34 FACT NUMBER TWO. 



the veiy heart some two or three feet above the root. In 

 this operation, he not only breaks the bark and lets out the 

 gam, forming, of the life of the tree, fit habitations for vari- 

 ous other irritating and cankering insects, but leaves the 

 road open for the approach of the auger-worm, whose tooth, 

 like the waste of time, soon or late, perfects a total ruin of the 

 tree. 



Two or three modes of avoiding the evils inflicted by this 

 insect, both in its worm and bug form, and even before it 

 has assumed either form, will be given in the third chapter 

 while providing for the preservation of the Peach Tree. 



