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injured by a small, light green caterpillar, which is 

 also found to infest the apple blossom and the young 

 forming fruit, and which feeds upon it. When the 

 trees are blighted with honey-dew, or infested with 

 the green fly, they ought to be washed with strong 

 soap-suds, or cleansed with a soft brush dipped in a 

 lye of lime-water, sulphur, and tobacco. 



Propagation is by dividing the roots, by budding 

 on the briar, and by layers laid down the beginning 

 of July. As a skilful gardener is not always at 

 hand to perform this last-named method of propa- 

 gation, I will endeavour briefly to describe it, and 

 which some of my readers, perhaps, may be inclined 

 to perform themselves. 



Select the strong young shoots that have been 

 formed the same year ; then, with a sharp budding 

 or other thin-bladed knife, begin a quarter of an 

 inch below the joint, and make an incision of three- 

 quarters of an inch in length on the side next the 

 ground, up the middle of the shoot; after which, cut 

 off transversely the nib or extremity of the tongue 

 just below the joint; then move the ground, and 



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