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.poisibly be even more effectual than either used by itself.. Strong 

 suds made of common soap answers tolerably well, in many cases. 



Much has been accomplished, by kindling bonfires in a fruit- 

 garden, at night. ThousancJ^ of winged insects, from a sort of 

 instinctive fondness for the light, fly into thfese fires aiid perish at 

 once.' 



Wide-mouthed bottles, filled with molasses and water, and sus- 

 pended among the trees, will speedily become full of inkect^,^' ' 



Apple Tre? Borer. — Tliis insect "is from the larv?^ 

 of tte two striped sapeda (&jt?<?^/a hivitiati) The up- 

 per part of the body of the perfect insect is marked 

 with two longitudinal ^hite stri^oes, among others of 

 a light brown, while the face, antennaB^ the iinder 

 side: of the body and legs, are white. It is about 3-| 

 of an ii;ch long. This beetle cpmes from the tree in 

 June and feeds iipon the leaves. From June to Aug«' 

 it deposits its Qgg-:i on the bark of the tree at the 

 ground." The larvaB or young borers, from the ^g^g^j 

 are fleshy, round, whitish grubs, without ' legs, taper- 

 iiig from the first ring. The first season it eat« 

 through the bark — -the next, it penetrates the wood 

 about *t>velve inches. The third season it comet ta 

 the mouth of tlie hole^ a full sized borer, anS there 

 changes to the beetle, [sap^da UvUtati.) 



To Mil them, run a piece of wire or whalebone into 

 their holes, or smoke them with lighted brimstone 

 matches, or put a small piece of gum camphor in the 

 hole and plug it up. To prevent their depositing eggs, 

 "wash the trunks of the trees with a solution of whale- 

 oil soap and hendu^g, or lye of wood ashes that will 

 Bear up an ^gg. 



Apple Worm or Codling Moth. — This bpautiful moth 

 deposits its eggs in the eye of apples ' and summei:' 

 pears, during the last part of June and July/ They 

 hatch in a few days, and eat into the apples, which 

 causes them to ripen prematurely and fall upon the 

 ground. They then make their egress and entering 

 some crevice of the tree, spin a cocoon about them, 

 in which they remain until spring. To destroy ihem^ 

 jpick up the defective fruit as fast as it falls and feed it 



