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given for it on peach trees ; also on Pears. Paris Green 

 them early in the season. 



APPLE WORM. 



Codling moth : a true caterpillar ; and in due time 

 changes to a moth, called Carpo Capsa Pomofiella, and 

 is very beautiful, with brown, copper and gray colors, 

 with satin yellow. This moth does injury to pears, sure ; 

 but is not a pest as yet as it is in apple orchards. The eggs 

 are laid in the fruit, and the worm, hatching, burrows in 

 towards the core, and the apple drops, as a rule, and the 

 worm comes out of it, gets into a sheltered place in the 

 bark of the tree and spins a white cocoon, then turns 

 to a chrysalid, and then comes the moth again. This 

 is Harris's description. Paris Green these pests, or use 

 hellebore, etc. The grower who watches all these 

 destroyers the closest, and makes way with them, will 

 have the best fruit and most of it. I don't think the 

 peninsula grower yet realizes what destructive agents all 

 these creatures are, and they are increasing. After a 

 while some great natural destroyer comes along and 

 decimates them, just as happens to all life on the globe, 

 from the highest to the lowest ; for how else could life on 

 the earth survive } 



THE PEAR TREE OYSTER SCALE. 



Diaspis ostreae-formis, (Curtis.) From U. S. Gov. Agri- 

 cultural Report, 1880.) The scale of the female is circular 



