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maggot had time to change to the beetle state and escape, was found 
serviceable, in the case of espaliers in gardens, in clearing off attack 
for future benefit. 
In the orchards round Isleworth and Hounslow there was also 
much mischief done to the Apple buds by this maggot. 
The method of attack is for the female beetle to lay her eggs singly 
in the unopened blossom-buds of Apples, and sometimes of Pears, and 
here the maggot soon hatches, and feeds within them, thus soon killing 
the infested buds, which may be known by the petals or flower-leaves 
soon withering into a brown cap, instead of expanding. Under this 
shelter the maggot quickly goes through its changes, first to a chrysalis, 
then to a small long-snouted weevil of various shades of brown or 
greyish tint, with sloping hands on the wing-cases. In the following 
winter the weevils shelter under rough bark, clods of earth, or in any 
convenient nooks on or near the trees; and with the return of spring 
they come out again. The common measures of keeping hark in good 
order, clearing away rubbish, and attending to the condition of the 
stakes of espaliers and the proper pointing of walls, will all help to 
keep this pest in check in gardens. The males fly round the branches, 
but the females are stated rarely to fly, and the weevils fall when they 
are alarmed; therefore shaking or smartly jarring the branches of 
infested trees, and throwing a ring of fresh gas-lime, or placing a band 
of anything convenient soaked with tar round the stem of the tree, or 
using any other means by which the beetles may he prevented creep¬ 
ing hack up the tree to the branches, will be very serviceable. 
Winter Moth. ( "heimatobia brumata , Stephens. 
Cheimatobia brumata. 
Winter Moth. Male, winged ; female, with abortive wings. 
The caterpillars of the Winter Moth have been injurious in various 
localities during the past season. On June 9th they were mentioned 
as occurring in such great numbers at Bridley Manor, Guildford, as 
to be ruining the Apples in the nurseries. 
Mr. Edward Parfitt, writing from Exeter, mentions them as having 
been very numerous; and the exceedingly severe attack on the Oaks 
