GAEDEN CROPS DESTROYED. 



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and injured my rose bushes. . . . For three years previous to 1891 

 my Baldwin apple tree bore no fruit on account of the ravages of 

 the moth. It was stripped every year. (Mrs. Follansbee.) 



At my place on Woburn Street I had a small bed of spinach 

 and dandelions which the caterpillars completely destroyed. My 

 tomatoes suffered a like fate. (Ex-Selectman Craig.) 



In 1889 I had twenty-seven hundred young carnation pinks set 

 out of doors, and the biggest part of them -were destroyed by the 

 caterpillars. This was in June. They were eaten off close to the 

 ground. In 1890 the gypsy moth appeared in my greenhouses, 

 and the foliage of the bushes in one rose house was completely 

 eaten up. (A. W. Crockford, 81 Spring Street.) 



It was almost impossible to have plants or green things of any 

 sort. The caterpillars would eat anything that they could get hold 

 of. The rose bushes were stripped. My mother plants yearly 

 beans, peas, etc., but that year we did not get much from them. 

 The parsley also was almost aU. eaten. (Miss R. M. Angelbeek.) 



The rose bushes were completely stripped, all the leaves and 

 blossoms being lost. Despite the utmost efforts of two of us, it 

 was impossible to keep the rose bushes free of caterpillars. They 

 were very fond of the deutzias in the garden, and completely 

 ruined them. (Mrs. Ransom.) 



They seemed particularly destructive to the Porter apple tree. 

 The apples very largely fell off, and the inside of those that re- 

 mained on the tree was not fit to eat. . . . The caterpillars ate 

 the leaves of a white rose bush and a syringa in our yard, and the 

 latter died from the effects of the stripping. (Mrs. Benson.) 



Our vegetable garden w^as practically ruined by them, peas, 

 beans, corn, etc., being eaten. The garden of our next-door 

 neighbor, Mr. Camp, suffered a like fate. . . . Our raspberry 

 bushes were also stripped of their leaves. Vie lived later on 

 Lawrence Street, and here also the caterpillars vrere trouble- 

 some. An umbrella bush in the yard was killed by them. (Mrs. 

 Flinn.) 



My usual apple crop was from fifty to one hundred barrels 

 yearly ; but the second year of the caterpillar plague I did not 

 get more than forty barrels. The third year I do not think I got 

 more than thii'ty barrels. (D. M. Richardson.) 



After they had eaten the foliage of trees, the caterpillars would 

 devour almost any green thing. (J. N. French, 7 Lawi'ence 

 Street.) 



They were the most ravenous worms I ever saw. They would 

 eat almost everything, taking the apples and the elms first. 

 (John Cotton, 16 Cotting Street.) 



