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vals through the day, more particularly early in the morn 
ing, for although it may be caught at any time when at 
rest upon a plant, it is more sluggish before the heat of the 
day commences. Being only the visitor of a period, annu- 
ally, a careful watching for three or four weeks is requi- 
site at this time, after which it disappears, and is no more 
trouble. The ccckchafer beetles are larger, more oval in 
form than the foregoing, and of several colors; they attack 
the leaves and young shoots through the season, but are 
not so destructive. The same process (hand-picking) will 
have to be resorted to for their destruction. There are 
also several kinds of the larve of humming bird mcths 
that occasionally feed upon the young stems, and edges of 
the leaves, and which, being so near the color of the parts 
they feed upon, and cylindrical in form, are somewhat dif- 
ficult to find; consequently when it is seen that injury is 
being done, a sharp look-out ought to be practised, and a 
quick eye will soon get accustomed to the detection of 
these, and any other kind of caterpillars that occasionally 
may be annoying And here we may state that the best 
advice which can be given in this matter in a general way 
is, to remember the cold saying, that a “stitch in time 
saves nine;” and if we do not wish to cultivate our de- 
structive propensities, by having to destroy an immensity 
in number of s links in creation, we ought to have a 
benevolent feeling, and recollect that the earliest and first 
necessary 
ward, each of which, in the true sense of reason, has ag 
good a right to live as ourselves. 
With regard to the grapery under glass, if the insect 
world is “ legion,” and the generations quick in suecession, 
they are — down, and nothing but gross negli- _ 
gence _—— will permit them to “ shead. = 
