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while the berries are on the vines, such applications are not advis- 

 able. 



Mr. Galusha said that he had been troubled by this insect for sev- 

 eral years, but that it was not as bad last year as before. They had not 

 seriously affected his vines in any season until after the main crop had 

 been gathered ; and he thought the remedies mentioned by Dr. LeBaron 

 could be applied at a time when the insects were still prevalent, and not 

 sacrifice more than a quarter of the crop. He suspected, however, that 

 there was a parasitic enemy at work at this pest, and would endeavor to 

 ascertain the facts during the coming summer. The worm was described 

 as five-eighths of an inch loiig, white, with a reddish-brown head ; it rolls 

 the leaf about it, forming a loose, roomy inclosure. 



Mr. Lukins had had considerable sad experience with this worm ; it 

 works while the strawberries are ripening, and therefore Paris green solu- 

 tion could not be applied. He had noticed no diminution of its ravages. 



The Secretary read the following paper : 



THE HONEY hOCUST—i GLED/TSC///A TRIACANTHUS.) 



BY EDWARD H. BEEBE, GENEVA, KANE CO., ILL. 



All the facts in regard to the growth and habit of this beautiful forest 

 tree — a native of our State — seem to be as yet undetermined. Last spring 

 the question was discussed in the Prairie Pa}'7ner, " Does Honey Locust 

 Sprout?" Mr. Budd, of Iowa, stated that it did not sprout. "A Sub- 

 scriber," writing from Edwardsville, 111., states that it "does throw up 

 veritable sprouts." Here are two direct contradictory statements. May 

 not both be true ? And that the difference in the habit of the tree is due 

 to a difference in the locality and soil. " Subscriber " says, " My experi- 

 ence with the timber is from observation. I have some posts now that 

 have rotted off" inside of four years. I have seen Honey Locust posts 

 sound and fresh after being in the ground over ten years, and have no 

 doubt that they must have lasted in many instances from twenty even to 

 twenty-five years. My observation teaches me that Honey Locust, to be 

 valuable for fence posts, should be grown upon high, dry clay land, and 

 that those grown upon wet soils will not last long enough to pay for set- 

 ting the posts." If these statements are true, we see that the durabilit}- 

 of the timber is affected by the soil upon which it is grown. May not its 

 tendency to sprout in some localities, be due to the same cause ? Eighteen 

 months ago, I purchased my present residence, in the village of Geneva, 

 in Kane Co., 111. The lot contains over two acres. I found growing upon it 

 fifteen Honey Locust trees, most of them having been planted thirty-five 

 years ago. Making inquiries of previous occupants and neighbors, I was in- 

 formed that the trees had never been known to throw up sprouts. In Oct. 

 1872, we cut down five of the trees. Two of them, seventeen inches in 

 diameter, were cut two feet above the surface ; the other three were cut 

 at the surface. From none of the trees thus cut down have sprouts 

 started ; the soil is dry. There are some other facts in regard to this tree 



