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 2. Injuries to our living vegetable property — continued. 



To Flower Garden - - - - - 108 



Stove and Greenhouse - - - - - 109 



Orchard and Fruitery - - - _ . 109 — 116 



Raspberries - - - - - - -109 



Gooseberries and Currants - - - - -110 



Cherries - - ' - - - - - 110 



Plums - - - - - - - 111 



Pears - - - - - - - 111 



Apples - - - - - - -111 



Peaches and Nectarines - - - - - 1 1 3 



Olives - - - - - - - 114 



Chestnuts and Dates - - - - - -114 



Pomegranates and Oranges - - - - -114 



Grapes - - - - - - -115 



Fruit trees generally - - - - - -116 



Plantations and Groves - - - - -117 



By Beetles - - - - - - - 117 



Caterpillars - - - - - -117 



Aphides (honey-dew) - - - • - 119 



Insects attacking the interior of trees • - - 120 



Insects attacking their bark and alburnum - - 121 



LETTER VII. 



Indirect Ikjuries — continued ----- 125 — 131 



The ravages of Locusts ----- 125 — 131 



LETTER VIIL 



Indirect Injuries — concluded ----- 132 — 143 



S. Injuries to our dead property, whether animal or vegetable - 132 — 143 



To our Food - - - - - - - 132 



Drugs ------- 135 



Clothes - - - - - - - 135 



Houses and Furniture ----- 136 



Timber - - - - - - - 137 



Books, Pictures, &c, - - - - - 138 



Dead Stock generally - - - - - 139 



LETTER IX. 



Indirect Benefits derived from Insects _ - _ 144 — 170 



By maintaining a due balance between vegetable and animal pro- 

 ductions - - - - - - - -145 



removin_g nuisances and deformities - - - - - 146 



destroying noxious Insects - - - - - -150 



serving as food for other animals ----- 160 



promoting the fertilisation of plants ----- 167 



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