TIIK (ANAIUAN Iir»i; riCfLTUKIST. 



look the cluiir; and after the reachn*^ of the Mumtes by the Secretary, 

 introduced to the members Mr. Crai^, Secretary of the Agricultiii:al 

 and Arts Association, of (Ontario, and Mr. J. B. Jones, delegate from 

 the Horticnltur.d Society of AVestern New York. The gentlemen 

 were most enthusiastically welcomed by the members, and addressed 

 the meeting in a few well-timed words of hearty interest in the object 

 <^)f our Ass<iciati/)n. 



Mr. ( 'lias. Arnold — our accredited delegate to the Winter meeting of 

 I he W. X. Y. Horticultural Society — read his Kej)ort of M'hat he heard 

 and saw on that* occasion. He stated that there was an aA'erage at- 

 tendance during the two days of the meeting, 2ord and 24th of Janu- 

 nvy, of about one hundred and forty intelligent fruit growers from all 

 parts of the State of New York, and .adjoining Stat<iS. The evening 

 session of the 23rd was largely taken up with a discussion upon the 

 ])est means of destroying the Codlin Motli, One gentleman spoke for 

 nearly two liours, advocating the merits of his patent invention for 

 catching the larviie of this Motk (Our cousins are highly gifted in the 

 talking line, and are an exceedingly inventive peopla) This invention 

 consisted of a piece of water-proof paper or pasteboard, lined with 

 cotton batting. This was to be placed, in the form of a band of about 

 three inches in width around the trunk of each tree, with the cotton 

 batting next to the tree, and occasionally taken off and the larva" found 

 therein destroyed. Another man had ai)plied for a patent for sul)stan- 

 tially the same thing, only in this case th« cardboard was punched full 

 of holes, and the cotton batting pressed into the holes. It was fully 

 a Imitted by all who took part in the discussion, that the Codlin Moth 

 \\as a very serious pe-st, and that every owner of a pear or apple tree 

 should wage a war of extermination against it. The larvie v»'ill take 

 lofuge under anything that gives them shelter and .security, hence 

 any contrivance that offer.s them a hiding place ivill be sought l)y 

 them, and can be used as a trap for catching and killing them. 



A A ery convenient trap has been made by fastening a stri]) of old 

 carpeting or of c()tton flannel around the trunk o' tlie tree, and re- 

 juoving it every week or ten days and passing it through an old clothe.s- 

 •\vringer, so as to crush the larvte that have taken refuge in it, and tlien 

 putting it back around the tree. Those who desire to ini'orm themselves 

 more fully on the subject of the Codlin Moth, will find nmch valuable 

 infoi-mation in the entomological part of the Report for 1870, page 91; 



