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REMEDY. 



• I feel certain that either Paris green or London purple would certainly destroy 

 the beetles if applied to the plants as we apply them to destroy the potato beetle 

 or canker-worm. In the use of Paris green, caution is necessary that the article 

 may be genuine. When I hear that the potato beetle and rose chafer grow fat 

 on this poison, I feel sure that the poison is not there, but that some spurious 

 compound is colored and sold for Paris green. 



July Meeting. 



Only a few present. No papers were read. 



President Beal presented a variety of specimens from fruit and forest trees, 

 of blighted leaves. "The cause of this blight is not yet established with any 

 certainty; but he thinks it probable, that in consequence of the rapid growth 

 occasioned by the abundant rain, the leaves and limbs are not sufficiently hard- 

 ened to resist the hot sun." 



August Meeting. 



At the monthly meeting of the Ingham county horticultural society, held at 

 the pioneer room in the new capitol, on Saturday afternoon, August 14, Mrs. 

 C. Goodnoe read an essay on "Flowers and their Mission," and Wm. Gladden 

 one on "Our Rural Highways." Mr. G. advocated a resurvey, by State au- 

 thority, of the older portions of the State, where many of the "witness trees" 

 had wholly disappeared, and the exact boundaries of the highways had become 

 uncertain, for the purpose of establishing permanently those boundaries and 

 thus determining, beyond a doubt where the road-bed ought to be. He 

 said as things were now, in many places there was a change of the road-bed 

 with every change of highway officers, and the roads were kept thereby in poor 

 condition. Many farmers desired to avail themselves of that provision of the 

 highway laws which permitted them to set out shade and ornamental trees 

 eight feet from the outside lines of the highways, but they could not do it with 

 any feeling of certainty that they would be allowed to remain, as long as there 

 was so much doubt as to where the boundaries really were. Mr. Stebbins in- 

 quired if a resurvey would not be likely to require many changes in the loca- 

 tion of fences, and in some instances even of buildings, and so create great 

 embarrassment and much ill feeling. He said that such would have been the 

 result of a resurvey of a certain avenue in the city of Lansing, if that survey 

 had been insisted upon. 



Mr. Gladden said it might not be wise to insist upon it in the cities, but the 

 sooner it was done in the rural districts the sooner the roads would be made 

 good, and their borders shaded and ornamented. 



Prof. Beal said the highways were certainly bad enough, especially the one 

 that led east from the city to the College, and that something ought to be done 

 to make them better. 



The President called attention to some very beautiful bouquets of flowers that 

 had been sent in by Mrs. W. S. George and Mrs. Robert Mann ; also, to a large 

 variety of rare foliage plants from the floral gardens of R. Mann & Son. Mrs. 

 George also sent in several varieties of apples, both summer and winter, the 

 names of which she desired to know. Mrs. D. L. Case presented one variety 

 of apple for a name. Prof. Beal said it was a Primate, one of the very best 

 summer apples for home use. It was of superior quality, did not ripen its fruit 

 all at once, but continued for several weeks. 



