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i fair degree of preservation a hundred years after they were 

 placed in the ground. 



As a shade tree, the black locust is successfully cultivated on 

 the streets of Paris, where the top is kept small and spherical 

 and the branches thickly clustered ; in this country, however, it 

 cannot be recommended for shade. It is a rapid grower, hardy, 

 easily propagated and transplanted, and does well in poor soil ; 

 but is angular and scraggly in form, with brittle branches, short- 

 lived foliage, unsightly pods, and troublesome sprouting roots; 

 and, moreover, it is often seriously attacked by insects and fun- 



ust is the locust borer, Cyllene 

 Robiniae Forster. This insect riddles the trunk and not only 

 kills the tree but renders the wood unfit for use except for fuel. 

 Another enemy of the black locust is a bracket-fungus, Pyro- 

 polyporus Robiniae Murrill, the large brown fruit-bodies of which 

 may often be seen in great numbers on the trunks of old locust 



necticut. Several insects and fungi attack the foliage of the 

 locust, but the damage they do is usually insignificant compared 

 with that done by the borer and the bracket-fungus mentioned. 

 W. A. Murrill. 



SOME LITTLE KNOWN EDIBLE NATIVE FRUITS 

 OF THE UNITED STATES.* 



-There is probably no other center of population in the world 

 where the variety and abundance of fruit is so great as in New 

 York, nor where the supply represents such an elaborate series of 

 systems of production, transportation, storage, and wondrous hor- 



veloped. Our citizens may be regarded as epicures in these 

 products. Not only have we at all seasons a liberal variety of 

 fruits to select from, but we have learned to be content with noth- 

 ing less than the choicest varieties of each. 



It is somewhat difficult for such people to even imagine con- 

 ditions which are easily recalled by those of us who are able to 



* From a lecture delivered at the New York Botanical Garden, June I, 1907. 



