FRUIT CULTURE. 



the skin and gnaws its way down the fruit. After it 

 is nearly full grown, it feeds upon the seed, generally 

 causing the fruit to fall. It then deserts its feeding 

 ground, and seeks a place where it may make a cocoon 

 and pass the winter. This may be in the crevices of the 

 bark of trees, chinks of a wall, or in the eye of the fruit 

 itself, but not under the soil. It remains in the grub 

 state for long after the gathering of the fruit, finally 

 changing into a pupa, and ultimately attaining the pei'fect 

 state in June or July. 



REMEDIES. All fallen apples should be promptly 

 collected and burnt, or given to pigs before the grubs have 

 had time to desert them, and in this way large numbers 

 will be destroyed. Also many may be caught by tying 

 hay or twisted straw ropes round the lower part of 

 the trunk of the tree. Finding suitable accommodation, 

 they seek no farther, but lay up there. These traps may 

 be collected a fortnight after the gathering of the fruit 

 and burnt. Various other contrivances have also been 

 invented for the destruction of the moth at this, the most 

 convenient stage for getting at it. What is known as 

 the Codliii Grub Trap consists of thin pieces of board 

 placed over each other, held apart by means of thin laths 

 to allow of a hiding-place for the grubs, and held to- 

 gether by a nail, or screw, in the middle. All rough 

 bark, moss, lichens, and other means of concealment, 

 should be cleaned away from the stems of the trees, so 

 that as little encouragement may be given the enemy as 

 possible. 



THE GREEN PUG (Eupithecia rectangulata). The larva) 

 of this small moth are very mischievous to the flowers of 

 the apple and pear in some parts of the country. They 

 appear in April and May, and tie the petals together, 



