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Excerpt from An Essay Upon the Wheat-Fly, and Some Species Allied to It <p>The first distinct and unequivocal account of the wheat-y, of which I am aware, is that given by Mr. Christopher Gullet, in 1771, in a letter to Dr. Matty On the effects of elder in preserving growing plants from the insects and flies, which letter was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society the following year. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.