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2. Injuries to our living vegetable property continued. 



To Flower Garden - - - - 108 



Stove and Greenhouse - 109 



Orchard and Fruitery - - 109116 



Raspberries - - - - - - -109 



Gooseberries and Currants - - - - -110 



Cherries - - - - - - -HO 



Plums - - ."- - - - - 111 



Pears - Ill 



Apples - - - - - - -111 



Peaches and Nectarines - - - - - 1 13 



Olives - - - - - - -114 



Chestnuts and Dates - - - - - - 1 14 



Pomegranates and Oranges - - - - - 114 



Grapes - - - - - - -115 



Fruit trees generally - - - - - -116 



Plantations and Groves - - - - -117 



By Beetles 117 



Caterpillars - - - - -117 



Aphides (honey-dew) - - - .- -119 



Insects attacking the interior of trees 120 



Insects attacking their bark and alburnum - - 121 



LETTER VII. 



INDIRECT INJURIES continued 125 131 



The ravages of Locusts 125 131 



LETTER VIII. 



INDIRECT INJURIES concluded - 132 143 



3. Injuries to our dead property, whether animal or vegetable - 132 143 



To our Food 

 Drugs 

 Clothes 



Houses and Furniture 

 Timber - 

 Books, Pictures, &c. 

 Dead Stock generally 



132 

 135 

 135 

 136 

 137 

 138 

 139 



LETTER IX. 



INDIRECT BENEFITS DERIVED FROM INSECTS ... 144 170 



By maintaining a due balance between vegetable and animal pro- 

 ductions - - - - - - -145 



removing nuisances and deformities .... 146 



destroying noxious Insects - - - - - 150 



serving as food for other animals 160 



promoting the fertilisation of plants - - - - 167 



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