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from insects ; and consequentlyj the fanner there is obHged to have 

 persons constantly employed in scaring away the birds. 



Subject to be continued. 



H. MEIGS, Sec'y. 



INSECTS. 



Hessian Fly. — Lieuwenhoek observed that the reproduction of this 

 insect was so rapid that a male and female commencing on the first 

 of June, would produce in three months, descendants to the number 

 of seven hundred thousand. 



CURCULIO A COLEOPTER. 



About three hundred species have been observed whose principal 

 marke of distinction is color. Their transformations are singular, 

 their larvae are soft oblong worms, furnished with six scaly legs and 

 scaly head ; while very small they get into grains of wheat or other 

 grain and make their dwellings there, so in some other seeds, some in 

 the insides of plants. A small species gets inside of the leaf of the 

 elm and eats that inside. The leaves of the elm sometimes appear 

 yellow and apparently dead towards one of the edges, while the rest 

 of the leaf is green ; the dead part resembles a small bladder in which 

 the worm inhabits until its transformation, when it pierces its bladder 

 and comes out a small, active, leaping curculio, for which purpose its 

 liind legs are well adapted. 



The Coleopters are all insects which a sheath for their wings- 

 Coleos meaning sheath, called also a mile, ;x weevil, &.c. 



Revue Horticole — .Toijrn.il D'liorticuUurc. 



Pratique, Paris Sept. 1848. 



Translation by Henry Meigs. 



Charged by the central committee of agriculture of the Cote d'Or, 

 to examine and report on the culture of the grape vine, without any 

 supports or props, as practised by the Abbe Cornesse, at Champagne 



