MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, &6. sV 

 Of Earwigs. 



Earwigs are very deftructive to fruit, particularly Peaches, 

 The method that I would recommend for deftroyins: them, 

 and which 1 have long purfued with fuccefs, is as follows. 



Take old bean- ftalks, cut them about nine inches long, tie 

 them up, in fmall bundles, with fome pack-thread, or with 

 fmall yellow willows ; and hang them on nails againft the 

 wall, at different parts of the trees. The fir if thing you do in 

 the morning, being provided with a board about eighteen 

 inches fquare, and a fmall wooden trowel, take down the 

 bundles of bean-ftalks, one by one, ftrike them againft the 

 board, and with your trowel kill the earwigs as they fall out 

 of the ftalks. If you follow this up every morning (or every 

 Other morning), you will be able to keep them under. 



The foregoing method will anfwer for any fort of trees 

 infefted with earwigs. In fome years I have feen a great part 

 of the fruit, efpecially the fmooth-fkinned forts, deftroyed by 

 thefe infects and a fmall green caterpillar ; and in a fcarce 

 year of fruit, the leaves of Peaches are frequently deftroyed by 

 them. 



The ill reds taken from trees that have been unnailed in 

 Autumn, fhould be foaked in boiling-hot foap-fuds for three 

 or four days, previous to their being ufed again ; this will 

 kill the eggs of earwigs and other infects that may be depo- 

 fited on them. 



Of the Ant. 



The Ant is very deftructive to fruit, efpecially the Peach 

 when ripe ; you will frequently fee thefe infects travelling 



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