BLIGHT. 



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GOOSEBERRY-GRUBS OF THE NATURAL SIZE. 



CHAPTER IV. 



IT was immediately after my return from the Isle of 

 Wight, that I ' revised/ as the book people say, a lot of 

 mems, made at divers times, about those insects that are 

 universally, but as I think ignorantly, known by the name 

 of ( blight : ' and here they are. 



Blight is a term generally misunderstood; especially 

 among those whom it more particularly concerns. The 

 knowing horticulturist will tell you, " There is blight in the 

 air to-day : " and in a few days or weeks, he will see the 

 web of the lackey, or the yellow-tail, or the ermine, on his 

 white-thorn hedge-rows ; or the caterpillars of the death's 

 head hawk-moth on his potatoes ; or those of butterflies on 



