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ON THE DIFFERENT 
SPECIES OF INSECTS 
THAT INFEST THE 
V I N E ; 
With proper Methods of destroying or preventing them, 
A lthough the vine is not very liable to be infefled 
with infedls when growing in the open air in this 
country % yet few plants fuffer more from their ravages than 
Vines under glafs, efpecially thofe growing in Pine-ftoves. 
The 
^ I believe the vineyards abroad are not generally fubje£l: to be infefted with in- 
fers : We are informed, however, that there have been inftances where the Vines 
have been fo greatly injured, as to caufe a confiderable decreafe in the produce of 
the vintage. This I prefume only happens in dry fummers, and in the countries 
that lie near the tropics. 
“ The ifle of Pico has its name from the peak or high mountain upon it. This 
“ ifland is not only the largeft, but alfo the moft populous of the Azores, 
“ containing 30,000 inhabitants. It has no corn fields, being every where 
“ covered with vineyards, which have a moft enchanting appearance on the 
“ eafy Hope at the foot of the mountain. The feafon of vintage is the feafon 
“ of mirth and feftivity, when a fourth, or even a third part of the inhabi- 
“ tants 
