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troduced from Europe, but is steadily increasing as our or- 

 chards grow older, until we now have few perfect fruit. The 

 moth appears early in the summer to lay the eggs of the 

 first crop of worms. This insect is figured and described 

 by different authors, among whom Dr. Trimble, of IsTew 

 Jersey, has paid it especial attention in his recent work. 



The eggs are dropped singly upon the blossom end of 

 the apple, that affords an entrance to the young worm, 

 which passes to the core, about which it consumes the 

 pulp and the seeds. The worm is whitish, becoming flesh- 

 colored. In warm weather it attains its growth in three 

 or four weeks, and makes its exit by gnawing through the 

 side of the fruit. It instinctively seeks the stem of the 

 tree to secrete itself under the scales of bark, and this af- 

 fords us an opportunity to destroy it in the pupa, state, for 

 it will creep under, any shelter that may be put in its way. 



The REMEDIES will depend upon the habits of the in- 

 sect. The moth, being nocturnal, may be destroyed by 

 burning lamps or fires in the orchard during June, when 

 they are first at work ; cheap coal-oil may be used for the 

 purpose. The pupa3 can be entrapped in large numbers, 

 by putting a piece of old rag in the crotch of the tree, be- 

 neath which the worms will crawl to spin their cocoons, 

 when they may easily be destroyed. Dr. Trimble has 

 used a trap, made by twisting a hay rope and fastening it 

 about the trunk of the tree ; under the rope immense num- 

 bers will be found. This trap should be examined fort- 

 nightly, as the moths hatch out during hot weather in a 

 shorter tiine than later in the season, when some remain 

 over winter in the pupal state. 



All wormy fruit should be gathered as soon as it falls 



