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PLATE XI. 



1. Represents the hay-rope trap, slipped up a few inches above where it had been set. 



2. Shows where this hay-rope band has been during the season. The marks are intended to represent the 



slight concavities made by the Apple Worms under the rope. 



THIS Plate represents a Tree of Fall Apples, as it appears where the Curculio 

 and Apple Moth are not interfered with, but are permitted to have things their own 

 way. 



This tree is intended to represent the one so often spoken of in the following 

 diary, on which were caught nearly two hundred of these Apple Worms during the 

 season of 1864. 



These bands should be put on the trees as soon as the fruit shows signs of the 

 worms being at work, as seen in the illustrations in Plate Q ; from the middle to the 

 last of June. They should be examined every two weeks, as long as warm weather 

 lasts, the earlier broods of worms becoming moths, and producing a second crop. 

 If the orchard is pastured the bands must of course be put out of reach of the 

 animals. Sometimes it may be necessary to place them round the limbs ; in that case 

 the scales of bark on the bodies of trees below them should be scraped off. 



Those who watch the falling of the blossoms from fruit trees will notice that the 

 greater number leave no embryo fruits. A few days later a large portion of the young 

 fruits that had formed, cease to grow, and they soon fall off. These are blights, and 

 this is nature's mode of relieving the parent of the burden of too large a family. 

 Occasionally there will be a frost just as the petals of the blossoms have fallen off, and 

 the germ being exposed at its most tender age, sometimes the whole crop will perish. 



In the spring of 1864, when the Pear, Peach, Plum, and Cherry trees were just 

 shedding their blossoms, there came several days of very warm wet weather, with 

 scarcely any wind ; and during this time a dense fog prevailed for many hours. The 

 calyx surrounding the embryo fruit was now like a sponge, absorbing the rain, and 



there being no chance to dry during all this time, the fruit germ rotted. By sepa- 



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