Packard.] 
INSECTS OE THE GARDEN. 
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and fruit trees, the list would extend to several hundreds. 
A few of these, such as the imported cabbage butterfly, 
apple bark-louse, the vaporer moth, the gooseberry saw-fly 
and others are importations from Europe, while the still 
more injurious canker worm, tent caterpillar, apple tree 
borer, pear slug, and more that could be mentioned are 
natives, and before the apple and pear were introduced prob¬ 
ably fed on the species of wild cherry, thorn and other 
rosaceous plants common in our woodlands. 
In speaking of the great number of injurious insects 
which infest certain plants, I may be pardoned for quoting 
as follows from my first “Annual Report on the Injurious 
and Beneficial Insects” made to the Massachusetts Board 
of Agriculture. 
“We should not forget that each fruit or shade tree, gar¬ 
den shrub or vegetable, has a host of insects peculiar to it, 
and which year after year renew their attacksi I could enu¬ 
merate upwards of fifty species of insects which prey upon 
cereals and grasses, and as many which infest our field crops. 
Some thirty well known species ravage our garden vegetables. 
There are nearly fifty species which attack the grape vine, 
and their number is rapidly increasing. About seventy-five 
species make their annual onset upon the apple tree, and 
nearly an equal number may be found upon the plum, pear, 
peach and cherry. Among our shade trees, over fifty species 
infest the oak ; twenty-five the elm ; seventy-five the walnut, 
and over one hundred species of insects prey upon the pine.” 
Cut Worms .—Among those general pests, which have no 
special food-plant, and from their omnivorous tastes do 
infinite mischief in gardens, are certain sly, nocturnal crea¬ 
tures, the cut worms. They have the well known habit of 
cutting off with their jaws the young, succulent plants of fhe s 
cabbage, turnip, bean, tomato, corn and various cultivated\ 
flowers. 
These caterpillars are usually cylindrical, the body taper- 
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