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Perhaps they are identical with the apricot-bud caterpillars 
( Ditula angustiorana) of Europe, the depredations of which 
have been described by Mr. Westwood in the fourteenth 
volume of the “ Gardener’s Magazine.” Besides picking 
off the curled and confined clusters of leaves, when practi- 
cable, I would recommend thoroughly drenching the trees 
with Mr. Haggerston’s remedy, a pound of oil-soap in from 
seven to ten gallons of water, in the hope that some of the 
mixture might penetrate the injured buds and leaves, and 
destroy the caterpillars concealed therein. A mixture of 
one gallon of the liquor expressed by tobacconists from 
tobacco, with five gallons of water, has been used to the 
same intent. 
Iioses are infested with several kinds of caterpillars 
belonging to this tribe. Mr. Westwood has described one 
of them, and mentions others that are found in Europe, 
in the thirteenth volume of the “ Gardener’s Magazine.” 
Similar species are not uncommon in this country. Some 
of these spoilers fasten upon the leaves, and roll them up, 
or stick them together, to serve them for food and shelter ; 
while others lurk unseen in the flower-buds, and canker 
them to the heart, before they can spread their lovely 
petals to the sun, and breathe out their fragrance to the 
air. A particular description of each of these insects would 
occupy too much space here ; and I can only add, that the 
worm in the hud is to be destroyed only by hand. 
Pine and fir trees are also injured by some of the Tor- 
trices, that pierce the tender shoots and terminal buds. 
The seat of their depredations becomes known by the 
oozing of the resin and by the withering of the bud or 
shoot. The latter commonly dies in consequence of the 
injury, the upward growth is checked, and the stem out- 
puts forth side shoots the following year. Some one of 
these side shoots, in time, takes the place of the leading 
shoot, and thus gives to the trunk an irregular and crooked 
appearance, and renders it unfit for timber. The history 
