GALERUCID^ — TURNIP-FLY, ETC. t5 



Anatolius says that if the seeds of radishes, turnips, and 

 other esculents be sown in the hide of a tortoise, the plants 

 when grown will not be eaten by the fly, nor hurt by nox- 

 ious animals or birds. ^ Paladius has also related the method 

 of drying the seeds in the hide of this animal,^ and of sowing 

 them.^ 



1 Owen's Geoponika, ii. 98. 



2 Probably the coriaceous tortoise, wliich is covered with a sti 

 hide. 



3 Paladius, B. i. c. 35. 



