This is the insect that gives us wormy apples. It is the greatest foe of the apple grower. Professor Cook, of Lansing, says the method of placing bandages round the stems to allure the " worms " to take shelter while they undergo transformation, " signally failed," because he could not find any one " right in the busy season " to kill the creatures in the bandages at intervals of ten or fifteen days. He prefers hogs in the orchard to eat the wormy apples; helping the wormy apples to fall with a forked stick. The better protection is, he finds, in spraying with London purple. It is dangerous after May or June, and only when the fruit is of the size of a small pea. It destroys other noxious insects as well. After six years practice he says :

" The danger from this practice I have proved to be nothing at all. The microscope and chemical analysis have both shown that all the poison has been removed long before we wish to eat the fruit. The wind no less than the rain helps to effect this removal, as I have shown by putting the poison on plants sheltered from all rains. Of course we should not turn stock into an orchard till a heavy rain has washed the poison from all herbage under the trees.

" I am entirely positive that a knowledge and practice of this remedy throughout our country will save hundreds of thousands of dollars to our fruit growers. It will serve to give us the fair, perfect apples known to our fathers, but which have become lamentably scarce in our modern orchards".

Destruction of the Cabbage Worm - The Gardeners' Monthly has always contended that very much may be done by the hand in the destruction of insects, to much better advantage in many cases, than by the numerous remedies that aim to destroy them all at one fell swoop. We have come to understand this very well in regard to the Plum curculio, which we now shake off; and the bag worm, which a boy gathers from the evergreens, and does for. We are therefore prepared to admire the following which we find in the correspondence of the American Garden :

" But the true method for disposing of this cabbage destructive is to catch the butterflies with a net attached to a wire hoop two feet in diameter, with a stale six or seven feet long. With such an instrument a boy eight or ten years old can protect a field of an acre or more. The catching them must be general, and operations must begin with the appearance of the butterflies in the spring, which cuts off the ancestry for the large progeny in July and August. Growers can afford to employ boys for the purpose and then the crop is sure to be of merchantable condition and quality".