FOOTNOTES:
[21] Bursting open of the pods, or of the hulls of nuts.
[22] Balfour's Manual.
CHAPTER XIV.[ToC]
INSECTS.
When the preparation of this work was undertaken, the author desired to make it as perfect as possible in all its parts. He very soon discovered, from his own observations in the orchard, that one of the greatest difficulties we all have to contend against in fruit-growing, was the ravages committed upon our fruits and fruit-trees by hosts of noxious insects.