This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V27", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
"A Subscriber" says: "After reading Mr. A. W. Smith's remarks on diseases of plants, I thought I would ask: Would not an inquiry into the losses and injuries incurred by destructive insects be also an interesting subject of value to the readers of the Monthly".
[We need scarcely say that any such contributions will be equally valuable with any on the other topic. In fact, losses to cultivators from disease and from insects are often very closely related to each other. - Ed. G. M].
 
Continue to: