1872 The Western Pomologist and Gardener. 



POMOLOGIST AND GARDENER— 1872 



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,|_; ilT will be seen tlmt in sliirting out witli the new volume we liivve ailnpted the same 

 •iliiiS* ^^y''* "'' P"aC as our cotempornries, the JIoyficiiUiin'M and the Americiin Jimrtud of 

 Ilortknlturn. Dispensing with the use of column ami dash rules economizes space for 

 actual reading matter. This change in stylo ol page permits of a slight reduction in 

 size, thereby saving fifty per cent in cost of presswork, without anj' material abridg- 

 ment in amount of reading matter. With this slight change the press upon which our 

 work is done will take on a form of sixteen pages, instead of a much less number as 

 heretofore. It should also be observed that pulilication day is the fifteenth of the 

 month instead of the first. 



J^3DVEI2,TISDE3VnEIsrTS. 

 We are gnitified to know, as our coUunus fully attest, that the Pomologist and 

 Gardbnek is being duly appreciated as an advertising medium. On the relative 

 value of daily, weekly and monthly jiapers for advertising, Geo. P. Rowell & Co., one 

 of the oldest and most popular advertising agencies in the United States, say : 



'fill- less frequently a publication is Lssued, the more thoroughly it is likelj' to be 

 read. A daily paper is glanced at ov kept before its reader for aii hour or two, and 

 when a day old is generally considered valueless. A weekly pa|)er is kept about the 

 house mueir longer, is more generally read by all the members of the family, is more 

 relinbh' and much more generally preserved as a record of passing events, or for the 

 stories, etc., which it contains. 



Monthlies are gen<'rally |irinted in the firm ot books, and are more valued on that 

 account. A monthly is rarely torn or thrown away, while a considerable proportion 

 of their subscribers preserve anil bind, making for them a jilace in the library, where 

 tliey are often kept for year<. 



By ths Entomological Editor, 



The American Lackey moth is the parent of the common American Tent-caterpillar, 

 (clisiocampa Americana.) During the last days of June and the first days of July, this 

 moth deposits her eggs on the small twigs of the trees in the manner represented at C. 

 in oblong bands containing an average of about two hundred and fifty eggs to 

 the band, or ring. After the laying of the eggs has been completed they are, by the 

 parent, secitrely covered over with a brown varnish, in which condition they remain 

 securely protected during the remainder of the summer, fall and winter. The warm days 

 of autumn, no matter how long they may continue, do not affect them, the cold of winter 

 alike leaves them unharmed. Each individual egg is similar in sfiape to the hen's egg, 

 though very minute, being only about one-twentieth of an inch in lengh. In these minute 

 eggs the young caterpillars lay bent double, the middle of the caterpillar being at the small 

 e nd of the egg. 



The genial warm days of spring which brings frondescense to the apple tree Latches 

 these eggs, and the young caterpillars are born in the midst of an abundance of food. 

 Sometimes, as was the case in 1870, on account of a late spring freeze, the young leaves 

 are seared by frost, and for a time their rations are cut off; against this emergency 

 they, however, appear to be by nature fortified, as they are capable of enduring much cold 

 and live a long time without food — as long as ten or twelve days. 



As soon as hatched, the C. Americana Lanm commence constructing for themselves a 

 silken home. This they do at the fork of limbs, the angle of which, to* some extent pat- 



