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The Annual Meeting. 



It lias been di^cidcd by the I5nai-d of 

 Directors to unite the Annual and the 

 Winter Meeting of our Association in 

 one, and make one grand meeting of 

 three days duration. Instead therefore 

 of having a meeting in September, at 

 the time when fruit growers are least 

 able to attend, the next meeting will 

 take ])lace in the winter, the dates to 

 be announced later. 



It has furtlier been decided to hold 

 this meeting in the city of Hamilton. 

 This announc(!ment will be welcome to 

 a large number, for no place could 

 possibly be mon; conveni(Mitly situated 

 to the majority of our fruit growers. 

 Besides it is tlie native city of our 

 Association, for here in the year 1859 

 the first meeting was held with Judge 

 (Jampl)ell as president. 



Notes and Comments. 



Dkstkik'tion ok tiik Elms. — The 

 Srif.titijic American sounds a note of 

 warning concerning the danger to 

 wliich one of our most elegant of park 

 and street trees is likely to become 



subject. In the vicinity of New York 

 and in the Eastern States, the imported 

 elm leaf Ijeetle is becoming very num- 

 eious. and the larva' is destroying the 

 foliage of both European and American 

 elms, especially however preferring the 

 former. If allowed to go on unchecked 

 this enemy will probably destroy these 

 favorite ornamental trees. It seems 

 that kerosene emulsions, carbolic acid 

 solutions, etc., have been tiied witliout 

 .satisfaction owing to the dilHculty of 

 applying them to large trees. 



Destruction of the Purple Fim.mje. 

 bulletin No. 1 Hatch Experiment 

 Station, Mass., reports a beetle whicli 

 is destroying this valuable ornamental 

 shruV). It is the jumping Sumach beetle, 

 (Blapharida rhois), an insect about \ 

 of an inch long, with head and thorax of 

 a dull yellow color, which leaps when 

 di.sturbed somewhat like the habit of 

 the small Hea beetles. The eggs de- 

 posited in masses of thirty or forty 

 al>out the loth of May, hatch out in 

 about two weeks, and proceed to their 

 work of defoliation. The; remedy found 

 most successful was spraying with 

 Paris green and water. 



