THE APPLE MOTH. 



Sept. 22. Was at Trenton to-day. The fruit in market here is more disfigured 

 by the enemies than I have seen it anywhere else this season. 



Sept. 22. Visited the old orchard, and found plenty of apple worms under the 

 scales of bark. Did all the apples containing the larvae of the Apple Moth fall to 

 the ground while they are yet in them, as is so generally the case with the young 

 Curculio, they would have been destroyed by this herd of cows, and I should have 

 been unable to find them under the bark on the bodies of the trees. 



Sept. 26. Was at the rooms of the Farmers' Club in New York to-day, but the 

 Horticultural Exhibition interfered with the meeting. The display. of fruits was 

 good, in some respects superior to that at Rochester. The Pears were very fine, and 

 some collections little injured by the insect enemies, but the Apples were much 

 specked. I examined carefully twenty-six plates of the latter, with five and six 

 specimens on each, and only eight were perfectly sound. Not one plate with all 

 perfect. The Apple Moth had done the greatest injury, but the Curculio had been 

 meddling with a great many of them. Some of the collections of Pears had also 

 been seriously injured. Even Quinces showed marks of both enemies. 



Sept. 28. Made another examination of the same worm trap, but found only 

 two. The run is evidently nearly over. 



Sept. 29. Visited Easton, Pennsylvania, to attend the exhibition of the State 

 Agricultural Society. The weather was very wet and disagreeable. Saw nothing . 

 except the fruit. The Curculio and Apple Moth had made their marks on this 

 Pennsylvania fruit even more abundantly than on the New York fruits, at the Ame- 

 rican Institute in the city, or at the Pomological Convention at Rochester. Nearly 

 all the Apples on the tables looked like wind-falls, and ripened prematurely. I 

 sometimes visit the markets in Philadelphia, in the winter, and for some years past 

 have seen more New York (or western) apples there than of their own native kinds. 

 This was not formerly so. 



Oct. i. Mr. Freeman, of South Orange, in this County, five miles from New- 

 ark, told me to-day that common apples were selling for 30 and 40 cents per 

 bushel. Many have been sold as high as 60 cents for Harrison and Canfield ; and 

 the cider made from these two kinds finds a ready sale at $9 oo a barrel. He told 

 me also that most of the cider-makers would not buy them, because " they were so 

 generally bored by worms as to be dry, making but little cider." This is another 



