. Canadian fruit, flower, and kitchen gardener [microform] : a guide in all matters relating to the cultivation of fruits, flowers and vegetables and their value for cultivation in this climate. Gardening; Flower gardening; Fruit-culture; Jardinage; Floriculture; Horticulture fruitière. 38 Fio. 28. on the peach. Tho ^v^itor cannot romembor over having seen thorn upon tho pear. TUK TWO-STRIPED Sapcrda hivittata. This beetle is very destructive to young apple trees, and sometimes attacks tho pear and quince. It does its work so silently, and removed from observation, that fine orchards
. Canadian fruit, flower, and kitchen gardener [microform] : a guide in all matters relating to the cultivation of fruits, flowers and vegetables and their value for cultivation in this climate. Gardening; Flower gardening; Fruit-culture; Jardinage; Floriculture; Horticulture fruitière. 38 Fio. 28. on the peach. Tho ^v^itor cannot romembor over having seen thorn upon tho pear. TUK TWO-STRIPED Sapcrda hivittata. This beetle is very destructive to young apple trees, and sometimes attacks tho pear and quince. It does its work so silently, and removed from observation, that fine orchards have been entirely ruined before suspicion was entertained that any danger threatened. Fig. 28 represents the beetle or perfect insect and tho grub from which it is produced, or the same insect in the larva state. The perfect insect is light brown on the upper side, marked Avith two clialky-whito stripes, running lengthwise of tho body ; the under side, the face, tho antenna;, and tho legs are white. It is usually about three quarters of an inch long, moving about at night and remaining concealed by day. During tho months of June and July tho females deposit their eggs upon the bark of the tree, near tho root, at that part knoAvn as tho collar of tho tree. Here the bark is softer than at any other place on the trunk. From tho eggs arc hatched little fleshy whitish grubs without feet, which cut through the bark, and, on reaching the sajj-wood, excavate a round, smooth cavity, about the sizG of a silver dollar, immediately under tho bark. At the bottom of this cavity it makes a hole, out of which it casts its excrements, which appear lilco very fine sawdust. At tliis stage of its existence its presence can be readily ascertained by searching for this dust on the ground, just around the tnmk of tho tree. When tho larva has become about half grown it ceases to cast the dust out of this hole, but proceeds to fill up the cavity it had made, at the same time boring a passage or gall
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