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OBSERVATIONS UPON 
From these eggs myriads of minute larvae (worms) 
hatched in time to begin feeding upon the very 
• young leaves and, in case of the cherry trees that 
started late last spring, they ate into and destroyed 
Pig. 1 .—The Fruit-tree Leaf-roller, Caccp.aa argi/rospi.'a Walk.: A, 
egg-patch from which the lavras have escaped; B, moth(originah) 
a large portion of the buds. Figure 2 is from a 
photograph of a cherry tree that was thus attacked, 
the few uninjured buds alone having put forth 
leaves. Later in the season new buds were formed 
and the trees put on full foliage, but bore no fruit. 
Aside from the apple trees and the cherry 
trees, this insect attacked the plum and honey 
locust, and the rose, currant, raspberry and goose- 
