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KRUIT CULTURE. 



FLAT HEADBD BORER. 



a. Larva; b. Chrysa- 

 lis ; 1-. Portion of body ; 

 d. Perfect insect. 



Flat Headed Apple Tree Borer. This beetle is of a greenish- 

 black color, with brassy lines above, and shines 

 like burnished copper below. It is about one 

 inch in length, but the worm (larvae) which does 

 all the damage, is much smaller. The grub, 

 which has a very broad, flat head, also attacks 

 the pear, plum, and peach, as well as the apple. 

 As a preventive use the soft-.soap treatment rec- 

 ommeded for the "Woolly I^oase." As it is 

 often found on the larger limbs, the soft-soap 

 should not be confined to the trunk, but should 

 extend to the larger limbs. 



Round Headed Apple Tree Borer. The 

 mature insect is nearly one inch long, and has two 

 stripes running lengthwise of its body, separating 

 three of a cinnamon-brown color. The insect flies only at night, hence 

 is seldom seen. It makes its appearance in May, and lays its eggs in 

 June, nearly at the foot of the tree, and the young worms soon bore into 

 the bark. 



To remove and destroy 

 this pest of the orchards; 

 just before \-eg^ctation 

 starts in the spring level 

 the ground, and pack it 

 firmly around the root of 

 the tree, in a circle of 

 about two feet in diame- 



Larva. Chrysalis. Beetle. ter, according tO the size 



ROUND HEADED APPLE TREE BORER. of the tree. Take un- 



leached ashes and dr-slacked lime in equal parts, well mixed, and applj^ 

 to the circle thus made, covering the ground all over two or three inches 

 in depth. Then take strong soap suds, or, what is better, a solution of 

 half a pound of sal-soda to one gallon of water, mixed with soft-soap, 

 and paint the entire trunk and base of the limbs thoroughly with this 

 mixture. Repeat this operation in the fall of the year, just before freez- 

 ing weather, covering the ground with the mixture of ashes and lime, 

 and washing the trunk and the base of the branches with the solution as 

 above. If the borers have already made an entrance into the tree, 

 the only way to get rid of them is to dig them out by the use of a fine, 



