230 Wisconsin State Horticultural Society. 



These are some of the helps that an appropriation would place in 

 our hands. 



Iowa annually gives her Horticultural Society $1,000; Illinois 

 $4,000; Michigan $2,500. 



Minnesota has purchased 116 acres of land, and appropriated 

 $1,000 annually, for the purpose of originating, testing and dis- 

 seminating trees and fruits especially adapted to her wants. 



These are the views, and this the action of our four surrounding 

 sister states. It only remains for us to fall hopelessly behind, or 

 to ask for and receive aid at your hands; consequently we make 

 this request with enthusiastic love and zeal for our calling, with 

 full belief that our state resources and interests are second to none, 

 and that every dollar expended will return to her an hundred fold. 



INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE APPLE AND GRAPE. 



Dr. P. H. HOY, Racine. 



Officers and Members of the Wisconsin Horticultural Society: 

 I come before you by invitation to speak of some of those in- 

 sects that are injurious to agriculture and horticulture, more 

 especially those infesting the apple and grape. I shall speak only 

 of those insects which I have in these cases before me, brought 

 that you might examine them at your pleasure. 



Although good engravings are of great value, yet, if they were 

 ever so accurately executed, they would still fall far short of the 

 reality. I, therefore, will not describe the perfect insect, but call 

 your attention to these specimens, which are conspicuously labeled 

 and so arranged that you can distinguish them at a glance. 



Foes to Apple. 



The American Lappet Moth, Gastropacha Americana. The 

 food plant of this moth is the apple tree, on the leaves of which 

 the larvre feed. Where the eggs are deposited, and just how long 

 they exist in the larval state, is unknown. The life history of this 

 moth remains to be studied. The caterpillar, when fully grown, 

 measures two and a half by one-half inches. The upper part is 

 gray, variegated by irregular white spots, and ornamented with 



