Prime facts for the farmer, the fruit grower, and the public : furnished by John Forman, Esq., farmer and nurseryman, Western New-York . grow richly innearly almost all parts of our country, and great pains havebeen taken to bring the fruit to some good degree of perfec-tion, but for the most part the success has been very limited. For the last forty or fifty years, the tree, in the old settledparts of the Union, especially, has encountered almost insu-perable difficulties, and these have really discouraged thous-ands even from attempting to cultivate the fruit. The mostformidable of these evi
Prime facts for the farmer, the fruit grower, and the public : furnished by John Forman, Esq., farmer and nurseryman, Western New-York . grow richly innearly almost all parts of our country, and great pains havebeen taken to bring the fruit to some good degree of perfec-tion, but for the most part the success has been very limited. For the last forty or fifty years, the tree, in the old settledparts of the Union, especially, has encountered almost insu-perable difficulties, and these have really discouraged thous-ands even from attempting to cultivate the fruit. The mostformidable of these evils is a species of Black Rot whichinvariably induces premature decay. From this cause thefruit has not only been poor in point of quality, but the sup-ply has been scanty and uncertain. One special design of this little work, is to trace out thecause of this Black Rot, or Black Bunch, as it is called,—the foundation of the Decay, and thus provide a remedy bywhich the rot, and the evils resulting from it, may be avoid- FACT NUMBER TWO. 31 ?d, and that too, without the loss of the tree, or even anjntire suspension of its A BRANCH OF THE DISEASED PLUM TREE. The cause of the premature decay of this tree, is an in-sect, called the Plum Tree Louse ; for,: strange as the factmay appear, trees have Lice as well as man and beast. Thisinsect makes its appearance about the time the tree beginsto bloom, and it then has the form of a small, green mite. 32 FACT NUMBER TWO. lodged, by myriads, on the under side of the leaves andabout the blossoms. But in due time, this green mite be-comes a winged insect, and passes from one branch of thetree to another. It visits the fruit after it has become fairlyformed: feeds on the tender skin, and not only stints thegrowth of the plum, but mars its beauty and vitiates its quali-ty. The leaves and the fruit thus wounded by the louseand the fly, or the winged louse, as it is called, shrivel up,turn yellowish, and generally drop off at an early p
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