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or infected part in your tree, using a common 

 painter's brush. This I prefer doing in spring, or 

 as soon as the hoariness appears. The substance 

 soon sufficiently hardens, and forms a varnish, which 

 prevents any escape, and stifles the individuals. 

 After this first dressing, should any cottony matter 

 appear round the margin of the varnish, a second 

 application to these parts will, I think, be found to 

 effect a perfect cure. 



The prevalence of this insect gives some of our 

 orchards here the appearance of numerous white 

 posts in an extensive drying ground, being washed 

 with lime from root to branch a practice I appre- 

 hend attended with little benefit ; a few creatures 

 may be destroyed by accident, but as the animal 

 does not retire to the earth, but winters in the clefts 

 of the boughs far beyond the influence of this 

 wash, it remains uninjured, to commence its ravages 

 again when spring returns. 



Seasons arrive and pass away, the general fea- 

 tures alone remaining impressed upon our minds ; 

 but they often produce consequences not commonly 

 expected, and a departed summer or winter has 

 frequently been the cause of some event, which we 

 consider as exclusively occasioned by atmospheric 

 changes, or present temperature. A warm dry 

 summer generally occasions a healthy spring blossom 

 the ensuing year, the bearing wood being ripened 

 and matured to produce in its most perfect state. 



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