. The American fruit culturist : containing directions for the propagation and culture of fruit trees in the nursery, orchid and garden : with descriptions of the principal American and foreign varieties cultivated in the United States . Fruit-culture. 128 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO AFPLES. "Apples for shipping have sometimes been packed in char- coal dust, dry sand,—and at other times separately wrapped in paper, in the same manner as oranges are shipped,—but they can be shipped with as much success without anything with them, if only managed with care in other respects. " In shipping fru
. The American fruit culturist : containing directions for the propagation and culture of fruit trees in the nursery, orchid and garden : with descriptions of the principal American and foreign varieties cultivated in the United States . Fruit-culture. 128 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO AFPLES. "Apples for shipping have sometimes been packed in char- coal dust, dry sand,—and at other times separately wrapped in paper, in the same manner as oranges are shipped,—but they can be shipped with as much success without anything with them, if only managed with care in other respects. " In shipping fruit, none but the very best should be sent; all that are small, imperfect, or the least bruised, should be rejected. Those persons who pay from nine to twenty-one dollars per barrel for apples, expect to have the best.*" DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS. 7he Caterpillar, (Clisiocampa Americana.) This has been a most serious enemy to the apple in most parts of the country. It has its seasons of increase and decrease. Some years it has nearly stripped whole orchards; and again it has diminished in numbers in successive years, till few could be found. There are many species which feed on the apple leaf; but the only one of importance, is that known as the com- mon orchard caterpillar, which is hatched in spring as soon as the leaf buds begin to open. At this time, it is not the tenth of an inch long, nor so large as a cambric needle, but it continues to increase constantly in size for several weeks, until two inches long and a quarter of an inch in diameter. It then spins a cocoon and passes to the pupa state. In the latter part of summer, it comes out a yellowish brown miller, lays its eggs and dies. The eggs are deposited in cylinders or rings, containing three to five hundred each, encircling the smaller branches, and usually within a few inches of the ex- tremity. The accompanying figure (fig. 104,) represents one of these masses of eggs of the natural size. They remain through win
Size: 980px × 2550px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1850, bookpub, booksubjectfruitculture
