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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



[November, 



to the cotton plant. A paper on the production 

 of silk, is very full in all the details. The chap- 

 ter on the grape Phylloxera is brief. He shows 

 that the insect can propagate for at least four 

 years under ground without the intervention of 

 the impregnated egg. In regard to the destruc- 

 tion of the Codling Moth, Prof. Riley believes 

 that where it is too much trouble to keep the 

 apples from the worm, there is nothing left but 

 to eat wormy apples. A chapter on Elm Bee- 

 tles, shows that besides the foreign species Gale- 

 ruca Xanthro melaena, the slippery elm is at- 

 tacked by another one, Monocesta coryli. 



Paris green shaken over the trees is effective in 

 destroying them. A borer destroying clover 

 roots is described ; it is Hylesinus trifolii. Also 

 a midge destructive to clover seed. Fuller's 

 rose beetle also has respect paid to it. Besides 

 these there are other chapters on insects of less 

 practical importance. 



Vegetarianism the Radical Cure for 

 Intemperance — By Harriet P. Fowler, I^ew 

 York. M. L. Holbrook & Co. — This is a paper- 

 covered book of eighty pages, and devoted to 

 the cure of intemperance on the plan outlined 

 by the title. 



Horticultural Societies. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



California Horticulturial Society. — A 

 call headed by Dr. Hilgard and signed by a large 

 number of distinguished names will soon result 

 in a California Horticultural Society. 



President Wilder's Address.— Concluded 

 from page 320 : 



Catalogue. — Agreeably to our former custom, 

 I have no doubt our Catalogue will receive 

 special attention in regard to its enlargement 

 and revision. This is one of the most important 

 labors of the Society. Great advantages have 

 already resulted from it to the country and the 

 world, and we owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. 

 Barry, Chairman of the General Fruit Commit- 

 tee, and his associates, for the intelligence, en- 

 terprise, and careful discrimination exercised in 

 the preparation and correction of its columns, 

 which posterity will never forget. This Cata- 

 logue is becoming more and more valuable with 

 every issue, embodying as it does, the ripest ex- 

 perience of the best cultivators in all parts of 

 our county, and classifying as it does our 

 fruits, registering from time to time everything 

 that is valuable, and entering upon its pages 

 everything that is desirable for the various sec- 

 tions of our widely extended continent and reject- 

 ing such fruits as may on careful trial be deemed 

 unworthy of a place in its pages. Into this 

 catalogue is condensed the substance and essence 



of our proceedings and all the various State re- 

 ports, and with every revision it may be ex- 

 pected to approximate nearer and nearer to per- 

 fection. If the Society had rendered no other 

 service than to give to the world its Catalogue of 

 Fruits, it would have fulfilled an important mis- 

 sion. And if I were asked again wliat was the 

 most important measures ever adopted by the So- 

 ciety I should answer as before, — its Catalogue of 

 Fruits. Persevere, then, in this line of our re- 

 searches, and you will embrace in its register 

 every new or old fruit of good quality, with its 

 peculiar adaptation, and whether worthy of ex- 

 tensive cultivation. Persevere, I say, in your 

 noble work, and you will leave to the genera- 

 tions that shall follow you richer memorials 

 than those of marble or of brass, that can only 

 perpetuate in lifeless praise the value of your 

 services on earth. 



Insects and Diseases Injurious to Vegetation. — 

 In regard to insects and diseases which are mak- 

 ing such devastating progress in our own and 

 other lands, it is not necessary for me to en- 

 large, as cultivators are fully aware of the im- 

 portance of the subject. Thanks to Harrris, Ri- 

 ley, Fitch, Glover, Le Baron, Thomas, Packard, 

 and other entomologists, who have devoted their 

 lives to the investigation of this subject, and from 

 whom we have already derived so much benefit 

 in the past, and to whom we look for aid in the 

 future in teaching us how we may arrest the dep- 

 redations of insects, and the remedy for diseases, 



