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1825. I find, from my memorandum, that the 
weather was generally pretty Avarm through the 
middle of the day, and very droughty from the 
fore end of March up to the 20th of April, and 
in all gardens that came under my notice, those 
little animals reigned most predominantly. The 
whole union of leaves and tender fruit became a 
prey to them ; and what made the evil still 
greater, the surviving fruit became so much ex- 
posed to the spring frosts, that but few escaped 
destruction. 
We find that the Berry bush escapes the 
annoyance of those little depredators, when the 
spring months are cold and wet, not because the 
Spiders are destroyed either by wet or cold, but 
that neither prove congenial to their habits, and 
therefore, at such seasons, they abstain from feed- 
ing, and retire, which must naturally afford an op- 
portunity for the leaves to gain sUength and vigour, 
independent of the advantage the trees derive 
from the rain invigorating the whole plant. 
It may be supposed that their cells, or retire- 
ments prevent them from being destroyed, but 
in reference to that I would observe, that their 
protection is so slight, that the gi-eatest bulk is 
exposed to the rain that may fall, and yet if the 
warm sun-rays, break through the clouds, and the 
foliage becomes pretty dry, though the rain may 
have been ever so intense, those little animals are 
exhilerated. 
For their Destruction. — About the 
