SEED-TIME A#3B HARVEST. 
quite different. Instead of the standard be- 
ing upright, it fell forward, surrounding the 
keel, and giving the appearance of a bell¬ 
shaped blossom. — doubtless a provision 
against the scorching sun of Egypt during 
the infancy of the delicate seed vessel. We 
found the peas excellent for the table; in 
size they were rather larger than the mar¬ 
row pea. After a year or two in Hampshire, 
they got mildewed, and were lost. I 
brought a handful into Devonshire, and we 
grew them for some little time; and one of 
the Exeter nurserymen had some of them 
and sent them out as ‘‘Mummy Peas; ’ but 
they were always liable to get mildewed, 
possibly from debility in consequence of 
their prolonged sleep. 
A Rare Visitor. 
The seventeen-year locust is making its 
appearance in great numbers in various 
parts of the country, though very few have 
been seen in Philadelphia as yet, says the 
Inquirer. For a long time after this insect 
had received its popular name, scientists 
were inclined to laugh at the theory that 
its visits were repeated at seventeen year 
intervals, but further study showed the 
accuracy of the unscientific observers. The 
fly, as it is properly called—for it is not a 
locust at all—appears irregularly in differ- 
sections, but only once in seventeen years 
in the same section, and this because sev¬ 
enteen years are required to develop the 
perfect insect from the egg. There is 
another kind which completes its period, of 
development in thirteen years, but it is 
comparatively rare. The “locust” is not 
injurious, except to the small twigs of 
trees. It eats nothing while in its winged 
state, but the female punctures the twigs 
of various kinds of trees and lays her eggs 
in the wound, after which the twig usually 
dies, thus disfiguring and possibly injuring 
the tree; though in most instances the 
pruning thus effected is beneficial rather 
than the reverse. In about six weeks the 
eggs hatch out, and the young insects, in 
their grub or larval state, drop to the earth, 
into which they immediately burrow until 
they find a root. They attach themselves 
to this, and there remain for seventeen 
years, living on the sap of the root, which 
they' suck up through a tube something 
like that of the mosquito. When the ap¬ 
pointed time arrives, they burrow upward 
again, and crawl up some tree or wail to 
the height of a few feet from the earth, 
where they shed their chrysalis coats and 
become perfect insects; after which their 
life is a short and merry one. They sing 
by night and fly about by day. but perish 
in a week or two, having run their natural 
course. 
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