NOTICES OF INSECTS HURTFUL IN GARDENS. 
mere extension of the branches, or for the support of a crop of fruit. 
It is for this special reason that the growth and crops of the trees 
I am describing, are always kept subordinate to the roots on which 
they depend. 
The manner of pruning the trees here is very different from the 
method pursued in the pinery. Each tree has either three or four of 
what may be called principal branches, which are led directly up to 
the top of the house. This length they have gained in former years ; 
and when they rise inconveniently high, they are cut back to the next 
promising branchlet below. These principal branches are not naked, 
but furnished with lateral branchlets, about fourteen inches apart from 
each other, all the way from bottom to top. These branchlets have 
been formed by the skill of the pruner in bygone years. They are the 
bearing parts of the tree, their points being every year extended by 
portions of bearing shoots ; and when they interfere, the knife makes 
an opening by preferring the shoots rising from below. 
This method of pruning, is not exactly what is called “spurring in;" 
it is rather what may be called long-spur pruning, as no particular 
length of shoot or number of buds at the base of it, are fixed on as a 
rule in pruning the trees. The size and appearance, together with the 
space it has to occupy, determines what should be done by the knife ; 
the number and lengths of the shoots left to bear, are always ap¬ 
portioned to the known ability of the tree, and so as to have an equal 
distribution of the fruit over the wdiole trellis. 
The summer management of these trees consists in stopping every 
shoot as soon as it shows two or three bunches of fruit, and at the joint 
beyond the uppermost bunch. All tendrils are also displaced, as well 
as every unnecessary shoot; the bunches are also carefully thinned. 
The vinery is never forced early ; and always very moderately. 
The trees are frequently and forcibly washed with the engine before 
they flower, and very frequently afterward, up to the time the fruit 
begins to change colour. Vv 7 ashing healthy vines, besides keeping them 
free from the red acarus, can never do harm, provided they have 
always heat and fresh air enough. Yours faithfully, A. B. 
ENTOMOLOGY. 
SHORT HISTORIES OF INSECTS HURTFUL IN GARDENS. 
That some knowledge of the insects which prey and breed on plants 
is necessary in gardening, no one will deny; and to be 'able to distin¬ 
guish those which are injurious from others that are really serviceable, 
