266 A TREATISE OF 



themfelves, either in a bunch of leaves, or 

 in a cavity of the rind of a tree, where 

 i^hany of their eggs are hatched the fame 

 fummer, and become very deftruftive. I 

 think fome eggs are preferved the fame vv^ay 

 all winter ; for when I have been drefTing 

 fruit-trees in February, I have found many 

 of then* eggs, and fome kindled, though of 

 a white colour, as I fuppofe they all are, 

 before the air changes them, in old nail 

 holes and under pieces of dead bark. 



Which caufes me to wafh the walls, in 

 order to deftroy them ; and I think the 

 method of dreffing dwarfs and ftand- 

 ard-trees muft have partly the fame ef- 

 feft. 



The green caterpillar that feeds upon 

 fruit-trees, for ought I know, may be the 

 fame as thofe that were black at their firfl 

 appearance, but by green food their co- 

 lour may be changed, for the latter I have 

 never feen fo early in the fpring as the for- 

 mer ; but I have found them very preju- 

 dicial to both the young branches and 

 fruit of the apricot, cherry, plum, apple, 

 pear, currant, goofeberry, &c. 



