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come from China or Japan — that in Java is not there natural. 

 The first one of the group known in Europe came to Holland from 

 Batavia in 1680. It was cultivated and admired for about a 

 dozen years, in the garden of Mr. Jerome Van Beverning, a great 

 amateur of holticulture. Since then — strange destiny— it was lost 

 to our gardens until 1768, when some of them were imported from 

 Batavia by the illustrious voyager Commerson. 



SUMMER TREATMENT OF GRAPE VINES AND SMALL 

 FRUITS. 



By Henry Meigs. 

 This includes all that we can do for their advantage after they 

 have all formed th«ir leaves and flowers. 



The first difficulty I have found is their enemy insects, and the 

 necessity of using all means to destroy them before they destroy 

 the fruit. The growth of these little marauders is surprisingly 

 rapid. We have not ceased to wonder whence they come. On 

 the linden leaf, on Saturday last, we first saw the measurer. It 

 is about one-eighth of an inch long, and yet having all the move- 

 ments of the large one. The severity of the late spring has ap- 

 parently had no power to stop the development of this little 

 creature, who finds the lovely dense foliage of our lindens its pre- 

 cious morsel, and within a month the millions of leaves will be 

 destroyed, there being little short of one measurer to every leaf. 



We war with these, and curculios, and caterpillars, from gene- 

 tion to generation, and still find them wiser than ourselves in 

 their time and generations. We have not yet applied our intel- 

 lect to conquer their instincts. The most intense application of 

 time and magnifying powers will ultimately teach us their habits, 

 locations, &c., and until then we throw away our time and labor, 

 as the fisherman who sought for whales in a rivulet. 



Those insects which weave make themselves conspicuous. In 

 the morning early we can easily distinguish their silk — the pro- 

 duce of last night's spinning and weaving — and the family all 

 within the camp like an army in foul weather. When we see 

 this on our trees and plants, we should, being prepared before 



