BLIGHT. 
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GOOSEBERRY-GRUBS OF THE NATURAL SIZE. 
CHAPTER IV. 
It was immediately after my return from the Isle of 
Wight, that I ' revised,' as the book people say, a lot of 
mems, made at divers times, about those insects that are 
universally, but as I think ignorantly, known by the name 
of ' blight : ' and here they are. 
Blight is a term generally misunderstood; especially 
among those whom it more particularly concerns. The 
knowing horticulturist will tell you, There is blight in the 
air to-day : " and in a few days or weeks, he will see the 
web of the lackey, or the yellow-tail, or the ermine, on his 
white-thorn hedge-rows ; or the caterpillars of the death's 
head hawk-moth on his potatoes ; or those of butterflies on 
