28 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1883. 



Peach, — in the nature of a defiance to produce a better ! But 

 how is your pride brought low, when some blockhead, — fresh 

 from a logging camp, imagines that you have been felling the 

 round world, at its base, and are preparing to realize upon its 

 stum page. 



Your co-operation in facilitating a reform in this matter of con- 

 fused nomenclature, will be readily accorded. But let us be 

 sure, first, that it is a real amendment ! and not, simply, a change 

 that shall go to swell an already overgrown dictionary of syno- 

 nymes. Why is not Nonesuch descriptive, and also distinctive ? 



At the second day's session, an Essay was read by Professor 

 C. Y. Rile}^ the justly celebrated Entomologist, entitled " Recent 

 Advances in Horticultural Entomology." In the course of his 

 remarks, the learned Professor alluded to many new and inter- 

 esting discoveries respecting the best means for the destruction 

 of the pests of the pomologist ; and exhibited apparatus for the 

 proper distribution of various insecticides. He recommended 



*'aD emulsion of kerosene and sour milk, in the proportion of two (2) 

 parts of the oil to one (1) of the milk. The mixture should be thor- 

 oughly churned ; after which the compound, thus formed, will not re- 

 solve itself into its elements, no matter how long a time it is kept. 

 Mixed with about twenty (20) times its bulk of water, and dispersed, 

 in a fine spray, over the bark and foliage of trees, it will destroy the 

 insects that are so injurious to our fruit and shade trees." 



Professor Riley was heard with close attention ; and, when he 

 had concluded, the Society tendered him a unanimous vote of 

 thanks. The use of Kerosene, as an Insecticide, has been the 

 subject of more or less successful experiment, in England, for 

 some years past. The trouble, hitherto, has been, to retain the 

 oil in permanent suspense: a mere solution of the oil with water, 

 quickly .resolving into its component parts. If the formula of 

 Professor Riley proves effective, upon trial ; and its simplicity is 

 greatly in its favor ; there will be no excuse ; may we not trust 

 — no toleration ! for that sloth and slovenliness which suffers 

 defoliation and spoil from canker-worms, codling-moth or cur- 

 culio, because of the labor involved in checking their ravages. 

 The proposed remedy, or rather method of prevention, is the 

 cheapest possible ; the privilege of playing from a garden engine 



