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falls in its way appears to escape its ravages. In 
the above year 1818, 1826, and 1827, it proved 
a most formidable enemy both to the Horticultural 
and Agricultural vegetables. The autumn pi’o- 
ductions, of most descriptions, fell a sacrifice to it, 
especially in the year 1818, when Turnips, Rape, 
and other Horticultural produce, were swept com- 
pletely away, so that I believe there scarcely 
was a good Turnip to be found, except in some 
very moist situations, and there but very few. 
These evils were produced by the Grub gnawing 
or shearing off the young plants a little within, or 
level with the surface, and sometimes totally con- 
suming those in the seed leaf. When the stems of 
the plants are too old and hard for the insect to per- 
forate, it will attack the base or lower parts of the 
leaf, and the heart of the plant, and such leaves as 
lay upon the surface of the ground, and when food 
proves scarce, it will travel to a considerable dis- 
tance, till it can meet with it. Under such circum- 
stances it will ascend plants of any kind, and fix 
upon them when it cannot feed near the surface. It 
is remarkable that some are often found dead in 
such situations, stretched at full length, a circum- 
stance I am not able to account for, except they 
pai'take of food that does not properly digest or 
agree with them. 
For their Destruction. — It will be im- 
possible to lay down any plan upon a large scale 
for their destruction, but the following hints may 
Ijo of some service on a smaller scale j I will 
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