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The hickory tree is not only valuable for the nuts it produces, 
but also for shade and for lumber. If used immediately, the 
attacks of the bark- “e do not Be eu injure it, but the wood 
is very perishable when left standing. Dead trees soon become 
both the larval form and the mature form of this insect may be 
destroyed in the affected trees during the winter season, or 
before the beetles escape in the spring very much simplifies the 
matter of control. It has been repeatedly proven that by cutting 
out all infected trees in a given locality the number of insects 
may be so reduced as to fall an easy prey | to their pheas enemies. 
It is the plan to publish a the hickory 
bark-borer in the June number of the. JouRNAL.—W. A. M 
ing is making an early start, as manifested by the un- 
Guin early appearance of the flowers. A walk around the 
grounds of the Garden on March 18 disclosed the following 
com uv Ss, of Europ 
hat one 
Minor, the latter having been in bloom for over a week; the 
common snowdrop, Galanthus nivalis, and the giant snowdrop, 
G. Elwesii, ee ally in constant bloom since January; the 
glory-of-the-snow, Chionodoxa Luciliae, its flowers of glorious 
blue just appearing 
Among the shrubs Pieris japonica is one of the first to make 
its appearance. A clump of these in the west border, near the 
Woodlawn Road abutment, is full of slender racemes of white 
flowers. The hazel-nuts are among the first of the shrubs 
break into flower, and this year they are a little earlier than 
1. Two American forms, Corylus americana and C. rostrata, 
with the European C. As ellana, are now in full bloom, their 
tassels dancing in every wind. The common alder of our — 
and pond-sides, Alnus eee is in full tassel, and the “ pussies” 
on Salix discolor and on the osier willow, Salix ee are 
just creeping out. One of the showiest shrubs, quite marked in 
