100 Mr. W. Sponce's Observations, Sfc. 



with a numerous brood of very young Aphides, which subse- 

 quently I saw had transferred themselves to the leaves when they 

 appeared. 



I throw out these hasty ideas just as they suggest themselves, 

 without at all considering them as leading to any conclusive result, 

 which can only be obtained by far more extensive and minute in- 

 quiries than I have had an opportunity of making, and especially 

 by observations began on the spot from the earliest commence- 

 ment of the mischief, the communication of which I conceive 

 might be obtained in the way already suggested, and which may 

 very probably show that other causes have been concerned. It is 

 very probable that this subject has already received the attention 

 of the Society, but it so often happens that one errs by taking 

 matters of this sort for granted, that I thought it best to run the 

 risk of making a superfluous suggestion. Every thing connected 

 with cider becomes now of additional interest, if what has been 

 lately stated in a Devonshire paper in bewailing the failure of their 

 apple crop be correct, that there is now a considerable and in- 

 creasing export of it to Turkey, those good casuists, the Mussul- 

 mans, having found out that, not being wine, it cannot come under 

 their prophet's prohibition. 



Hops, in Worcestershire, are as complete a failure as apples. 

 In addition to the hosts of Aphides, a Haltica has riddled the 

 leaves like network. 



