MOTHS AS DESTRUCTIVES. 



" Now busily convened upon the bud 

 That crowns the genial branch, they feast sublime, 

 A ml spread their muslin canopy around, 

 Pavilioned richer than the proudest kings." 



THE grand army of Moth-destructives is now in all the 

 activity of a spring campaign. According to their local distri- 

 bution, these may be considered as attacking us under four 

 principal divisions, each subdivided into numerous companies 

 One of them is employed on what we may call the out-works, 

 our fields and forest-trees ; a second, coining nearer, spoliates 

 and levies contributions on our gardens ; a third, more daring, 

 invades our granaries ; while a fourth, boldest of all, attacks 



