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been seen in some parts of New Hampshire in small numbers, 

 and occasionally may be seen on the grape-vine when in flower. 

 Their visits are often quite sudden and informal. Harris, in 

 his work entitled " Insects Injurious to Vegetation," says " they 

 are common in the vicinity of Boston," and hence we may regard 

 them as emphatically Boston bugs. The writer also says, "It 

 is, or was a few years ago, unknown in the northern and west- 

 ern part of Massachusetts, in New Hampshire, and in Maine." 

 Dr. Harris does not claim to be the author of this interesting 

 little insect, simply its biographer and natural historian. It 

 moves out into the country in June, to avoid the hay fever, un- 

 doubtedly, and, like other summer boarders, takes a great inter- 

 est in small fruits. Dr. Harris says the Melolontha lives forty 

 days, but its habits of fasting are not in the least like those of 

 Dr. Tanner. 



I am confident that those writers who tell us that the rose- 

 chafer attacks the flower-buds just before they expand are mis- 

 taken. I have never seen them on the vine except when in full 

 flower. They are undoubtedly attracted by the delicate odor of 

 the blossom. This insect does not trouble flowers that are des- 

 titute of fragrance. The fragrant varieties of the rose may be 

 alive with them, while the Prairies by their side will be unmo- 

 lested. The beetle abandons the grape as soon as out of flower. 

 I think a smudge, or neighborhood slander, well circulated and 

 supported in a vineyard during the flowering season, would 

 overcome the odor of the vine and repel attacks. 



My practice has been to jar the insect into a shallow basin 

 having a small quantity of kerosene at the bottom. This must 

 be done early in the morning, or when the weather is very cool. 

 At such times they drop at the slightest touch, but in the mid- 

 dle of a sunny day they are both lively and shy. 



GRAFTING THE VINE. 



The vine comes so soon into bearing from cuttings or layers, 

 and young vines are so cheap, that grafting on to large roots of 

 inferior varieties is little practised. Still we may gain a point 

 by grafting the feeble-growing kinds on to the roots of hardy, 

 strong-growing, native vines. The extra root power of the 

 stock will insure a more rapid and healthy growth than can be 



