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is the sjDaiTow who is always with us, and who in 

 cold, dry winters and springs loves to nibble the 

 plants as they begin to put forth growth. A few 

 lines of thread run crosswise above the plants mil 

 effectually keep him off. Where the plants have 

 been so nibbled, the worst that happens seems to 

 be that they bloom rather later than they would 

 otherwise have done, but they are sorely disfigured 

 for the time, and it is well, in any case, that the 

 enemy should be scared off. 



Suburban gardens are commonly the un- 

 disturbed and happy hunting grounds of every 

 enemy to the flowers. Constant exercise of clean- 

 liness and the burning of dead leaves, and all 

 refuse and decayed matter, thereby destroying our 

 foes ah ovo, is the way the war must be carried 

 on against them. 



