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vals through the day, more particularly early in the morn- 

 ing, for although it may be caught at any time when at 

 rest upon a plant, it is more sluggish before the heat of the 

 day commences. Being only the visitor of a period, annu- 

 ally, a careful watching for three or four weeks is requi- 

 site at this time, after which it disappears, and is no more 

 trouble. The cockchafer beetles are larger, more oval in 

 form than the foregoing, and of several colors ; they attack 

 the leaves and young shoots through the season, but are 

 not so destructive. The same process (hand-picking) will 

 have to be resorted to for their destruction. There are 

 also several kinds of the larvae of humming bird moths 

 that occasionally feed upon the young stems, and edges of 

 the leaves, and which, being so near the color of the parts 

 they feed upon, and cylindrical in form, are somewhat dif- 

 ficult to find ; consequently when it is seen that injury is 

 being done, a sharp look-out ought to be practised, and a 

 quick eye will soon get accustomed to the detection of 

 these, and any other kind of caterpillars that occasionally 

 may be annoying. And here we may state that the best 

 advice which can be given in this matter in a general way 

 is, to remember the old saying, that a "stitch in time 

 saves nine ;" and if we do not wish to cultivate our de- 

 structive propensities, by having to destroy an immensity 

 in number of God's links in creation, we ought to have a 

 benevolent feeling, and recollect that the earliest and first 

 onslaught upon the precocious subject will render un- 

 necessary the putting to death of countless myriads after- 

 ward, each of which, in the true sense of reason, has as 

 good a right to live as ourselves. 



With regard to the grapery under glass, if the insect 

 world is " legion," and the generations quick in succession, 

 they are easily kept down, and nothing but gross negli- 

 gence or ignorance will permit them to get ahead. Use 



