434 Journal of Agricidture. [ii July, 1910. 



In our own State, we have reason to be grateful to such men as Baron 

 Von Mueller, Messrs. Hodgkinson, Guilfoyle, Doran, and many others 

 who have planted for us delightful gardens and shady streets. We shall 

 be gratified exceedingly if this article pushes forward and helps the good 

 work of tree-planting on streets and roads. Our school children are 

 now .being taught that trees are something more than encumbrances on the 

 land, that must at once be destroyed by ring-barking. 



In this connexion it is well to point out that the State Forests Depart- 

 ment, in an unassuming way, has been growing and distributing hundreds 

 of thousands of seedling trees to Councils, Churches, State schools, public 

 institutions, &c. One hears a good deal from time to time of successful 

 arbor days. It is not generally understood that, but for the generosity 

 of the State Forests Department, there would be practically no arbor days 

 in Victoria. 



With the gradual spread of arboricultural knowledge amongst both 

 young and old, we look forward with confidence to the dawn of a better 

 day, when trees will be universally regarded as es.sential to human existence, 

 comfort, and happiness, and therefore duly reverenced as one of the best 

 and noblest gifts of the Creator. 







THE GENTINE LOOFST FUNGUS. 



(Empusa Grylli, Fres.). 

 D. McAlpini\ Vegetable Pathologist. 



While investigating the plague of locusts in New South Wales during 

 1907, Mr. Froggatt found a large number clinging to the grass and weeds, 

 with their legs spread out, dead and dry. They had crawled up to the 

 top and remained there long after they were dead. For six months, swarms 

 of them had been devouring the grass and herbage, and considerable loss 

 had been caused by their ravages. 



These plague locusts are popularly called " grasshoppers," and their 

 scientific name is CEdaleus sencgaleiisis, Kraus, being originally described 

 from Eastern Africa. Some of the dead locusts were forwarded to me by 

 Mr. Froggatt for examination, and on placing them in a moist chamber, a 

 fawn coloured furry fungus i)rotruded from between the joints of the 

 abdomen and produced the various reproductive bodies shown in the plate. 

 The fungus was determined as Empusa grylli , Fres. and is recorded in the 



