CALENDAR FOR JUNE. 237 
INSECTS—The insects thatare liable to be most troublesome to our 
fruits at this season of the year are the curculio, which attacks the 
plum fruits, the tent-caterpillar and the currant worm. 
For plum curculio I have found nothing so satisfactory as jarring 
the trees early in the morning about every other day and gathering 
and destroying the beetles. Thisis not a difficult matter and will 
havea great effect in preventing injury to the plums. 
The tent-caterpillar is unusually numerous this year. The forest 
tent-caterpillar is now stripping basswood and other forest trees of 
their foliage, and the orchard tent-caterpillar is generally very 
numerous among apple, plum andcherry trees. Where they are not 
too numerous and the nests can be easily reached, the tent-caterpil- 
lar is most easily destroyed by gathering the nests when the worms 
are at home, which is generally about the middle of the day in 
pleasant weather and in wet weather they stay at home all day. 
Where this does not seem practicable, the best remedy for these 
caterpillars, and in fact all other insects that eat foliage, is to spray 
with Paris green and water at the rate of one pound of Paris green 
to 200 gallons of water. If this material is to be used on plum trees, 
it should be used at the rate of about one pound of Paris green to 
100 gallons of water, and to this should be added one pound of quick 
lime, which will neutralize the arsenous acid contained in the Paris 
green and prevent its injuring the plum foliage, which seems to be 
especially susceptible to injuries of this kind. 
The currant worm has put in its appearance and will be found on 
the under side of the older leaves of currant and gooseberry bushes 
where it has made holes through to the surface. On a small scale 
it may be desirable to gather and destroy these leaves with the 
worms on them, but where the worms become abundant and are 
pretty generally distributed over the bushes some poison must be 
used. The most popular remedy is white hellebore, used at the 
rate of one ounce to a gallon of water. The hellebore may also be 
used dry or mixed with flour and dusted onbybellows. Paris green 
and water will also be found a satisfactory remedy, used in about 
the same proportion as for the potato bug. 
Among the things that have looked especially pretty during the 
month of May are the following: The old shrubs such as the lilacs, 
honeysuckles and snowball have been more than usually vigorous 
and pretty, but, in addition to these, the tulips, which have now 
been with us, including the early and late kinds, for about four 
weeks, have done especially well. The native sheepberry is just 
now in its glory and makes a very fine, large shrub. The Kleagnus, 
with its gray foliage, is now in pretty contrast to the deep green of 
the grass and to most of our shrubs, The flowering almond was a 
mass of beautiful white flowers but is now gone. The flowers of 
the Caragana, too, have disappeared, but the shrubs still preserve 
their freshness and vigor and are very desirable for variety. 
The Van Houtii spirea is as good as ever and just now in full 
flower and makes a gorgeous display. The irises are also very 
showy, the peonies are about three feet high and full of buds, but 
will not be open before the middle of next month, with the excep- 
tion of the shrub peony, which has been in flower for about one 
week. Our native red-berry elder produced its large snowball clus- 
ters of flowers in great abundance the latter part of April, and the 
common elder is just beginning to show its flower clusters. Rubus 
deliciosus, with its white rose-like flowers,has been in bloom for 
about ten days and seems to be gaining in popularity. The ever- 
greens are now at their prettiest, and the new growth in its fresh 
light green shades is almost as pretty as our flowering shrubs. 
