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PLATE 11. Ash avenue, Glover Park. 



BLACK LOCUST. 



At Ogallah the black locust has fared badly. Borers evi- 

 dently destroyed the original trees and fire has burned many of 

 the sprouts, the best one now being a double trunk grown 

 from two sprouts, each trunk being twelve feet high, and three 

 inches in diameter at three feet. For many years the borer, 

 known to entomologists as Cyllene robinias, has ravaged this 

 species to such an extent as to make it seem unwise to recom- 



PLATE 12. Black locust at Dodge City Station. 



