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Terminology of the Grape Vine. — At the annual meeting of the Illinois 

 Horticultural Society a committee, consisting of Messrs. J. E. Starr, Dr. Warder, 

 Dr. Spalding, Dr. Hull, Pres. Flagg, Mr. Shepherd, and Prof Burrill, was ap- 

 pointed to determine and settle the terminology of the different parts of the 

 grape vine. We give below their report, which was adopted by the society, and 

 has since been adopted by the Missouri Valley Grape Grower's Association, the 

 Mississippi Valley Grape Grower's Association, and the Alton Horticultural 

 Society. 



Roots. — That part of the vine growing below the surface of the ground. 



Stem. — The main stock below the branches. 



Arm. — A branch permanently trained in a horizontal position. 



Shoot. — Green wood. This consists of fruit shoots, young canes, and 

 suckers. 



Lateral. — A branch from a shoot. 



Cane. — A ripened shoot, grown from the stem, arm, or spur. 



Spur. — A cane cut short. 



Joint or Node. — The enlarged part, whence come buds, leaves, and tendrils. 



Internode. — The part between the joints. 



Tendril. — The twining support. 



Report of the Missouri State Entomologist. — We have received 

 from Charles V. Riley, State Entomologist, his Third Annual Report on the 

 Noxious, Beneficial, and other Insects of the State of Missouri, made to the 

 State Board of Agriculture, pursuant to an appropriation for this purpose from 

 the legislature of the state. It commences with an account of some of the 

 snout beetles mo'st injurious to fruits and vegetables, the first of which is the 

 common plum curculio. It has heretofore been a doubtful point whether this 

 insect produced more than one brood in a season, but Mr. Riley has satisfied 

 himself, by a carefully conducted experiment, that it is single-brooded. He has 

 also discovered that, contrary to the usual belief, it is nocturnal rather than 

 diurnal, that it is far more active at night than at day, and flies readily at night. 

 This fact has a most important practical bearing. 



Mr. Riley recommends the Hull curculio-catcher as, though not entirely satis- 

 factory, the best means of destroying the curculios. Several proposed improve- 

 ments on it are described. He also urges fruit growers to give Mr. Ransom's 

 trapping process a good trial, and to report the results. After these snout 

 beetles, about a dozen insects injurious to the grape vine are described, and these 

 are followed by the Colorado Potato Beetle, and other injurious, beneficial, and 

 innoxious insects. 



We cannot speak too highly of the information given in this and similar re- 

 ports. Every cultivator should read them, and act upon the directions for 

 destroying the pests described. It is only by the universal dissemination of 

 such knowledge that we can hope to awaken cultivators to the importance of the 

 work, and teach them how to do it ; but by the diffusion of such knowledge we 

 may hope ultimately for the extermination of these pests, which, in the aggregate, 

 inflict upon our crops such enormous injury. 



