MOTHS AS DESTKUCTIVES. 



" Now busily convened upon the bud 

 That crowns the genial branch, they feast sublime, 

 And spread their muslin canopy around, 

 Pavilioned richer than the proudest kings." 



THE grand army of Moth-destructives is now in all the ac- 

 tivity of a spring campaign. According to their local distri- 

 bution, these may be considered as attacking us under four 

 principal divisions, each subdivided into numerous companies. 

 One of them is employed on what we may call the out-works, 

 our fields and forest-trees ; a second, coming nearer, spoliates 

 and levies contributions on our gardens ; a third, more daring, 

 invades our granaries ; while a fourth, boldest of all, attacks 



