416 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



A Russian mulberry hedge, with an evergreen belt north of it and 

 twenty feet at least distant, the mulberry to be cut away when not 

 -needed, will protect any stockyard and repay the expense many fold. 



In any selection of trees for ornament or forest planting, the white 

 ash should not be forgotten. It is hardy, easily cultivated and beauti- 

 ful. We are so far greatly pleased with the Catalpa. We cannot pass 

 any of our groves without stopping to admire, and notice travelers all 

 turn their heads to that side of the road. 



They will grow on the slightest provocation. Planted in rows, five 

 feet apart, they will in two years shade the ground completely and 

 smother out weeds in three. 



As to their value for posts, we can only rely on what others tell 

 us, with an uncertain allowance to be made against any timber grow- 

 ing on prairie soil. 



The poplars and willows brought from Russia by Prof. Budd are 

 full of promise. They grow as easily as Catalpas and grow readily 

 from cuttiugs. The laurel-leaved willow, salix lauri-folia^ is the most 

 beautiful of all willows and should have a place on every lawn and in 

 every grove. 



But by all means plant groves if you would give comfort to your 

 family, beauty to the landscape, value to your farm, thrift to your 

 stock and dollars to your bank account. 



A grove of valuable trees is a monument to your memory more 

 durable than marble. 



STONE FRUITS. 



A PEACH TREE ENEMY. 



The Elm-bark Beetle, Phloiotrihiis liminaris^ which formerly con- 

 fined its devastations to the elm principally, to-day attacks also fruit 

 trees, especially peaches and cherries, and causes considerably more 

 injury than is generally supposed. I noticed lately a small peach 

 orchard, every tree of which was infested, and the stems thickly cov- 

 ered with gum, while the previous year all were healthy and bore a 

 crop of fine fruit. It has been stated that these insects attack only 



