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very much pleased to notice some time back, that in an 

 official U.S.A. report, attention was markedly drawn to the 

 great importance of destroying puparia of Hessian fly as a 

 means of keeping attacks in check. My name was given as 

 having upheld the plan in England. I am truly glad that the 

 States people have taken this improved view of preventive 

 measures. 



The weather has been quite distressingly hot here, with 

 often a glare of sunshine on this exposed south-west slope 

 that was very painful, and with the heat quantities of the 

 Cabbage white butterflies came out. I got my gardener to 

 syringe the brassicaceous plants with " antipest " as an 

 experiment, and I certainly think that afterwards there was 

 not nearly as large a proportion of the butterflies on the 

 cabbage as in the adjacent flower garden. 

 Believe me, 



Yours very truly, 



ELEANOR A. ORMEROD. 



D. D. Gibb, Esq., Barton, Marlborough. 



