Il6 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



cemeteries. In Germany they have a very pretty custom of 

 referring to the churchyard as "God's acre." In this country it 

 would almost be sacrilege to refer to the churchyard as God's 

 acre for it is too often apparently the God forsaken acre. Now 

 friends, this is not right. Let every member of the Maine State 

 Pomological Society and every friend of the development of 

 rural interests help in lifting up the sentiment for the improve- 

 ment of our rural cemeteries, our rural school grounds where 

 the impressions of our children are formed, making the sur- 

 roundings in which they are placed the most attractive possible, 

 and then carry it to our own homes and make those places such 

 that our children will feel that there is no place under heaven 

 which is quite so attractive as the little old place where they were 

 born. 



TROUBLESOME INSECTS. 



Miss Patch : Almost three-quarters of the insects that are 

 sent to us for identification are mistaken for the gipsy or the 

 brown-tail moths. It is not necessary for me to inform any of 

 you about the danger from either of these insects. You know 

 about that well enough already. But it is quite possible that you 

 are not familiar with these insects in all their stages, and if any 

 of you care to see them from the egg stage to the adult moth, 

 they are in the Experiment Station Building near by. and I shall 

 be glad to show them to you. 



The fact that we combat the brown-tail moth by cutting and 

 burning the winter nests, keeps all orchardists on the alert for 

 the things that look like winter nests of the brown-tail moth. 

 There are a good many of the insects which make nests, which 

 really do not resemble the nest of the brown-tail moth very 

 much, but if you don't happen to be familiar with one it is pos- 

 sible to mistake the others for it. For instance we have the 

 tussock moth, of which the caterpillar in the fall constructs its 

 cocoon upon a leaf, which is very likely to remain upon the 

 tree all winter. The moth which emerges in the fall deposits 

 eggs upon the cocoon and you have that which looks more or 

 less like a nest in the orchard during the winter. That is one 

 of the common things that we look for and destroy during the 



