170 THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURrST. 



Is everything to be for the mouth and nothing for the eye ? Is the- 

 body to liave all, and the mind to starve ? Was it not a wise hand 

 that gave the purple bloom to the grape, and the blush to the apple ? 

 Might not the sun have given us as much comfort, and yet never have 

 tinted the western sky with glorious hues ? AikI who will say that 

 these things are not beyond money value ? So also will it be with the 

 home and its surroundings ; and while we cultiA^ate our gardens and 

 fruit farms for profit, why shall we not mingle the beautiful with the. 

 useful, and so cultivate a refinement of taste that shall be a' source of 

 pleasure through life ? 



The Apple Tree Pruner. — This beetle, whose technical name 

 appears to be Stenocerus Putator(Peck,) is becoming almost too friendly 

 a visitor among our orchards. Twelve years ago, at a meetin g of the 

 Fruit Growers' Association, at St. Catharines, the first specimen noticed 

 in Canada was exhibited by Mr. Arnold, of Paris, as may be seen by 

 consulting the Fruit Growers' Eeport for 1870^ p. 75. If its pruning 

 were done- with an eye to the symmetry of the tree we would not 

 object to its increase, but when we find it only consults its own con- 

 venience, and prunes off limbs that are loaded with fruit, we' decidedly 

 place it among the enemies of the fruit grower. The larva is but little 

 more than half an inch in length,, and has six small legs. Its jaws 

 are peculiarly fitted for boring in hard wood, which it does with 

 wonderful neatness aiKl precision. The infant grub first uses its jaws 

 in boring through the soft young wood of the twig in which it hatches, 

 but soon finds its way to the heart of the larger branch. Before trans- 

 forming to the pupal state it cuts the branch in which it lives nearly 

 off, but cunningly leaves a few threads tha,t it may creep safely intO' 

 its burrow before the fall to the ground. The winged beetle appears 

 in the month of June, and belongs to the Oeramhyeidw, or family of 

 long-horned beetles, so named from their long recurved antennae, which 

 are very prominent. 



We add the following account of its habits, taken from the report 

 above mentioned. "The parent beetle, with a view to provide soft and 

 easily masticated food for the tender jaws of the infant grub, lays its 

 eggs in the green fresh growth of a twig proceeding from a moderate 

 sized limb. The young worm, immediately upon its exit from the egg, 

 "burrows down into the centre of the twig, and consumes all the soft 

 pulpy ^matter of which it is composed. By the time it reaches the 



