2081 OHKRRy TREE. 



Curculio. This is a bug, about the size of that which 

 eats into the pea, and has proved very troublesome to 

 most of the smooth skinned stone fruits, and even to 

 peaches, apples, and pears, in some parts of the United 

 States. It ascends the trees in the spring, and as the 

 fruit advances it makes a wound in the skin, and there 

 deposits the embryo ; from which a maggot is produced. 

 This preys upon the fruit until it dies and falls off; 

 when the maggot makes its way into the earth, and is 

 there changed into a bug, which is ready to ascend the 

 tree the next spring, and make its deposit, as before. 



It is recommended to put a ring round the tree, of 

 a mixture of greese, or blubber, mixed with salt. Per- 

 haps some of the other ingredients for destroying worms, 

 would answer abetter purpose. 



Mr. Philips^ of Pennsylvania, finds hogs of great use in 

 an orchard of plum trees. They cause his trees to bear 

 plentifully ; while, without those animals, the trees bear 

 very little. The reason of this is, that the swine, by 

 eating up all the fruit which falls from ihe trees, destroy 

 the voung brood of curculiones deposited in the fruit, 

 which is the cause of its early falHng off. 



CHERRY TREE. 



It is to be regretted, says Dr. Thacher, that the cul- 

 tivation of the valuable kinds of cherries is so generally 

 neglected. Many i^dvantages would accrue to the farm- 

 er from the cultivation of the cherry tree ; it would 

 serve the useful purposes of ornament and shade to hi* 

 orchard and buildings, and the fruit would afford 

 his family not merely an innocent, but salutary luxury ; 

 and if near a market, the profit would re»unerate him 

 for ail his labor and expense. 



Cherries are propagated by budding them upon stocks, 

 raised from the stones of the common black or red cher- 

 ry, or upon stocks raised from the stones of any other 

 kind of the same fruit ; but the two first are most es- 

 teemed for that purpose, because they generally shoot 

 much *reer than any other. The stocks are obtained by 

 planting the seeds in a nursery, and the seedlings are 

 afterwards transplanted. The whole method of man- 

 agement pertaining to cherry trees is so precisely simi- 



