. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. HEMIPTERA. 47 side of the leaf; but the melons and cucumbers in the glass structures are pretty constantly visited by this pest. Sometimes the leaves of our cabbage plants are infested, but never in my garden to such an extent as I have seen them elsewhere. I have noticed beet-root and mangold extensively destroyed, but not at my garden. Grasses have a pecuUar aphis. Rose-trees are frequently injured by aphides, which attack the young shoots. In some gardens honeysuckle
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. HEMIPTERA. 47 side of the leaf; but the melons and cucumbers in the glass structures are pretty constantly visited by this pest. Sometimes the leaves of our cabbage plants are infested, but never in my garden to such an extent as I have seen them elsewhere. I have noticed beet-root and mangold extensively destroyed, but not at my garden. Grasses have a pecuUar aphis. Rose-trees are frequently injured by aphides, which attack the young shoots. In some gardens honeysuckles are con- stantly so severely attacked as to destroy their appearance, but mine have not so suffered. Ivy is sometimes seriously injured. The leaves of the apple-tree are often visited by a species totally different from the American Blight, but it has never been seen at my garden. The limes are constantly visited by such numbers that much honey is produced for the bees and wasps ; the beech is also similarly infested. We have had two or three large willows killed by thousands of a very large kind of aphis, which Mr. Buckton has determined from my specimens to be the Lachnus Saligiia (plate 23, figs. 1-3), although it may possibly be the A. salicis of Curtis, but not of Walker or Linnseus. The oak has several species, including the variety with long rostrum (fig. 1054), which lives in the cracks in the oak bark ; and the sycamores have a very large species on their leaves, which is followed by a black fungus. ^'°- 1054—Aphis Quercus, magnified. I might cite many other examples, but I have mentioned enough to show* how formidable these creatures are, from the variety of plants which they attack, and on account of the vast quantities which feed on a single plant. It is a desideratum to have good figures of all these creatures. I am well pleased that Mr. Buckton is undertaking this task, as an accurate drawing from nature of any natural object is a gift to the world, and a con
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