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forced to surround insect eggs with red bean shaped galls and grass, 

 stalk, branch, twig and leaf, and oak apple grew and thickened at 

 their behest, giving up stored nutriment to nourish the trespassing 

 pupa. 



Those interesting insects, the leaf tent miners, claimed our closest 

 inspection. They were much at home among the oaks, red maples 

 and locusts their little brown parchment-like blotches giving loca- 

 tion of another insect's palace within the leaf structure.* 



The butterfly field was studded with many stars and those of 

 first magnitude included the black monarch, the sapphire mail, vice- 

 roy, tortoise, swallow tail and tiger tail, red admiral, painted lady, 

 the mourning cloak, the comma and the yellow asterias.' 



As a rule the insect world is an orphaned world. It is true the 

 monarch and tortoise butterflies and a few other species follow the 

 birds to the South in large flocks, some locusts bury in the ground, 

 notably the seventeen year cicadas, and a few butterflies, for example 

 the mourning cloak, hibernate in hollow tree or under buildings, but 

 the great mass of struggling, warring insect life, when its purpose 

 of scavenging, propagating and protecting its unborn offspring is 

 accomplished, joins that endless, ever moving procession of the passers 

 into the beyond and an orphaned progeny takes up and repeats the 

 endless order of being. 



Our Rosarium. 



"Where you tend a rose, my lad, 

 A thistle cannot grow.'' 



A patch three rods square was given up to the queen of flowers. 

 Hardy perpetuals were the favorites but a bed of teas bloomed 

 the entire summer even to early December, and, sheltered and pro- 

 tected, wintered finely. Tree roses, as well as tree peonies, cornered 

 the rosarium. 



The same three rod patch was a battle ground whereon raged 

 our fiercest combats with the insect world, but eternal vigilance 

 gave an unrivaled harvest of form and color. 



Pruning and budding shrubs in tree form we tried out, notably 

 in the rose, azalea., and hydrangea, but soon concluded that a tree's 

 a tree and a shrub's a shrub, which resulted in better balanced growth, 

 flower, and fruit. 



A Semi-Tropical Corner. 



The very word tropics suggests gleaming sunshine, refreshing 

 shade, bright colored birds and delicately perfumed flowers, and in 

 our arboretum were corners where every plant, as well as its environ- 



*Close scrutiny of stream, branch and trunk revealed the cylindrical stone house of the 

 caddis worm, the shell palace of the bark louse, the wooden burrow of the bumble bee, and 

 the leaf mansion of the cherry leaf twig tier who builds a high class dwelling as Insect dwellings 

 rank, homes doubtless as satisfying to them a the most pretentious dwellings of the race of giants 

 that crush them under foot. The "dog eat dog" spirit of insect life, that indomitable 

 courage in bee, ant. flea, hornet, and mosquito, that neither cringes before nor fears its betters > 

 if unchecked would soon depopulate the earth. 



