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every year hundreds of ornamental trees and shrubs go on to 

 the brush pile. What a change a little effort on the part of 

 those interested might make. 



Applied to the home, these principles carried out would add 

 greatly to the attractiveness and air of prosperity of the place. 

 It would also add much to the enjoyment of its occupants. It 

 would provide a stretch of green lawn reaching away from the 

 house, with glimpses of most desirable views in the distance 

 from most frequented windows. It would afford, by the mass- 

 ing of groups about the boundaries, a proper setting for the 

 house. It would, at the same time, afford ample opportunity 

 for love of individual trees, shrubs and flowers. In a word, 

 it w'ould often transform a harsh, forbidding scene into a beau- 

 tiful and inviting picture. 



The President : We have another lecture, an illustrated one, 

 but whether it will be as pleasing as this one we have just had 

 I cannot say, but we ought to get considerable instruction out 

 of it to carry home. This is to come from Prof. Britton of the 

 Experiment Station of New Haven, on "Injurious Insects." 



'* Injurious Insects/' 



By Prof. ]V. E. Brittoti, State Entomologist . 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: This question of 

 injurious insects is a very important one, and one that is grow- 

 ing yearly more important. This afternoon our president told 

 you of a large apple tree which never had been cultivated. 

 He might also have said that the tree was never sprayed. It 

 was very old, but we do not believe that the lack of care 

 increased its longevity. As a matter of fact, we had fewer 

 insect pests at the time that this tree was coming to maturity 

 than we do at the present day. It might be well for me to pause 

 for a moment here, to say that these pests are increasing con- 

 stantly with the progress of our civilization. As our com- 

 mercialism has grown, and we are sending out steamships and 

 railroad trains all over the globe, and shipping produce from one 

 end of the earth to the other, it has become a very easy matter 

 for these pests to find lodging in freight, and upon these trains 

 and steamships be carried from one part of the world to the 

 other. That is probably the reason why pests are more numer- 



