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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



planted with great ease, flourishes in 

 every soil, and seems to be quite free 

 from the depredations of insect ene- 

 mies. It certainly gives promise of 

 beini^' a most valuable acquisition to 

 our list of honey-producing })lants. We 

 believe it can be procured from nursery- 

 men at a reasonable rate and in large 

 quantities. 



ADOLPH STRAUCH. 



Whoever has visited Spring Grove 

 Cemetery — that beautiful triumph of 

 skill in landscape gardening which is 

 the pride of Cincinnati — will surely re- 

 member Adolph Strauch, whose genius 

 conceived and whose skill perfected the 

 beautiful pictures in trees and grassy 

 slopes and lakelets which abound at 

 Spring (rrove. He was the presiding 

 genius of this gem of rural beauty, and 

 the conceptions of his mind here found 

 embodiment in broad avenues, majestic 

 trees, gleaming water stretches, and 

 verdant lawns, so interwoven and 

 blended that every turn brought to 

 view some new picture of surpassing 

 loveliness. To him America is in- 

 debted as the originator of the Land- 

 scape Lawn System for cemeteries, 

 which he gradually developed, patiently 

 overcoming the prejudices and customs 

 which opposed his efforts, and at length 

 demonstrating its great superiority, so 

 that his rare taste and skill have been 

 fully acknowledged by all, and his 

 name stands, by common consent, by 

 the side of the great masters of art in 

 landscape creation. 



It was the privilege of the writer not 

 only to enjoy these creations of his 

 masterly skill, but to grasp the hand 

 and look in the face of the man whose 

 brain had conceived this beautiful 

 grove, and to find in him a spirit quite 

 in harmony with the beauty with 

 which he was surrounded. It was a 

 pleasure to converse with him, and to 



note how much he enjoyed the oppor- 

 tunity of contributing to the gratifica- 

 tion of his visitors as they stood in 

 mute contemplation of some charming 

 prospect, or pointed out the effect of 

 some skilful grouping. But he is gone, 

 gone from the scenes he created, gone 

 trom the work in which he delighted. 

 He slee{)S in the most charming spot 

 within the grove, the island, which the 

 Directors had donated to him in recog- 

 nition of his services. Spring Grove 

 Cemeterv is his monument. 



THE CODLIN MOTH. 



Some time ago a wiiter in the Bruce 

 Herald, over the signature of Pro Bono 

 Publico, said : 



In 1878, when my apples and crabs 

 were much injured, being desirous to 

 make myself more fully acquainted with 

 the habits of the Codlin Moth, I collected 

 and opened several crabs which were in- 

 jured by the larvae of the moth. I took 

 twelve of those and placed them in two 

 crabs, then I burnt some earth in the 

 stove till I knew all insect life was de- 

 stroyed, then I damped it a little, and put 

 about three inches of it into a glass jar. 

 On the top of the earth in the jar I placed 

 the crabs, in which I had put the larvae, 

 I then covered the jar with a piece of 

 paper which 1 pierced with a pin. They 

 soon left the crabs and went into the earth 

 and were formed into chrysalis. They 

 did not remain long in that state when 

 they came out the full-grown moth. I 

 then found they were very partial to water 

 sweetened with honey. In 1879 1 placed 

 a gallon mustard jar in my orchard, in 

 which I had some water sweetened with 

 honey, in that I caught large numbers of 

 them, and also many bee-moths. I found 

 in that year my apples and crabs were not 

 so much injured as they had previously 

 been. In 1880 I placed jars so prepared 

 again, and in two nights I caught about a 

 hundred moths, so that very little of my 

 fruit was injured, and all who saw my 

 orchard were quite surprised to see what 

 they called my fine fruit, and so free from 

 the ravages of the moth. I expect next 



