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their eggs are searched for and destroyed, and to for- 

 ward this work people often call in the assistance of 

 their neighbours. In the Crimea the small caterpillar 

 of a Procris or Ino (lepidopterous genera separated 

 from Sphinx, L.) related to i". Statices, is a still more 

 destructive enemy. As soon as the buds open in the 

 spring, it eats its way into them, especially the fruit 

 buds, and devours the germ of the grape. Two or 

 three of the caterpillars will soon so injure a vine, by 

 creeping from one germ to another, that it will bear 

 no fruit, nor produce a single regular shoot the suc- 

 ceeding year. Vine leaves in France are also fre- 

 quently destroyed by the larva of a moth (Tortrix 

 vi tana) ; in Germany another species does great injury 

 to the young bunches, preventing their expansion by 

 the webs in which it involves them, and a third (Tor- 

 trix fasciana) makes the grapes themselves its food : 

 a similar insect is alluded to in the threat contained 

 in Deuteronomy xxviii. 39. (Kirby and Spences 

 Entomology, i. 204.) 



Field Mouse. Mr. Fleming, at Trentham Hall, 

 finds this little animal attacks the inner bark in severe 

 winters. Gardeners, therefore, should see that it is 

 not harboured by the dung on the borders. 



