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No. 33. Tarus bicolor (Lin.), Tufted Titmouse. 



No. 34. Passer montanns (Lin.), European Tree Sparrow. 



No. 35. Spizella Monticola (Gmel), Tree Sparrow. 



No. 37. Passer domesticus (Lin.), English Sparrow. 



No. 37. Dryobates pubescens (Lim.), Downy Woodpecker. 



REMEDY FOR WOOLLY APHIS. 



The following letter may open up a line of thought: 



Auckland, N. Z., Jan. 30, 1892. 

 L. A. Good7nan, Esq., Sec^y State Horticultural Society, Westjjort, Mo.: 



Sir— I beg to acknowledge the receipt of a copy of your 33d annual report, for 

 which I thank you. 



I notice at pages 207 and 249 report of difficulties from root attacks of Woolly 

 Aphis. Here we have experienced the same trouble and have overcome it. 



A cutting of Northern Spy, or other variety which resists the Aphis, eight or 



nine inches long, is root-grafted under a bud about midway of its length, the whole 



planted in fine soil, leaving one bud above ground. The result is a vigorous growth' 



of fibrous roots and a sturdy shoot from the exposed bud. This in due course is- 



budded, or if it misses, grafted ir later season about nine inches from the ground, 



to prevent the cion forming its own roots. Aphis attacks are then limited to the 



exposed growth, and can easily be seen and treated. This plan is worth universal 



adoption where whole-root grafts are not considered absolutely necessary. 



Always at your service. 



Yours truly, 



A. WOODROFFE. 



ABOUT OLD REPORTS AND NEW ENTERPRISE. 



Skdalia, Mo. May 22 1S92. 

 L. A.Goodman, Esq., Westport Mo. : 



Dear Sir — Please pardon me for not sooner thanking you for the Horticultural 

 reports you sent me last February. You cannot imagine the pleasure a thorough 

 study of those volumes has afforded me. 1 have read and re-read each and every 

 one of them, and more than that, I have persistently hunted up and gathered 

 together, until now 1 have the followingjeports, viz. : 6, 7, S, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 

 — , 16, 17, 18, — , — , 21, 25>, — , — , — , 2G, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33. This gives- 

 me the full proceedings of 22 annual meetings of your Society, land I am now on 

 a still-hunt for the balance, and if you can help me to find any of them, I will be 

 under still greater obligations to you. 



I also have ( in connection with the Horticultural reports ) a complete set of 

 Agricultural reports except the 9th and 16th. I am makinga thorough analytical and 

 and scientific study of the apple'brchard for profit in Missouri ; hence need a full set 

 of the reports. I find quite a number of very valuable letters, essays etc., on this 

 subject in the early reports — some quite learned, and would well bear republica- 

 tion, and of course many worthless in all these reports for the reason that they 

 were notexplicit enough. For instance, the writer would say that a certain apple 

 "would do best on the right kind of soil;" now such an article is worse than 

 nothing, for it costs money to print it and takes up the time of thousands of 

 anxious readers, and gives only disappointment in the end, all because he failed to 

 designate the character, quality and kiud of soil that was the "right kind" for 

 that particular apple, and give his reasons for it. Such articles I would refuse to 

 publish until they had so completed their papers. 



1 would suggest a Ladies' department in your reports, to be filled with recipes 

 of best ways of preparing fruits of all kinds for the table, and have all the gooct 



