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THE FORESTER. 



August, 



Summer Meeting Notes. 



Insect Enemies of Trees. 



The following letter from A. D. Hop- 

 kins, Vice Director and Entomologist of 

 the West Virginia Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, Morgantown, W. Va., was 

 read at the Summer Meeting at Los 

 Angeles at the session of July 20 : 



"It was my intention to prepare a 

 paper for the Summer Meeting of the 

 Association, but the accumulated duties 

 during my absence of some ten weeks, 

 conducting investigations for the Divi- 

 sion of Entomology, United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture, in the forests 

 of the Northwest, have left no time for 

 me to do so. 



" I desire to say, however, that while 

 there is not much agitation of the forest 

 question in West Virginia, the subject is 

 being studied here, and some of the 

 problems are receiving especial atten- 

 tion, the results of which will form the 

 subject of a paper for a subsequent 

 meeting. 



"I also wish to suggest that insect 

 enemies of trees should receive more 

 attention from students and investigators 

 of forest problems. Insects are vastly 

 more destructive to forests and for- 

 est products, in their direct attacks and 

 influences, than any one, but a special- 

 ist in this particular branch of study, 

 can conceive ; and when we take into 

 consideration the inter-relations of in- 

 sects with the diseases of trees and 

 forest fires in wide spread devastations 

 of timber, the subject presents itself as 

 one of the important problems in forest 

 inquiry ; yet, so little is generally known 

 of this subject, or its importance is so 

 little appreciated, that one seldom sees 

 reference to it in the writings of our 

 principal specialists on forest questions. 



" The possibilities of preventing losses 

 from insect invasions and their destruc- 

 tive influences, through a better and 

 more general knowledge of the subject, 

 are far greater than is supposed. In 

 fact, as we become more familiar with 

 the peculiar habits of some of the 



destructive insects and the relation of 

 agricultural and lumbering methods to 

 their destructive ravages, quite simple 

 and practical preventives and remedies 

 are suggested, which, if put into prac- 

 tice, will prevent the loss of some of 

 our most valuable forest resources. 



"It is therefore earnestly hoped that 

 the members of the Association will take 

 some interest in this phase of the forest 

 question and stimulate inquiry along this 

 line by noting and reporting unhealthy 

 conditions of forests resulting from 

 causes other than fire. The writer will 

 gladly assist in this inquiry by direct 

 correspondence, or through the columns 

 of The Forester. 



"Sincerely regretting that I cannot 

 attend the Los Angeles meeting and 

 take part in its proceedings, I am, 

 " Very truly yours, 



"A. D. Hopkins." 



Sight-Seeing on TalIy=Hos. 



A large number of delegates to the 

 convention of the American Forestry 

 Association, under the guidance of Park 

 Superintendent Garey, visited several of 

 the parks yesterday. The party drove 

 through Elysian Park in tally-hos, and 

 examined closely the botanical garden 

 there, where trees are growing that can be 

 found in few other places in this country. 



The delegates were particularly inter- 

 ested in the experiments the park de- 

 partment is making to grow trees and 

 plants sent here from the tropics, some 

 of which have been more successful than 

 was expected. There has not been time 

 enough to accomplish anything with the 

 seeds and slips received here from 

 Manila, although some are growing. 



The different varieties of trees were 

 shown the visitors, and their uses fully 

 explained. After visiting Elysian Park 

 the party went to East Los Angeles Park 

 and inspected the plants in the hothouse 

 there, some of which are of a variety 

 to be found in no similar place in this 

 country. Los Angeles Times. 



