. St. Nicholas [serial]. SPROUTING APPLE IN THE ORCHARD. were walking in our garden. Will you please explainit to me? Is it the beginning of an apple-tree?Yours truly, Sidney Kingman Eastwood. My young friend has quite rightly describedthis as a queer tiling. My first thought,upon unpacking it from the box in which itwas sent, was of a ball of wrinkled, moldyleather covered with a few leaves. A littleexamination showed that it was the beginningsof tiny apple-trees from the seeds in a shriv-eled apple. It is shown in the foreground ofthe accompanying illustration. The specimen you send is a woo
. St. Nicholas [serial]. SPROUTING APPLE IN THE ORCHARD. were walking in our garden. Will you please explainit to me? Is it the beginning of an apple-tree?Yours truly, Sidney Kingman Eastwood. My young friend has quite rightly describedthis as a queer tiling. My first thought,upon unpacking it from the box in which itwas sent, was of a ball of wrinkled, moldyleather covered with a few leaves. A littleexamination showed that it was the beginningsof tiny apple-trees from the seeds in a shriv-eled apple. It is shown in the foreground ofthe accompanying illustration. The specimen you send is a woolly oak-gall,a very common gall on oak-trees. Some galls,even the large ones, are made by a single gall-insect ; and others, not much different in ap-pearance, are composed of a cluster of tinygall-cases, as shown in the Till WO. IAlv NATURE AND CLUSTER OF TINY GALLS. SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. 269 Philadelphia, St. Nicholas: I send on to-day by mail acuriosity which was given to us by a little girl who hadcollected it. As will be seen, it has the appearance of aball of wool with what look like seeds inside. Onopening these seeds we found in each a small flywhich to-day was alive and able to walk and fly. Iwould like to know the name of this fly, whether itmade this ball or adapted it from some plant, and, ifso, whether it is confined to this species of plant sincerely, H. W. Hark Powel, Jr. When I opened your box, about fiftytiny gall-flies flew out. In fact, there wassoon a small swarm over my desk, someflying aimlessly about, others alighting onvarious things. Two, alas! were drownedin the ink in the uncovered stand. Abouta dozen crawled out of the ball on myhands. So you see I had enough and tospare; but I saved a few, with the nests,from which our artist made the illustrat
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