they suck the sap, 
and literally over- 
flow with the bounty 
which they thus ab- 
sorb and convert into " honey- 
dew." 
We need not go very far in 
our country walk to discover 
our aphides encircling the 
stems of weed and shrub, and 
it is well the next time we 
encounter them to observe 
them more closely. They 
would indeed appear at first 
glance to be having things en- 
tirely their own way. Even 
here in my city back yard, 
for instance, upon my grow- 
ing chrysanthemums, as I sit at the back win- 
dows some twenty feet distant, I can distinctly 
see their brown, disfiguring masses completely 
inclosing the under tips of nearly all the 
branches. 
