April 9, 1890.] 



Garden and Forest. 



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Fig. 32. — Lycoris squamigera. — See page 176. 



the Dogwood are the hosts of many species of fungi. Ash- to be but little difference in the value of the different species 



trees serve as food for a number of common insects, but in in regard to freedom from injury. The American species ap- 



isolated situations they appear to be less liable to serious de- pear to have slightly the advantage. Little of a damaging 



struction of foliage than Elms. Among the latter there seems nature is recorded against the Sassafras and the Catalpas. The 



