THE MAGAZINE 



HORTICULTURE 



AUGUST, 1843. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. The CurcuUo, (Rhynclisenus Cerasi Peck.) its 

 natw'al history, habits, character, and the best mode of 

 preventing its destructive ravages ; together with remarks 

 on the cause of the disease known as the Warty Excres- 

 cence, arid suggestions to prevent its appearatice. In a 

 letter to the Committee on Fruits of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society. By Dr. Joel Burnett, Southbor- 

 ough, Mass. 



The Curculio. 



Gentlemen. — Noticing the vote of the Massachnsetts 

 Horticultural Society, in the New England Farmer of July 

 14, 1S41, which awards a premium of $200 for a success- 

 ful mode of destroying the Curculio, and also the vote 

 placing the subject under the direction of the Fruit Com- 

 mittee, I am induced to address you upon that subject. 



1 consider the motive philanthropic in passing this vote, 

 for members of that Society well know the pleasure and 

 the profit of cultivating good fruit, and the healthy and 

 harmless luxury, and the delicious fare it always affords, 

 and wishing to remove every obstacle in the way of, and 

 grant every facility in, its cultivation ; in order that this 

 pleasure, so productive of profit and comfort, may become 

 general in the community, have generously offered this 

 reward to any one who will make known to you a suc- 

 cessful mode of removing the great, or only impediment, 

 which lies in the way of success in the cultivation of those 

 delicious and beautiful fruits— the plum and peach. 



It will be my aim to state here what I know of this 

 insect from observation, entering somewhat into his natural 

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