.IN THE GARDEN. 



but* a small portion of one or two of 

 them. 



Perhaps, the most commonly danger- 

 ous garden cricket in India is the large 

 smoky brown brute which is distributed 

 throughout the country. It is a large 

 thick insect about i>"in length when full 

 grown. This cricket, both in the young 

 and adult stage, is insatiable and the 

 amount of young growth it will destroy is 

 almost unbelievable. Rows of seedlings 

 will be cut down and destroyed in a single 

 night by a colony of these pests, living 

 either in tunnels made in the soft seed 

 beds themselves or more probably in 

 some neighbouring sandy patch of 

 soil covered with weeds or low jungle. 



It is not sufficient, remember, to look 

 for the habitations of these insects in the 

 seed beds alone ! If there, you will see 

 the orifices. If not, careful search must 

 be made for them even if the search is 

 carried for a radius of 50 or 100 yards 

 from the scene of the depredations. 



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