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patcliy places, fully up to a good average, but that in enclosed gardens 
the Fly was very destructive. 
Mr. Hayward, writing from the neighbourhood of Hereford, 
mentions that there has not been any appreciable injury from ravages 
of insects, either to corn, seeds, or root crops in that locality during 
the current year (1882). [In the previous season, 1881, a large part 
of Herefordshire was shown by the many returns sent in to have been 
heavily visited by the Fly. —Ed.] 
Mr. James Edwards, writing from Woodhorn Manor, Morpeth, 
says—“ To the best of my belief there has not been a single Turnip 
Beetle on my farm, and I have frequently searched for one to show 
my pupils without success.” This locality was one that suffered badly 
in the previous season; and the absence of Turnip Fly attack during 
1882 is still more remarkable in the southern counties of Scotland, 
the district of the worst of the attack of 1881. 
Mr. R. Service, Maxwelltown, Dumfries, reported that the district 
of the western part of Dumfriesshire and all Kirkcudbrightshire 
had been remarkably free from insects. The fine growth of vege¬ 
tation never gave the insects a chance, and hence the comparative 
immunity. 
Mr. Muirhead, Haddington, says we have had no injury from 
Turnip Fly in this county this season. 
Mr. P. Loney, writing from Marchmont, Berwickshire, N.B., 
where Turnip Fly caused serious havoc in 1881, mentions that in 1882 
this kind of attack was almost entirely absent, and the crop of 
Turnips in the county the largest that had occurred for many years. 
Mr. Malcolm Dunn, writing from Dalkeith, mentioned that Turnip 
Fly began its ravages in the earlier sown crops, but the heavy and 
seasonable rains of the early part of June put a stop to the attack. 
Crossing now to the West of Scotland, Mr. James Kay, Rothesay, 
Isle of Bute, mentions that this season the Fly seemed to be almost 
absent. 
At Torloisk, Isle of Mull, Mr. Grierson reports that Turnip Fly did 
little damage either in the garden or the field, and adds—“ I do not 
remember a season in which we have been so little troubled with 
insects; it has been a rather wet summer. More rain fell in the 
preceding summer (1881), but in this (1882) there were more days on 
which rain fell. This was one of the few localities in which in 1881 
field Turnips were reported as escaping Fly attack entirely, the heavy 
rainfall, amounting to 5 inches in June, and 8‘80 inches in July, being 
noted by Mr. Grierson as having forced the plants very fast into 
rough leaf. 
At Colenden, Perthshire, Mr. R. Coupar notices it could not be 
said there was any attack this year, for the young Turnips got into 
