[344] M. de la Hire in Reaum. ii. 478.
[345] Dr. Smith Barton's Letter in Philos. Magaz. xxii. 210. William Davy, Esq. American Consul of the Port of Hull, long resident in the United States, informed me that though he had abundance of peaches at his country-house, German Town near Philadelphia, he could never succeed with the nectarine, the fruit constantly falling off perforated by the grub of some insect.
[346] Descr. of the I. of St. Helena, 147.
[347] A mode of destroying this hurtful insect is given in a Number of that useful and interesting work, the Gardener's Magazine, just quoted.
[348] Reaum. ii. 505.
[349] Ibid. ii. 507. and Hasselquist's Travels in the Levant, 428.
[350] That is "High and Low," Judges ix. 13.
[351] Sturm Deutschlands Fauna, i. 5.
[352] Latreille, Hist. Nat. xi. 66. 331.
[353] Host in Jacquin. Collect. iii. 297.