100 FRUIT GARDEN. 



Red Rareripe, Noblesse, 



Lemon Cling, Royal George, 



Madeleine de Courson, Tippecanoe, 



Malta, Incomparable Admirable. 



Rareripe, 



Enemies of the Peach- Tree. The chief of these in the 

 United States are, first, the Yellows, to which we have re- 

 ferred, and ascribed to some uncongenialit y of soil to the tree, 

 as well as to exhaustion, where there is not sufficient fertil- 

 ity; and, secondly, the peach- worm which excavates the bark, 

 so as often to girdle the tree immediately below the crown 

 of the root. Its presence may always be known by a mass 

 of gum, which exudes from the wounds, and a portion of 

 which pushes itself a little above the surface of the ground. 

 The worm, which is of a yellowish- white color, grows to 

 the size of an inch in length, is very voracious, and the 

 product of a four-winged long-shaped fly, with dark steel- 

 blue wings, and yellow bands about the body. It is a 

 species of .^Egeria, called by Say, who has described it, 

 exigiosa, or the destructive, and its eggs are deposited 

 during the summer upon the outer surface of the tree, near 

 the root. As soon as these hatch, the minute maggot-like 

 larva penetrate the bark, and begin their work of destruc- 

 tion, which increases with their size. They live in this 

 way about a year, when they cut out and enter their 

 chrysalis state, between the tree and the earth, covered 

 with the gum which bulges out from the base of the tree. 

 After lying here a little while, they come forth in a new 

 form of winged insects, and are soon busy in depositing a 

 new crop of eggs for the production of more extensive 

 destruction. A particular description of this insect and 

 its habits may be found in the Farmers' 1 and Planters' 

 Encyclopedia y under the head " Peach." Putting a quart 



