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main trunk has been yinlKd by lili,L;lit, tlu-re is a 

 marked tendency to the production of vijL;orous, rai)id- 

 growing shoots from a point just below the girded 

 area. These sprouts may be few in numlier or they 

 may be so numerous as t<i make a conspicuous clump, 

 and they may occur on the branches, the main trunk, 

 or at the base of the tree. These sprouts may be killed 

 in turn by the blight, but thc\- sometimes persist for 

 several years. \\'hen the}- persist their age serves to 

 tell the time at which the girdling was completed. 

 The general effect of blight is to kill the part of twigs 

 or branches beyond the lesion. The occurrence of 

 trunk lesions is most serious, since with the comple- 

 tion of girdling the entire tree mu.st succuml). In 

 trees which have suffered from top infections for sev- 

 eral years, the occurrence of the blight-killed branches 

 sometimes gives rise to an effect called "stag-head." 

 The wood of blight-killed trees is injured but little 

 as a direct result of the disease, but if left standing- 

 it soon begins to deteriorate as a result of the work 

 of insects and various siiecies of wood-destroying 

 fungi. 



(To be continued in Scl^tcmber issue.) 



HICKORY TREES THREATENED. 



Con-imissioner Huson, of the State Department of Ag- 

 riculture, New York, is receiving considerable information 

 relative to a serious outbreak of the hickory bark borer in 

 the vicinity of New York and on Long Island. This borer 

 is the principal cause of the death of thousands of hickorv 

 trees. The greatest infested area is in the northern part of 

 New York City, in \\'estchester county, in Queens and 

 Nassau counties, though much injury has been observed 

 throughout Suffolk county, particularly along the north- 

 ern shore of the island. The area of infested hickories is 

 about the same as the territory where the chestnut trees 

 have succun-ibed to the attacks of the chestnut bark 

 disease. 



\'ow that the chestnuts have so nearly disappeared and 

 the fact that the hickory trees are also threatened with en- 

 tire e.Ktermination because of the hickory borer, requests 

 have been made by many citizens that the Commissioner 

 of .\griculture should e.verci^c such authority as the law 

 gives him in the control of this pest. That the hickory 

 trees that have not been attacked may be saved, or in a 

 very large measure protected, has been proved in the Zoo- 

 logical Park and in the parks of Brooklyn. The able su- 

 perintendents of these two parks have for the last two or 

 three vears been cutting out every infested hickory tree, 

 and in that way the other trees are found at this time to 

 be free from insects and the\- have been saved from cer- 

 tain destruction. 



The hickory borer eats its way into the bark of the 

 hickorv trees in mid-summer. Eggs are laid which hatch 

 and the grubs feed in peculiar galleries in the bark and 

 between the wood and the bark in such a way as to fut 

 off the flow of the sap, thus causing the death of the tr^s. 

 These grubs are in these galleries at this time of the V'car 

 and will remain so until about the middle of June, tt is, 

 therefore, necessarv that the infested trees be cut and de- 

 stroyed before that time in order to prevent further wide- 

 spread of the insects. The commissioner has been ])roni- 

 ised the heartv co-operation rif many influential and in- 

 terested citizens in this movement, and agents of this de- 

 partment are on the ground with authority to inspect trees 

 to ascertain the limit of infestation, and they have been 

 directed to mark such trees as should be removed and 

 destroyed at once. 



All gardeners are requested to inform the departn-ient of 

 the location of infested hickory trees and to extend to the 

 inspectors such assistance as may be desired. > 



Announcement 



M' 



•ESSRS. JAMES 

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 COMPANY of London, 

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LONDON 



ENGLAND 



BRANCH OFFICE: 

 TORONTO. CANADA, 



CARTERS TESTED SEEDS. INC.. 

 Ill CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BLDG.. 



BOSTON, MASS. 



