
          rain for others, yet one of these is [slated?] [crossed out: species]
 plants was found by the moth or fly on which
 to deposit its eggs — the first year I destroyed
 every caterpillar on the plants in my garden.
 The second year they came again & I destroyed
 them until I had secured specimens.
 I then let them alone & after eating all the 
 leaves, they attacked the seeds vessels & eat
 threm — Now I know this caterpillar never
 attacks A. [plant name: Serprutaria?]


 Again the asclepiadia which I take to be the
 [?] of Nuttall & A. Connivens of 
 B. when transplanted in my garden was
 attacked by a peculiar caterpillar with
 transverse stripes they attacked the plant
 every year until it died. I tried to exterminate
 them by searching for & destroying
 every worm as fast as they showed on the leaves.
 Still the succeeding year they came as abundantly
 as ever. Now this worm I have never
 seen on any other of the asclepias family.
 What is strange to me, this plant growing in
 its natural situation is rarely molested by
 this or any other insect.


 I cultivated the [officinial?] [Senna?] for family
 use. It is liable to be attacked by a peculiar
 caterpillar about the size of the cabbage worm
 as we call it here but very different from the 
 cabbage worm. This caterpillar never attacks
 any other species of [Cossia?].


 The worm that we call "bole worm" which last
 year & the present has done incalculable
 destruction to the young & [crossed out: old] [added: grown] balls of cotton
 does not touch the leaves, it leaves them for
 what is called the army worm when it chooses 
 to cover.
        