FACT NUMBER TWO. 35 



THE PLUM TREE, 



Section II, 

 THE REMEDY FOR THE PLUM TREE. 



Experience has shown that, where there are no plum 

 trees, there are no plum tree insects ; therefore, to effect a 

 radical cure of the Black Bunch, the present stock of plum 

 trees, now rendered almost valueless, should be taken, by 

 common consent and simultaneous action, and cast into the 

 fire, root and branch. 



The surviving insects, if any, will perish in the course of 

 a year or two ; hence, eighteen months after the destruction, a 

 new stock may be planted from choice seed, which will not 

 be troubled with lice until the country shall be again infect- 

 ed with them through the importation of trees from the 

 old world. The whole process may occupy some six or 

 seven years ; and the new stock of trees may thrive and 

 bear fruit for half a century ; for we have now many aged 

 persons among us who remember when the lice, the Black 

 Bunch, and the premature decay of the plum tree, were 

 things altogether unknown, and such may again be the 

 case if all the people, as one man, shall see fit to will it. 

 Actual experiments abundantly prove that the plum tree can- 

 not be raised, even from the seed, in the immediate vicinity 

 of old diseased trees, without subjecting it to the visitation 

 of this Black Bunch at a very early age. 



Now, as this mode of destroying the Black Bunch, may 



