INSECT IN TREES IN THE NURSERY. 65 



sionally of importing apple trees in pots on 

 Paradise stocks from France, and that it made 

 its appearance first on them, the following sum- 

 mer after they were imported; and during the 

 same summer made its appearance in a nursery 

 belonging to Mr. Grimwood, at Knightsbridge, 

 being near to where Mr. Swinton then lived. 

 This will not appear at all unlikely that it 

 should make its appearance in a ground only a 

 few hundred yards from each other, when the 

 real nature of this insect is explained ; in fact, 

 for a long period my ears have been open to 

 every word that has been spoken on this subject, 

 for having been in the habit of grafting several 

 thousand apples annually, for many years past* 



it induced m to pay more than 01 diu<ay 



to this destructive i 



THE MANNER THE INSECT OPERATES O# THE 

 TREES WHILE IN THE NURSERY. 



Par. 78. It very much puzzled me to 

 account for the strange manner in which it 

 operated during the progress of the trees, for 

 the longer the trees remained on the ground 

 the more they seemed to get the disease. I 

 have often reflected with some anxiety, when 

 thinking of the thousands of fine young trees 



