Penjyhania, Philadelphia. iyy 



was very peculiar that every pea in the 

 paper was eaten without exception. 



When the inhabitants of Penjyhania 

 fow peafe procured from abroad, they are 

 not commonly attacked by thefe infects 

 for the nrft year; but in the next they take 

 poffeffion of the pea. It is greatly to be 

 wifhed that none of the mips which annu- 

 ally depart from New York or Penjyhania, 

 may bring them into the European coun- 

 tries. From hence the power of a fingle 

 defpicable in feci: will plainly appear; as 

 alfo, that the fludy of the ccconomy and of 

 the qualities of infecls, is not to be looked 

 upon as a merepaftime and ufelefs employ- 

 ment.* 



The Rhus radicans is a fhrub or tree 

 which grows abundantly in this country, 

 and has in common with the ivy, called He- 

 dera arborea, the quality of not growing 

 without the fupport either of a tree, a 

 wall, or a hedge. I have feen it climb- 

 ing to the very top of high trees in the 



M woods, 



this bird has been profcribed by the legiflature of Penfylwa- 

 tiia, Nenv Jerfey, and New England as a maize-thief, they 

 feel however the imprudence of extirpating this bird ; for a 

 quantity of worms which formerly were eaten by thefe birds 

 deftroy their meadows at prefent. F. 



* If the peafe were fteeped before they are fown, in a lie 

 of lime water and fome diflblved arfenic, the pupa or aurelia 

 of the infedt would be killed. F. 



