INSECT INTRUDERS. 



to contend with. The point is of 

 importance since we have so often to 

 bewail lost seedlings or, even worse, 

 seed patches, whole sowings disappearing 

 without our having the faintest idea of 

 where they have gone to. It is not 

 always the much maligned mail's fault. 



I remember one morning whilst potter- 

 ing about the garden imagining I was 

 gardening, hearing a tragic and tearful 

 voice saying 



" Oh, dear, do come here. Some nasty 

 thing has eaten off some of my best 

 white lupins ! " 



It was the Girl's first year in the 

 country and her first experience of The 

 Gardener's Trials in the East. I hastened 

 to the spot revolving in my mind the 

 various Satanic pests who might be the 

 cause of the note of tragedy in a voice 

 where nothing tragic should ever be. 



It was as I had surmised ! The young 

 seedlings were cut down just above the 

 soil and left lying on the spot, though a 

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