234 Mississippi Valley Horticultural Society. 



crossing arc quite liable to sport in the tubers and give us additional kinds, 

 either earlier or later, and not materially ditierent in other respects. I have 

 originated one that has sported and gives a variegated top, clear white and 

 green, a curiosity and quite ornamental. 



To the originators in grapes our thanks are justly due. It is but a few 

 years since a ripe grape was raised as far north as this. Now we can procure 

 "kinds thit may be successfully grown in nearly all localities. Those who do 

 not hive them should try a few of the earliest hardy sorts. Acclimatization, 

 e.^tra cultivation and quite close pruning are very beneficial in grape cul- 

 ture. The hybridist has been ever ready to use his skill in all branches of 

 pomology. Nothing will escape his notice, and to him we look for grand re- 

 sults in the future. He begins with an invisible dust, and after years of labor 

 reproduces in one the delicate flivor, hardy qualities, fine form and mark- 

 ings of many predecessors. Few realize, when they behold all these beauti- 

 ful products, the vast work it has cost the originator. 



[The following most excellent paper, supplemental to the address of Prof. 

 Forbes on Insects Injurious to Strawberries, published in Volume I. of our 

 Transactions, should have appeared in its proper place in this report, but 

 for the fact that the Prof, could not furnish the cuts, so handsomely illus- 

 trating it, in time for the j^ublishers. Hence its appearance here. 



Secretary.] 



SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT ON INSECTS AFFECTING THE 



STRAWBERRY. 



BY S. A. FORBES, OF NORMAL, ILLINOIS. 



In my ]iaper on Insects Affecting the Strawberrj', published in the last 

 volume of the Transactions of the Society, I gave a more or less complete 

 account of twenty-two species, all known to be injurious to that plant, and I 

 now jiropose to submit a supjilcmentary report upon a number of other 

 Bpccies, some of which were then overlooked, while others have been but 

 lately recognized as enemies of the strawberry. 



Forty species of insects are now known to attack this plant in America, 

 east of thi' Rocky Mountains, with more or loss injurious eilect, besides one 

 milliped<! and one mite not properly to be classed as insects. All the seven 

 insect ordersare rei)re.sented by them except the Diptera, the Neuroptera,and 

 to the latter very few insects injurious to man belong. Four of the forty 

 are Hyinenoptcra (a mason bee, an ant and two saw Hies); thirteen are larva> 

 of Lcpidoptcra, all lielonging to four families of moths, ami fourteen are 

 Cole(>i»tera, rejtresenting the five families Sf^arabieid.-c, Elateridte, Chrysome- 

 lidaj, Curculionidtc and ( Hiorhynchida'. The two Orthoptera are both grass- 

 hop|»prs,and the eight lleiniptera inc liidf a sr-;il<' insect, three plant lice, and 

 fo\ir Ilf'teroptcra. 



