The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . mple finger-post to warn off from thewrong way, (or to tell what not to do,)rather than a correct guide-board to showthe true way,—would be more incompletewithout the addition of the following briefdescription of the enemy, and some ofhis antecedents and surroundings. We may find the first indication of thedreaded presence of the canker worm quiteearly in the fall, when forking up the soilunder our fruit trees, for their dressing ofmanure or mulch. It is then made visible in the shape of a light brown chrysalis.(Fig. No. 85.) By the
The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . mple finger-post to warn off from thewrong way, (or to tell what not to do,)rather than a correct guide-board to showthe true way,—would be more incompletewithout the addition of the following briefdescription of the enemy, and some ofhis antecedents and surroundings. We may find the first indication of thedreaded presence of the canker worm quiteearly in the fall, when forking up the soilunder our fruit trees, for their dressing ofmanure or mulch. It is then made visible in the shape of a light brown chrysalis.(Fig. No. 85.) By the way, these are readily Fig. 85.—Cnjsalis. devoured by poultry, and I judge from myexperience, last fall, that if I had but halfa dozen choice trees to protect, I could doit quite effectually by carefully exposingthe soil, (from three to four inches in depth)and breaking it up so that my hens couldget at the chrysalides, and thus make awaywith them in their embryo state. Its next appearance is in the form of themale miller, (Fig. No. 8G,) and the female. 8G.—iliftZe Moth. grub. The male, with the aid of its wing?,can, of course, fly from the ground to anypart of the tree ; but the female is obligedto crawl up the trunk ; and it is to preventher ascent that the main eflbrts of the Fig. 87 Female Moth. fruit-grower are to be directed; to entrapand destroy the vermin in this stage of itsprogress, if not previously destroyed whilein its chrysalid condition. The precisetime of its appearance may vary with thecharacter of the season; its first occurrencelast year was on the evening of March 15th,and its second, October 28th.
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