^^ ^,rj 



they suck the sap, 

 and literally over- 

 flow with the bounty 

 which they thus ab- 

 sorb and convert into " honey- 

 dew." 



We need not go very far in 

 our country walk to discover 

 our aphides encircling the 

 stems of weed and shrub, and 

 it is well the next time we 

 encounter them to observe 

 them more closely. They 

 would indeed appear at first 

 glance to be having things en- 

 tirely their own way. Even 

 here in my city back yard, 

 for instance, upon my grow- 

 ing chrysanthemums, as I sit at the back win- 

 dows some twenty feet distant, I can distinctly 

 see their brown, disfiguring masses completely 

 inclosing the under tips of nearly all the 

 branches. 



