November 26, 1900.
Many thanks to you for Mr. Bathurst’s paper on “Orchards;”[[92]] there is some excellent advice in it, particularly about sawing beneath the limb, trimming smooth, and not planting deep. But I think that as the piece of cloth to be tied round the tree is to “act as a trap,” a little addition is needed (see my “Insects Injurious to Orchard and Bush Fruit,” pp. 12, 13), viz., that the trap should be examined and the caterpillars cleared out every few days, or say every fortnight. If this be not done the sacking is very likely to make a nice little house for them. Please excuse my giving my views thus vigorously, and uncalled for.
Yours very truly,
Eleanor A. Ormerod.
CHAPTER XXIII
LETTERS TO PROFESSOR ROBERT WALLACE BEFORE 1900
Washing Wheat—Text-book on Insects—Grease-banding Trees—Steven Lecturer on Agricultural Entomology—Australian agriculture—Examiner in Agricultural Entomology—Insect cases presented to the University—Death of Miss G. E. Ormerod.
The four remaining chapters, consisting chiefly of letters addressed to the editor, are of a more general, less technical nature than those that go before. They deal more with University and personal matters, and with efforts being made to advance the cause of Economic Entomology than with the structural details and habits of insects.
To Professor Robert Wallace, University of Edinburgh.
Torrington House, St. Albans,