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cascades, and several bridges. Two stone lanterns and two stone 
foxes were imported for the garden from Japan, being personally 
selected by Mr. Ushikubo, of Yamanaka & Company, Fifth Ave. 
They arrived during the last week in August. One of the lanterns 
is of the shape known to the Japanese as Okuno-in, the other as 
Yukimi. The Okuno-in lantern was presented to the Garden by 
Messrs. Yamanaka & Co. 
During the summer, pine trees that were growing in the 
Botanic Garden have been trimmed, bent, and fastened into a 
shape fitting them to occupy definite positions in the Japanese 
garden. A more extended and illustrated account of the garden 
will appear later. 
There are several Japanese gardens on private estates in various 
parts of the country, but so far as the writer is informed, there 
does not now exist, in any public park east of the Rocky Moun- 
tains, a real Japanese garden, planned and constructed by 
Japanese, and open free to the public. 
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INSECT AND FUNGOUS PESTS IN THE GARDEN 
DURING 1914 
Constant vigilance has been necessary during 1914 in order to 
keep in check pestiferous insects which have infested the plants 
in the Garden. This has been particularly the case in regard to 
aphids, which appeared in enormous numbers; consisting mainly 
of the green and black varieties. Frequent spraying with a con- 
tact spray was necessary in order to keep them in check; the 
spray used being a solution of nicotine, combined with soap, which 
gives the mixture greater penetrative power, and helps to prevent 
the formation of globules of spray solution. In the conserva- 
tories spraying, fumigation with tobacco stems, and dusting the 
affected plants with tobacco dust, have been the methods of con- 
trol adopted. 
Another pest that belongs to the sucking insect group is the 
white fly. This was probably introduced to the conservatories 
with a shipment of plants received from Florida. The white 
fly is not harmed by nicotine fumigation, but succumbs to hydro- 
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