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are planted along the brook, but owing to timely spraying little 
damage has been done. Grasshoppers, rose-bugs, and striped 
cucumber beetle have also appeared but not in any quantity as 
yet. One of the best methods of control for biting insects is to 
dust, or spray, the leaves of the plant attacked, or likely to be at- 
tacked, with an arsenical poison—either paris green or arsenate 
of lead. 
Cut-worms, which have attacked tobacco plants, have fortu- 
nately not been very numerous. A poisoned bait of some kind is 
perhaps the best method of combating these pests. 
Although rabbits can hardly be classed as “insect pests,” yet 
some trouble has been experienced on account of their habit of 
using the Garden as a feeding and breeding ground. Fortunately, 
in the early summer, a nest was discovered containing six young 
rabbits which were disposed of in a way that will prevent them 
from doing any damage in the garden. 
A few borers, probably the apple tree borer, were discovered on 
two or three specimens of Crataegus. These feed upon the inner 
bark of the tree, causing the death of the branch attacked. There 
is really no effective known way of preventing the attacks of 
these insects, as the application of a wash sufficiently strong to 
prevent the insects from gaining an entrance to the hole would 
injure the tree. All that can be done is to kill the borers by the 
insertion of a wire into their burrows as soon as their presence is 
evident. 
A disease which seems likely to cause more trouble in the 
Garden than any other is a rot, possibly of bacterial origin, which 
attacks the roots of herbaceous plants and, unfortunately, has 
appeared in many parts of the Garden. The disease usually shows 
its presence just as the plant reaches the blossoming or fruiting 
stage. It causes the plant to wither, and death usually occurs 
within two or three weeks. The treatment, up to the present, has 
been to thoroughly soak the soil around the roots with a solution 
of potassium permanganate in cases where the plants have not 
been actually killed by the disease, or to sterilize the soil with 
a solution of formaldehyde if the death of the plant has actually 
taken place. 
Another disease, also probably of bacterial nature, has been dis- 
covered on the trilliums, causing the death of the plants attacked. 
