RAVAGES OF MAGGOTS. 



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and a grain, which is generally shrivelled, as if depri- 

 ved of nourishment; and although the pollen may fur- 

 nish the larva? with food in tlio first instance, they 

 soon crowd around the lower |)art of the jicnncn, and 

 there, in all prohabilitv, subsist on the matter destined 

 to have formed the 



Germination of a grain of wlaai. o, the hcai t of tlie grain, 

 the part ilevonrcd by tlie insect. 6, liag o tlie sfed. c, the ruot. 

 d, vessels to convey the nutriirient lor the root, e, feathers 

 conveying the pollen to Iruciily the seed. 



Another intellig-ent observer, IVIr Gorrie, of Annat 

 Gardens, Perthshire, found that by the first of August 

 all the maggots leave the ears, and go into the ground 

 about the depth of half an inch, where it is probable 

 they pass the winter in the pupa .state. 't 



It is interesting to learn that this destructive in- 



* Loudon's Majr. of Nat., Hist., Nov. 1S29. p. 4.50. 

 t Ibid, September, lS29,p. 324. 



