The Measure Worm ("Ennomos Subsignaria" H?bner): A Description of the Insect, in All Its Metamorphoses, Its History and Progress, and a Systematic Plan for Its Final Extermination, Together With Remarks on the State of Shade Trees in the City of Brooklyn

H. A. Graef

ISBN 10: 0331136198 / ISBN 13: 9780331136197

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• Title: The Measure Worm ("Ennomos Subsignaria" H?bner): A Description of the Insect, in All Its Metamorphoses, Its History and Progress, and a Systematic Plan for Its Final Extermination, Together With Remarks on the State of Shade Trees in the City of Brooklyn
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0331136198
• ISBN 13: 9780331136197
• Binding: HRD
• Condition: New
• Weight: 252 grams

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Excerpt from The Measure Worm ("Ennomos Subsignaria" Hübner): A Description of the Insect, in All Its Metamorphoses, Its History and Progress, and a Systematic Plan for Its Final Extermination, Together With Remarks on the State of Shade Trees in the City of Brooklyn

The only question is then, or ought to be, whether the plan proposed by the gentlemen whose Report is herewith submit ted, is likely to prove at once economical and efficient. And in regard to this question, the undersigned can only say that it seems to them nearly certain to be successful in removing the obstinate and still-extending nuisance from our streets, at a comparatively small expense to each owner or occupant of a house far more likely, at least, to do this, than any other plan which has been hitherto tried or suggested. It contemplates, as will be seen, quite a number of practical measures, each of which is important in its place, and which in the aggregate will, we think, be entirely and permanently effective. We have really no doubt that if these measures should be generally adopted and persistently carried out, the worms would, in a year or two, be practically extirpated; and that thus our city would present itself as it ought, to citizens and to strangers, not bald and bare of its fairest ornament, nor yet disgusting as for some years it has been, in this sprawling, wriggling and slimy filthiness, but everywhere attractive in the purity of its air and the fresh cleanliness of its embowered streets and squares.

With these brief remarks the Committee submit the Report, the publication of which has been entrusted to their care.

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