RABBITS AND WOODS. 



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A correspoiuleiit who lias given niucli attention to tlie subject 

 (Saliiioniceps) gives the following, as among the most rabh it-proof of 

 plants : — " Most of the Lily family are," he says, " rejected by them, 

 including Daffodils, Tulips, Snowdrops, Sno-\vflakes, Lilies, Day Lilies, 

 Asphodels, and others, and they cannot Ije too extensively plaiitt-d ; 

 but even in that tribe the Crocus (which is also named in the article 

 in cj^uestion) is greedily devoured. I gave — in an early nmuber of 

 your paper (see pp. 9 and 88, Yol. I.) — a list of all rabbit-proof trees, 

 shrubs, and flowers then kno\ra to me, and I regret that, though keep- 

 ing a watch ujion the subject, I have not been able to add a single 

 species to tlie list given below." 



Lists, however, and considerations of the above sort, are a poor 

 substitute for what is realh" recj^uired in such cases — the extermination 

 of pests which are destructive alike to field crops, to trees and shrubs, 

 and to plants, and which offer at best a very scanty return for the 

 havoc they commit. 





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