August 7, 1895.] 



Garden and Forest. 



315 



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jars cause them to fall to the ground ; or, better yet, a 

 curculio cart may be placed in position where they could 

 be easily captured and killed. In case the curculio carts 

 are not to be had, any large sheet spread on the ground 

 under the tree will answer the purpose. 



During the winter a very careful search should be made 

 for the egg masses, which, as above noted, will be found 

 attached to the empty coCoons which were formerly inhab- 

 ited by the females. The eggs may be destroyed by 

 crushing. 



Spraying with the arsenites is also recommended, al- 

 though the grower referred to as losing a considerable por- 

 tion of his apple crop says that he sprayed his orchard 

 three times with Paris green, but apparently to no effect. 

 This failure may have been due to a lack of lime in the 

 mixture, as an excess of lime has a tendency to make the 



poison remain on the 

 ^i?>^^ ^- leaves. The spra)'ing 



should be done very 

 thoroughly, care being 

 taken to drench the 

 under surface of every 

 leaf. The caterpillars 

 are said to be more 

 susceptible to the poi- 

 son when young. 



According to Dr. Lint- 

 ner, this insect is widely 

 distributed in the United 

 States, being found both 

 north and south as far 

 west as the Rocky 

 Mountains. It has a 

 large variety of food- 

 plants, but, according 

 to Mr. Saunders, pre- 

 fers the Apple. It is 

 known to frequently oc- 

 cur on the Plum, and 

 has been found upon the 

 Pear. Professor Beach, 

 of the New York Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion, tells me that he 

 has found it upon the 

 Apricot. In some sec- 

 tions of the state it is 

 very destructive to shade-trees, particularly the Elm and 

 Maple. 



The accompanying illustration represents a caterpillar 

 feeding upon the under surface of an Apple-leaf. An in- 

 iured fruit is represented on the left. ... , ,-. , 



Jamaica, N. Y. f 'C^or H. LoiVC. 



[This is the insect whose larva; have been so destructive 

 of the foliage of Lindens and other trees on the Common 

 and in the streets of Boston and in other eastern cities. In 

 our last week's issue some of the methods used to keep it 

 in check in New York were given. — Ed.] 



Fig. 



-Larva of the White-marked Tussock 

 Moth. — See page 314. 



New or Little-known Plants. 



Kalmia latifolia, var. myrtifolia. 



THIS form of the Mountain Laurel has been an inhab- 

 itant of English gardens for many years, although 

 it has escaped the notice of writers on the American flora, 

 and we find no allusion to it in any of the numerous works 

 on the botany of North America. The variety was men- 

 tioned, however, by Rand in his book on the Rhododendron, 

 published in Boston in 1871, and in the Revue Horticole for 

 1883 Andre describes and figures it on page 10. 



A plant of this Kalmia obtained from an English nursery 

 has inhabited the Arnold Arboretum for many years, but 

 until this season we have never known it except in gar- 

 dens. From Princeton, Massachusetts, however, where he 



has found three individuals in localities remote from one 

 another, Mr. Thomas B. Allen, of Boston, sends us speci- 

 mens which are identical with the cultivated plant, and 

 show that this is a natural variety and not a nursery seed- 

 ling. 



Kalmia latifolia, var. myrtifolia (see figure 44, on page 

 317), is a very compact, much-branched, leafy shrub with 

 slender contorted branches, and when fully grown is not 

 more than three feet high and broad. The flowers do not 

 differ from those of the ordinary Kalmia in size, color or 

 marking, but the leaves are not much more than an inch 

 long and a third of an inch wide. 



This pretty dwarf is an excellent plant for situations 

 where the common Laurel would occupy too much space, 

 or for the margins of masses of larger plants. It must be 

 propagated by grafting or layering, as it is not probable 

 that its seeds would reproduce its small leaves and com- 

 pact habit. 



Plant Notes. 



Spir.ea Anthony Waterer. — This is a seedling of that 

 variety of Spiraea Japonica which is known in gardens as 

 S. Bumalda and which is distinguished by its dwarf, com- 

 pact habit, its persistent flowering and bright red flowers. 

 S. Anthony Waterer originated in the Knaphill Nurseries, 

 at Woking, in England, a few years ago, and only differs 

 from its parent in the deeper, brighter and more intense 

 color of the flowers. As it begins to flower freely when 

 only a few inches high and continues to produce its large 

 flat corymbs from July until frost appears, this shrub prom- 

 ises to be a capital addition to the rather short list of 

 autumn-flowering hardy shrubs. It has flovs'ered for the 

 first time this year in the United States in a few gardens to 

 which Mr. Waterer has sent it for trial. A beautifully col- 

 ored plate of S. Anthony Waterer was published in The 

 Garden last year. It has received a first-class certificate 

 from the Royal Horticultural Society and has been de- 

 scribed by our London correspondent in this journal (see 

 vii., 34). 



LiGUSTRUM ovALiFOLiUM. — Although this plant is usually 

 sold by nurserymen under the name of the California Privet, 

 it is an Asiatic species which has become very common 

 in this country. It is not a graceful plant in habit, like 

 Ligustrum Ibota, but is stiff and whippy in growth. It 

 has, however, the beauty that comes from rude health, and 

 its erect branches are closely covered with glossy foliage, 

 which often remains on the plants until midwinter. It is 

 planted more generally in the small parks of this city than 

 any other shrub, and its use is justified by its ability to 

 endure drought, smoke and dust and other hardships which 

 generally make shrubs unhappy in large cities. This year 

 the plants here have been for some reason unusually florif- 

 erous, and in some of the squares and churchyards speci- 

 mens ten or twelve feet high, covered with large clusters of 

 white flowers, with a background of glossy leaves, have 

 been very effective. Where this Privet can be trusted to 

 endure the winters, it makes hedges which can be shorn 

 with the greatest precision, and which, nevertheless, will 

 cover themselves for weeks with feathery flowers. A pho- 

 tograph of such a hedge in one of the southern states was 

 recently sent to this office, and makes a striking picture. 



Clem.4tis coccinea. — This interesting plant, which was 

 introduced into cultivation more than twenty-five years ago, 

 has proved able to survive the climate of New England, 

 although it is a native of Texas and the south-west. It 

 grows to the heiglit of eight or ten feet in this latitude, and 

 is a smooth, slender vine with somewhat leathery trifoliate 

 leaves, and solitary flowers borne on slender, but erect, 

 peduncles six or eight inches in length, and sometimes 

 even longer. The flowers, which are about an inch long, 

 may be called bell-shaped, although the)'' are somewhat 

 contracted at the point where the sepals begin to spread, 

 so that their diameter is smaller here than it is nearer the 

 base, and the sepals are so thick and fleshy that the mouth 

 is small. Their color on the outside is a light scarlet or 



