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DISTRICT OF-CANTERBURY.:-~ 405 Tg ast may be less acceptable and nutritive to her sult young offspring.* The wild hop and the witha red bine(which is considered as nearly: ded with| allied to it), as well as the stinted hops of| the qua: foul poor ground(though of the white bine ce: the variety), fall under the latter description. ‘ase, the Again, the stillness and warmth, which the ls were| inner rows of a plantation enjoy, may be Ie(tp. more genial to them, than an eastern expo- In one sure. ast, Was Had the forced plants escaped the aphides, e pieve,—and other enemies, and diseases, to which tL ano- such plants appear to be peculiarly liable-—

hile the their produce would, doubtless, have been much greater, than that of the foul stinted

yn every 0p plants under notice. But an excessive crop, Fe viite in a general bearing year, may be deemed

a misfortune, rather than an advantage: for, in that case, the price is proportionally.

yin these| low: and the exhaustion generally such, as 3

ly relied: a bythe to render the plantation barren, for one or “ht more years afterward. ow, that|

rh e610F* Or shall we say—aphides prefer an overgrown en- oftdeli- feebled plant, to one which is. more robust, and better sate able to withstand their attack? In animals, a weak en- races feebled state is that in which they are most liable to be ‘as attacked by vermin. e juice

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