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2. Injuries to our living vegetable property continued. 



To Flower Garden - - - - - 108 



Stove and Greenhouse - - - - 109 



Orchard and Fruitery - - . 109 116 



Raspberries - - - - - - -109 



Gooseberries and Currants - - - - - 110 



Cherries - - - - - - -11O 



Plums - - - - - -111 



Pears HI 



Apples - - - - - - in 



Peaches and Nectarines - - - - -113 



Olives - - - - - . -114 



Chestnuts and Dates - - - - - -114 



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 ....... 132 



Drugs - 135 



Clothes ----... 135 

 Houses and Furniture - - - - -136 



Timber .... . 1 37 



Books, Pictures, &c. - - - - - 138 



Dead Stock generally - - - . - 139 



LETTER IX. 

 INDIRECT BENEFITS DERIVED PROM 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 - .... 16O 



promoting the fertilisation of plants - - - - - 167 



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