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CHERRY. LEAVES. 
directly downward and not sway oft' to one side. This curious 
specimen may be seen in the Entomological department of the 
Museum of the State Agricultural Society. 
AFFECTING THE FRUIT. 
The Plum weevil or Curculio, No. 70, a small white worm 
occasionally found in the interior of cherries, is the only insect 
known to us as infesting this fruit. 
9. THE GRAPE. — Vitis vinifera , et al. 
AFFECTING the root. 
95. Grape vine borer, 7Vochilium Polistiformis, Harris. (Lepidoptcra 
Trochiliidae.) 
A worm resembling the Peach tree borer, No. 59, in its size 
and habits, producing a moth resembling a wasp, of a dark brown 
color marked with orange or tawny yellow, and with a bright 
yellow band on the base of the second ring of its abdomen, its 
fore wings dusky, hind ones glassy hyaline with the margins and 
veins black. Width 1.00 to 1.50. Found by Dr. Kron, in North 
Carolina, where it is exceedingly destructive to both wild and 
cultivated grapes. See Patent Office Report, 1854, p. 80. 
AFFECTING THE STALK. 
96* Vine scale insect, Lecanium Vitis, Linn. (Homoptera. Coccidse.) 
Appearing on the bark in June, a brown hemispherical scale 
from under one end of which a white cotton-like substance pro¬ 
trudes, more and more, till about the first of July, it becomes 
four times as large as the scale, and from among it minute oval 
yellowish-white lice, the hundredth of an inch in length, creep 
out and distribute themselves over the bark, to which they 
fix themselves and become stationary, sucking its juices. This 
appears from the short descriptions given by authors, and from 
