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NA T URE-ST UD Y RE VIE W [16 :3— Mar., 1920 



The Garden Enemies 



Masks of paper bags fashioned to represent chewing and sucking insects, 

 garments for the rest of the costume. 



A Garden Health Drive 



One piece 



[A revision of its first publication in the National Service Bulletin, March 15, 



1919] 



Alberta Walker 



J. O. Wilson, Normal School, Washington, D. C. 



Scene: The Garden Hospital. A row of beds with names 

 printed above them and sick vegetables in them. Reading from 

 left to right — Cabbage Bed, Onion Bed, Potato Bed, Beet Bed, 

 Carrot Bed, Squash Bed, and Bean Bed. The occupants are in 

 varying positions, some propped up, some lying flat, and some 

 having heads bound. All are restless, and some are groaning. 



Cabbage. Anne Onion, if you don't keep still I shall report 

 you to the nurse. 



Onion. How can I keep still when I know that Thrips will be 

 after me again ? 



Cabbage. What are Thrips compared with the monster Cabbage 

 Worm? I can't sleep without dreaming of the squirming things. 



Onion. Thrips not only bite but they suck the life from me. 

 Soon I shall turn pale and die. 



Potato. Your troubles are nothing compared with mine. 

 How would you like to be bitten by beetles ? Why they came all 

 the way from Colorado to find me. 



Bean. You amuse me. Wait until Aphids trouble you and 

 you will know what real suffering is. Besides, I have another 



