MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 51 
. Flowers. 
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The love of flowers seems to be universal, and the cheapness ot green- 
house plants, and the choice seeds sent out by Jas. Vick, and others, are 
making it very easy to gratify that love. Their cultivation is largely on 
the increase. 
INSECTS IN 1875. 
White Grub. 
The White Grub, the larva of the May Beetle, has caused the most alarm 
both to the farmer and the gardener. Working under ground and out of 
sight, the damage is done before their presence is discovered, and scarcely 
any useful plant has entirely escaped them. Many strawberry beds are 
entirely ruined, and I have noticed some fruit trees seriously injured by 
the bark being eaten from their roots. 
Borer. 
The Flat-headed Borer is at work in the trees that were enfeebled by the 
winter of 1873, and the young and healthy trees do not entirely escape 
them. 
Codling Moth. 
The fruit of the apples and crabs was not as badly injured by the larva 
of the codling moth as usual. Whether their numbers were diminished by 
the severity of last winter, or by some insect friend that is coming to aid 
in exterminating them, I am unable to say. 
Beetles. 
In examining specimens of apples last summer, I frequently found a 
small beetle in them and no worm. I would ask older and more learned 
horticulturists if they have any knowledge of an apple-worm that changes 
to a beetle, or a beetle that infests the fruit. The saw worm, which was 
very destructive the previous year, has disappeared. 
Grape Worm. 
A more than usual quantity of grades were stung by some insect, and 
contained a small white worm. This may prove acause for alarm and great 
watchfulness should be exercised by grape growers to prevent its becom- 
ing a pest by getting numerous. The fruit grower is beset with enemies 
on every side, ranging in size from the microscopic insect to the six-foot 
vagabond boys of our villages. We have asked our Legislature to provide 
us an entomologist; we must ask them to make more efficient laws against 
fruit thieves; and in the meantime let every one remember that ‘ eternal 
vigilance is the price of fruit.” 
