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during the warm evenings of mid-summer ; and. further- 

 more, as he is always attracted in the dark, toward a bright 

 blaze ; torches, therefore, have been provided for the purpose, 

 and carried through the orchard immediately after dark, and 

 the bug has been caught by thousands and bagged up for 

 subsequent destruction. 



Lastly ; — Small fires have been built at several points 

 near the orchard ground, which have in a little time drawn 

 nearly all these insects from their lurking places about the 

 trees and the fruit, directly into the fire. This precaution, 

 followed up nightly for a few weeks, has been known to save 

 the fruit effectually for the whole season. 



As to the Rose Bug, the fruit spoiler from the " Queen 

 of Flowers," we are not, in truth, famillM- with his habits, 

 nor with the extent of his ravages. We have been told, how- 

 ever, that he is from the Dog Rose, generally, and makes 

 his flights only in dry, warm sun-light. If this be true, we 

 desire, as an appropriate means of effecting his capture and 

 destruction, to recommend a machine, which was primarily 

 constructed for another purpose. 



This is a great sheet, — cheap cotton factory cloth, formed 

 so as to be spread out, on all sides, beneath the boughs of the 

 fruit tree, and something beyond the extremity of the outer 

 limbs ; then, if sprinkled moderately with water, and the 

 bugs shaken from the tree into the sheet, they will remain 

 until they may be gathered Up for destruction. 



The same sheet may be used, as long experience proves, 

 without the trouble of sprinkling, to gather the destructive 

 worm called the caterpillar and hold him for extermination ; 

 but then he must be taken before he forms his net- work nest 

 on the tree, otherwise it is no easy matter to dislodge him by 

 a simple shake of the boughs. If however it should so hap- 

 pen that he escape attention until he gets housed about by 

 his silken web, bidding defiance to the jostlings of the hand 

 or the winds, and the peltings of the rains, then he must be 



