been tempted with such fruit 

 instead of apples, when she " brought sin into the world, and all our woe," she would 

 have been more excusable. 



