The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . iswar—practical knowledge brought home toevery grower of even a single apple or asingle pear tree. Much has already beendone in certain quarters ; the science of the The Enemy. 99 Entomologist has been brought into requi-sition, and we have, as the result of his in-vestigations, much valuable knowledge, butit is generally of a kind but little adaptedto the wants of plain, practical farmers andfruit growers. We want information strippedof all technical terms and scientific phrase-ology. We want books which shall describethe various i
The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . iswar—practical knowledge brought home toevery grower of even a single apple or asingle pear tree. Much has already beendone in certain quarters ; the science of the The Enemy. 99 Entomologist has been brought into requi-sition, and we have, as the result of his in-vestigations, much valuable knowledge, butit is generally of a kind but little adaptedto the wants of plain, practical farmers andfruit growers. We want information strippedof all technical terms and scientific phrase-ology. We want books which shall describethe various insects to fruit and vegetationin such wise that they may be known andrecognized the moment they are seen; les-sons which will teach us to discriminatebetween friend and foe, to discern either ata glance, and to know their seasons, theirtransformations, their modus operandi andtheir whole life. Pictures colored true tonature to assist the learner, for no mereprint and description will suffice to identifythe insect to the unlearned ; he must have >^^f%f5. Fig. 47. an exact picture in form and color, for theinsect tribe is so numerous and various thatplain black drawings seem to produce onlya confusion in the minds of the ordinarystudent, and in despair he gives the subjectup as beyond his scope. This desideratum has lately been suppliedin part by Dr. T. P. Trimble, Entomologistto the State Agricultural Society of NewJersey. The work is entitled A Treatiseon the Insect Enemies of Fruit and FruitTrees, published by William Wood & Co.,New York. The part now in print treats of the Curculio and the Apple Moth, or asit is commonly called, the Apple author has done good service to thecause by this work; he seems to havelaid aside all pretensions or desire to appearas a book maker, but on the other hand tobe animated by an enthusiastic wish tocommunicate information in a simple,straightforward manner, ignoring all scien-tific phraseology, and teaching his lessonsin plain En
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