292 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Send Your Fruit to Cold Storage for the Winter Meetikg.— 

 Cold storage will be provided gratis, as the past two years, for fruit 

 intended for exhibition at the next annual meeting- of this society, 

 Dec. 7th. A liberal premium list will be prepared which will furnish 

 adequate compensation for all the trouble involved. Any variety 

 that can not be kept safely in the cellar till that date may be sent to 

 this cold storage for preservation. Early summer vairieties of 

 apples, if gathered while still firm, can be kept easily, and even 

 plums will retain their firmness if gathered before they begin to 

 soften at all. Labels to be used in sending this fruit can be had on 

 application of the secretary. Send forward whatever you have, ap- 

 ples, plums, pears, peaches or grapes, and help make this the best 

 show of our society. 



Store Early Apples and Plums for the State Fair.— Arrange- 

 ments similar to those of last year have been made for placing in 

 cold storage specimens of apples, plums, etc., ripening so early that 

 they will not keep for exhibition at the state fair with the ordinary 

 conveniences at home. Fruit intended to be stored for this purpose 

 should be gathered while still firm, each specimen wrapped care- 

 fully in paper and packed to prevent bruising and sent by ex- 

 press at once. There will be no charge for storage, and all fruit 

 so stored and properly marked will be delivered at the fair grounds 

 without expense early the first morning of the fair. Labels to be 

 used for this purpose, to fasten on the packages, will be furnished 

 on application to Secretary A. W. Latham, 207 Kasota Block, Minne- 

 apolis. There shovild be an extra full exhibit of fruit this fall, as 

 the whole hall is to be used for horticulture, and it is a pretty 

 large space. Send for labels at once and forward the fruit as it 

 matures. 



Specimen Insects Received from Mrs. J. W. Ray, JvIinneapolis. 

 — The little moths inclosed in the bottle are usually known as the 

 eight-spotted forester, the specific name being Alypia octo-macu- 

 lata. This moth is common throughout eastern and central United 

 States, both on wild and cultivated vines, and is known principally 

 through its injury to Virginia creeper and grape vines in city or 

 village gardens. The caterpillar of this inoth is brown, marked 

 with black dots, and it is sometimes so abundant as to completely 

 defoliate the grape vines. They become nearly an inch and a half 

 in length when full grown; then they bore into any soft or rotten 

 wood and pupate there, emerging eventually as very active little 

 moths. The caterpillars may be easily killed by any of the arsen- 

 ites, Paris green, for instance, or by pyrethrum, the so-called Persian 

 insect powder, which has the advantage of being harmless to man. 

 Pyrethrum should be mixed with water, two ounces to the gallon 

 and sprayed on the vines. It is most effective while the caterpillars 

 are young. E. B. Forbes, 



Assistant to Dr. Lugger. 



