ARBORICULTURE. 



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OHIO RIVKR KI.OOD — MISSION RESCUE BOAT CARING FOR HOMELESS FLOOD SUFFERERS 



MANY BUGS, AND SOME HUM- 

 BUGS. 



We clip from an exchange the follow- 

 ing item : 



"From the statements of the horticul- 

 turists it would seem that the San Jose 

 scale was about to^ get away with every- 

 thing vegetable except the catalpa spe- 

 ciosa and the 'jimson' weed." 



More truth than humor in this brief 

 comiment of our exchange. The poplar 

 family is preyed upoii by no less than 

 one hundred distinct species O'f insects, 

 and one hundred and fifty varieties of 

 fungoid diseases. 



The oak has galls in profusion, and 

 insects without number. 



The soft maple has untold numbers of 

 scale and other insects, many of them 

 very obnoxious. 



To produce apples the farmer must 

 spray with poisonous compounds, and 

 fight from Januar}' to December to pre- 

 vent insects from gathering his crop. 



There is not a tree, plant or vegetable 

 ])ro'duct in the entire world but which 

 has some one or more insect enemies and 

 various diseases tO' live upon its tissues. 



Oh, yes, one — the "jimson weed." 

 No one cares to investigate that. It 

 smells too loud, and is of too slight 

 value. Then, it is poison. 



The catalpa speciosa has but one in- 

 sect enemy — and that is big enough to 

 be seen and easily destroyed. Besides 

 that we sometimes want to go fishing, 

 and here we look for bait. 



But, seriously, there is no forest tree 

 on earth which has so few enemies as 

 has the catalpa. Its foliage is not taste- 

 ful to the San Jose scale or other ento- 

 mological property. 



