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The Phylloxera--French sport--Life history of the Phylloxera--Cockchafer grubs--Wireworm--The misunderstood crows--Dangerous sucklings of greenflies--"Sweat of heaven" and "Saliva of the stars"--A parasite of a parasite of a parasite--Buds--The apple-blossom weevil--Apple-sucker--The codlin moth and the ripening apple--The pear midge--A careless naturalist and his present of rare eggs--Leaf-miners--Birds without a stain upon their characters--Birds and man--Moats--Dust and mites--The homes of the mites--Buds, insect eggs, and parent birds flourishing together 290