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destruction of the insects in their caterpillar state, our 

 eftbrts must chiefly be directed. A few minutes, daily- 

 given to an examination of the vines in June and in Au- 

 gust, will enable us to detect them; and, by a single grasp 

 of the hand, an entire brood may be crushed upon one leaf. 

 Any fluid, offensive to insects, such as soap-suds or a solu- 

 tion of oil-soap, thrown forcibly beneath the leaves with a 

 syringe, will dislodge the caterpillars; and, even if they 

 be not killed by this means, they will find it difficult to 

 mount again upon the vines. 



T. W. H. 

 Cambridge, May, 1844. 



Art. II. Pomologlcal Notices ; or notices respecting neio 

 and superior varieties of fruits worthy of general odtiva- 

 tion. Notices of several new Apples and Pears. By the 

 Editor. 



Our last miscellaneous notice of new fruit appeared in 

 1842, (Vol. VIII. p. 249,) in which article, and a previous 

 one, in the same volume, (p. 101,) we gave some account 

 of a variety of new pears, grapes, strawberries, &c. In 

 continuation of this subject, we now offer some account of 

 several new varieties of apples and pears which have been 

 recently brought into notice among our own cultivators. 



Apples. — The excellence of several native varieties of 

 Western apples, which have been exhibited before the Mass. 

 Horticultural Society, by Mr. Ernst, a corresponding mem- 

 ber, of Cincinnati, and notices of which have appeared in 

 our last volume from him, — has created quite a desire, 

 among amateur cultivators, to become more acquainted with 

 Western fruits. The apple, in the valley of the Ohio, seems 

 to attain to a great state of perfection ; and Eastern fruits, 

 when cultivated there, are so much larger and fairer, that 

 they would scarcely be recognized as the same varieties. 

 With so fine a climate and the production of great numbers 

 of seedlings, it is quite possible that many of them will 

 prove new and very superior kinds. The early settlers of 

 Ohio — then without any of the facilities of communication 



