IN THE GARDEN. 



We have not yet done with our 

 unwelcome nocturnal guests of the, 

 garden and must now turn to the beetles 

 who number amongst their ranks some 

 grubs which vie with the crickets in their 

 capabilities for destruction. These grubs, 

 however, confine themselves to the soil 

 and are not to be found at work above 

 ground. 



Most people who garden in the true 

 sense of the term, t.e., who do the actual 

 work of sowing and pricking out, etc., 

 themselves, will have come across in the 

 course of their operations curved white 

 grubs with yellowish brown heads, 3 

 pairs of short legs on the front portion 

 of the body following the head and with 

 the hinder part of the body swollen up 

 into a curious kind of bag arrangement. 

 These grubs often prove themselves an 

 unmitigated curse in the garden, as 

 they feed upon and destroy the roots 

 of young and old plants and cut down 

 seedlings. They are the larval form of 



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