98 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO FRUIT. 



thirty in all instead of thirty bushels." The ground under the trees presents a sad 

 appearance. I have seen, where over-ripe persimmons have fallen from the trees in 

 winter, the ground covered with a yellow mash. The ground under the Plum trees 

 presented a somewhat similar appearance. Many were still on the trees, looking like 

 those in the Frontispiece, Fig. 5. 



Sept. 10. NEW VERNON, MORRIS Co., N. J. Here are Peach orchards cele- 

 brated for the excellence of the fruit, and especially for its beauty of color. The best 

 trees as well as the best fruit grow where the soil is strongly marked with the presence 

 of iron. The owners of the principal orchards here were from Monmouth Co., N. J. 

 They understood the cultivation of the Peach thoroughly, and were making the 

 business profitable. They told me that they considered the Yellows a good thing; 

 without it peaches would be so plentiful as not to pay ; as it is, good cultivators can 

 make money. The Curculio they found troublesome in thin crops, but it does good 

 to heavy ones. These men might be called Peach Philosophers ; they seemed to be 

 satisfied with everything excepting only the war ; that preventing them from getting 

 Peach pits from a part of Virginia where the trees are still free from the Yellows. 

 The favorite peaches here were Jaques or Yellow Rare Ripe, Mountain Rose, 

 Stump the World, Crawford's Early and Crawford's Late, and Keyport White. 



13-15- United States Pomological Convention at Rochester. I shall long 

 remember this meeting with pleasure. The characters of men devoted to Pomology 

 are probably influenced by the pursuit. The intellectual man is moulded into shape 

 by the beauties of nature, and he becomes intelligent and good. A very small per- 

 centage of the whole people of this country are members of the Society of Friends, 

 but a very large percentage of the members of this Convention were of that deno- 

 mination. 



Dec. 5. I find no notes in my diary about the Curculio for nearly three 

 months. I see its marks on the apples every day. No matter where I go or where 

 the apples have come from, there the Curculio has been. The signs of its former 

 presence on many of these are generally in the form of a little shield, as seen in Plate 

 5, Figure i, a mere discoloration, without causing any injury not even a deformity. 

 In many the mark will be little more than a slight depression. In some there will be 

 several of these, and the apple will be much injured both externally and internally, 

 as in Plate 5, Figure 3. All this may be seen in the fruit that comes to the markets ; 

 but go to the orchards or cider mills, and it is ten times worse. With all this, 



