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planted in a nursery at Chelsea. An English writer on 

 orchards says, " I have from good authority heard that it 

 was brought to this country from France, in the reign of 

 Louis XIV., when a colony of refugees settled at Padding- 

 ton, and there it was first observed to begin its depreda- 

 tions on apple-trees." This last account is far more likely 

 to be correct, since the insect has been very common in 

 France, while in America, we hear so little of it, that it is 

 scarcely known to any but entomologists, and nursery men. 



Dr. Fitch, in the Annual Report on the State Cabinet of 

 Natural History of New York, dated 1851, says of this 

 aphis : " Commonly, only solitary individuals are found, 

 and in but one instance have- 1 met with it clustered, and 

 covering a limb, as described by foreign writers." 



It is rather remarkable that as warm seasons are said 

 to favor its increase, our warmer summers should not have 

 rendered it more troublesome in this country ; possibly 

 our colder winters may have a counteracting effect, al- 

 though, as a general rule, insects with their larvae and 

 eggs, will bear great extremes of cold. 



NOTE GG-. 



THE HOLLY, (Ilex) p. 247. 



We have in America two kinds of holly. One, Ilex 

 montana, or Mountain Holly, is found on the Alleghanies, 

 and the Catskills, and is seldom more than a straggling 

 shrub, from eight to twenty feet in height. The Ilex opaca, 

 or American Holly, strictly speaking, is a tree from twenty 

 to fifty feet in height, found in most woodlands from Maine 

 to the Southern States, where it is more common than in 

 the northern parts of the country. It is far, however, from 

 being a familiar tree to most Americans, whose acquaint- 

 ance with the holly is apt to be more connected with their 

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