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FRUIT CULTURE. 



Remedies. — The castings of tlie worm in 

 June usually adhere to the young apple at the 

 calyx. If all the diseased fruit could be picked 

 and destroyed before the worm leaves the fruit, 

 the remedy would be effectual. Gathering this 

 fruit after its premature fall is useless vigilance, 



aftei the rogue has left. Cloth bandages tied 

 around the trees early in June will serve as traps 

 where the cocoons will collect. These should 

 be examined two or three times in July and 

 August and the cocoons destroyed. Cleaning 

 the limbs and trunks of the trees and also the 

 fruit barrels and the fruit cellar, in early sj)ring, 

 may also destroy many cocoons. Fruit which 



