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spring. . hile, venerating the Editor's ex- we call it when 8 with so wise and good a] ducing pest ready em P Natural Hi 
panse of in t, let | Governmen hat of England certainly is in the | scho ols d that t 
a —— silence muse his praise.” = main? Is there cy ae so prejudiced. against | to be Sead. 555 sca os mA exist at all 
‘ our as to | learning, and with s wo comprehension of peasant childre 
ids a ea pan . A ing classes, as to believe that they would not learn | expensive illustrations are required, If oa that 
Natural History if it were . them properly, the reasons, we can only express surprise that der 
d that h < S i i 
ow to apply it: there be any such persons good work. Let schoolmasters be asked for w 
we join issue with them, and at once declare that | sess the rogaisito Wee the talent will 
0 peri of workmen, which experience is the instant there is a demand for it. Let boo =e 
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miess. But flowers and 
leaves, ies the children of vami, are sure 
to bring as their companions all those insect oeyt 
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s | deficient in no respect, but that they would then be | for a year’s pay of some useless public TA would 
distinguished as much by their intelligence as they | furnish a a which half a century would hardi 
by their industry. A * ughman hee | purer gests d 
5 her, inferior in natural ability to a mechanic; but he 1 meanwhile, the young and dili 
br she a 4 mere lr, iria pipaa teat neglected and left to grow up as an animal, instead | help themselves. A pocket lens, Pate — fren 
mane ease civilised Eng of being treated like an intelligent being. oology” (an excellent work), and aecess to the 
“But how,” cries our friend, JASPER Brawnstiit t is more especially to country people that a volumes of the Gardeners”. Chronicle e, or the 
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to at nean’t | correct knowledge of the general facts belonging to | “ Penny Cyclopedia,” will do a great deal towards 
seo such little things as wen “Get a pocket lens, | the habits, &c. of iusects is important. Such men clearing away the diffic altes that exist in the way 
Jasper, and hain Yo e it. The price of a few live where the ravages of insects are most felt ;| of applied Entomology. 
ots f beet will set Sa up.” “Well, and when I they pass their existence among them; they have s to young Farmers, we would only wish them 
ave got it, how am I to o where to look, or the best a of counteracting them, but they to look into their granaries, their Wheat er 
what to look at? How am I to tell what you know not T ssertion that some | their Turnip fields, their Clover leys, and thee 
ave Auel are the friends of whee and others his most | rate entomological articles by Mr. Curis in the 
dle which they can only | volumes of the Ro — Apiau So (Oh! 
es? 
always heard that all insects are a gardener’s | d angerous enemies, is a T 
plague.”—* There you are wrong JASPER: you must solve by putting enin on one side as friends, and we si sic omnia), to learn how r loss from 
study Entomology. —“ Study What! Etymology ? the rest on the ot pid side as enemies; and so an| fighting insects in the dark. "They seal also, not 
why what’s that?” cried poor SranpsTILL, in | indiscriminate war waged upon the insect 5 unprofitably, peruse as following statement by | 
—“ That my good man is the science which | 3 and infinite mischief i is nage Mr. Spence of the fac s belonging to the Hessian 
es you to tel insect from another, to dis- take a case. the spring, trees are fly, with which we 800 By these remarks, 
tinguish friends from foes, to know the wavs of life | attac ke d "by swarms of hace illars which shelter| “The to (the Cecidomyia destructor of Say), 
f these creatures, where they hide, how and when rman itt in $ a film = rae 4 the 33 e e a a 1 boch of 
they d to kill or encourag ese caterpillars proceed from t appet mot e , aS Its name 
e e mologiat Vill be able whos 9 i broad aa band a the | duced into the United States from Germany during the 
to do this: if you are not you vill not?" e b . ch 1 e ue aE 
Sir, I dare to say it’s all very tru u say, ME a mena: ee EEE hed 
but I can’t d ot fi at: I can’ ind indeed! Nor ain dat Tie waking a a the Sa 
he ; for the poor man was too old to be taught how part of the stems of Wheat (occasionally Barley and 
to think. ‘Such dingy should have been learnt by Rye), and thus causing them to the plant to 
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him when y. 
And is es t most discreditable to ve = 
system that hed ee are never thou: 
at natural histo’ neither be Arte 1 le. p mportance, in ev 
ed into the e * the masses—that poor pa udying oy this "ile e pote 
boys who have to get their living by their ene e doing vast mischief— more, says Dr. Barto, 
both of mind and bo dy, should learn nothing ‘ ‘ans — and thes 
familiar. thin f vi than would . of 20, essians — an 
of vital importance to 8 es constantly forcing itself on the attention of farmers and 
and the ountry—yes, to their country; and of owners, and though a few its his 
e most i ce too, we repeat it. Are tory were observed, and endless letters written abot 
net millions of money wasted in superfluous seed- it in newsp and magazines, it was 1803 
„for no reason whatever, except that the lan (24 years after its first appearance) that an 1 
of Raglan is foul with legions of grubs and insects ea ntifie an lligible description of it was me 
musi 
sy the eminent American entomologist, by publishing . 
full eee of it and one of its parasites, d 
the labourers are laz Betmen ad 
; hey do not know the enemies wh 338 giving it aera scientific err 
fatten on eke substance; have never 3 ra 
ught how to wage war against the insidious 4 : 7 
foes which are out of sight ; because those whose bande d colony of of th ame nate 1 pea a el 5 i h 
duty it is to pune ~ them that knowledge, fail in 4 iness is to destroy all clusters of egg- kna what they were talking or wri 
i especi: 00 „ St were not confoun 
now and then pretend to teach them, are so igno- ani e 3 y“ . their friends the little Hymenopterous 
saak that thev render the darkness which enshrouds i porate ieg « h ough wrongfully, | feed on it and destroy 
ar natural history sti impenetrable eee * d 1 bring 10 ` distinction so vitally important, but 50 
5 for exam og case mentiozed by ed ` Tp se — ie ee leaves. 0 o non-scientific * practical 
President of the Entomological Society at its last JC. such | Fite ber ahova GA 7 
anniversar. > s as is repre- burning the stubble, recommende 
“In pepe of which the second edition of a thousand sented in the Gad cut, and deity would have been w ‘ 
copies , entitled The Pests em, supposing them to eggs. In] Can e doubt that if Entomology 
of the Farm, the author, who is an ingenio and that case he commits two mistakes, In eultivated in the 
ious as to the habits of a badger and the first place he does not and economy of 
an otter which he tamed—when he comes under but cocoons, in which repose the pupæ its first showing itse 
h * Insects,’ to speak of the Turnip-fly, begins thus: 8 an ins > co 8 prevented from extending, 
= Turnip-fly is Aa! m applied in secondly, he commits the more ase e ger of pr * 
though in fact no larva is wa 3 killing one pent a u friends, 9 
ver called the pay which is a name appropriated a4 naa 8 FOR u AMATE 
15 va the different minute skipping beetles of the genus wing rogaster) PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS f 
11 ping 3 witch feeds upon se 3 who | D SMALL GA R pe 
are his true enemies. This may be] ON THE Games F Low ens.— We w e 
* easily understood by looking ar the | Possessor of a garden is desirous of 15 Seis“ 
gengeni oy! outline of the cut, which consists vesting awe gay as pare 3 The rep T 
and is asking our advice in the cn D 
represents i 8 a caterpillar 1 pe regu d by. Varios for this n as 
* was destroyed by them while grubs. I the a 1 necessary | e * with t. 
rd, the caterpill ere n present state of the garden, page and whe” 
m Sisha d * 9 series x ee while alive,and d shrubs or no Bhd eth mings 
e Hundreds of 1 s that fed upon it. much of it is laid down 10 Coa Many I font 
ar 15 cases m 1 ut tt oi ee paei ige should 
is 8 u t is . that if the depreda- — 8 47 the 5 Jing 
E 8 5 cont ue me without study, and at I , . se ae | 
1 at 1 so well pursued as by 4 pat ae efe more beautiful and an ol 
sor] 1 7 than nearing by i vacant spot, and let them * tn Seeria o l 
“3 put together as many letters as will spell Nab 3 growth is e 
We believe that the reasons alleged far not intro- | lose — eases bare wen i 
