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grown there. The ploughing is done with oxen, that there may be no whiffle-trees to 

 injure the bark of the young trees. At length the trees begin to blossom. Blossoms 

 are always pretty, but none have ever been so pretty as these. There is some young 

 fruit, but it falls off. No matter ; there will be the more next year. The trees now 

 grow beautifully ; how large, and what a dark green the leaves are ! How often the 

 orchard is talked about ! Every visitor must go to see the orchard. It is the Central 

 Park of that couple's little world. 



Six, eight, and ten years have passed. Several babies but still no "Sweet 

 Boughs " for summer, no " Spitzenbergs " for winter. The Apple Tree Borers are 

 sometimes found ; they came from the nursery in the young trees, but have been dug 

 out and destroyed. Some of the Pear trees have been killed with Blight. Bark lice 

 have been troublesome, but have been subdued by proper washes. Tent caterpillars 

 have come from the neighboring orchards, or the neglected hedge-rows of wild 

 cherry trees ; but the clusters of eggs left by the moths on the twigs have been cut 

 off in the winter, or the caterpillars in their nests have been killed when too young 

 to have done much mischief. Other enemies have been kept in subjection by this 

 careful, pains-taking, industrious young farmer. But the fruit all falls prematurely, and 

 what shall be done ? 



Reader, if the ground under your fruit trees presents the appearance in midsum- 

 mer of the one on this Plate, either the Curculio or Apple Moth, or both, have been 

 there. Find out for yourself what it is, by cutting into these young fruits, and con- 

 trasting the living things you find there with the grub of the Curculio on Plates 

 3, 4, and 5, or the larva of the Apple Moth on Plate 9, Figure i. If the grub of the 

 Curculio has been the cause of all this falling, you know what to do. Every fruit 

 that is destroyed by that enemy falls to the ground with that young grub inside of it, 

 and continues there long enough to give the fruit-grower who chooses to destroy it, 

 ample time to do so. If, on the contrary, it is the larva of the Apple Moth, as it 

 very often is, in the Apples and Pears, then the case is different. Many of these 

 caterpillars, or " worms," as they are usually called, will escape from the fruit before 

 that fruit comes to the ground. In that event you want some way of trapping them. 

 It has been long known that these Apple Worms, as well as some other caterpillars, 

 will take advantage of the protection of cloths, old fragments of leather, pieces of boards 

 lying near together, &c. I have seen several notices from foreign papers recommend- 



