PARK AND CEMETERY 
Notes of Trees and iShrtibs. 
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(An Enemy to San Jose Scale. 
A correspondent in Ohio, who has 
been taking preventive measures 
against scale insects, writes that he has 
until recently been killing the Asiatic 
ladybird under the mistaken impression 
that it was injurious to the trees. The 
ladybird is the natural enemy of the 
San Jose scale, and the accompanying 
illustration may be of help to others in 
THE ASIATIC LADYBIRD. 
identifying it. The picture is from the 
yearbook of the Department of Agri- 
culture, which tells about it as follows : 
The little ladybird (Chiloconis sim- 
ilis) is everywhere present in both China 
and Japan, feeding on the San Jose 
scale and also on the white peach- 
scale {Diaspis pentagona), the latter 
another serious scale pest which has re- 
cently gained foothold in this country, 
and is undoubtedly native also to east- 
ern Asia, extending, as it does, from 
north China southward through the 
Malay Peninsula to Java, and occurring 
throughout Japan. Wherever either of 
these scale insects occurred the little 
ladybird was found industriously feed- 
ing upon them. This ladybird, like 
other members of its genus, is a general 
feeder, and will attack almost any scale 
insect. It was very evident, however, 
that it fed on the San Jose scale with 
even greater readiness than it did on 
the Diaspis or other scale insects, and 
later on, in the experimental breeding 
cages in Washington, D. C., it has mul- 
tiplied more rapidly on the San Jose 
scale than on the Diaspis. In Japan 
this ladybird, already present as an en- 
emy of the widely distributed Diaspis, 
has taken very readily to the San Jose 
scale and assists very much in keeping 
the latter in subjection. 
(A Liquid Tree Trotecior. 
“Tree Tanglefoot” is the name of a 
new liquid preparation recently put on 
the market by the O. & W. Thum Co., 
of Grand Rapids, Mich., to protect trees 
against ants, bugs, worms and other in- 
sects that crawl up the trunks of the 
trees and damage the fruit and foliage. 
This firm manufacturers the Tanglefoot 
flypaper, and was led into the produc- 
tion of Tree Tanglefoot by various at- 
tempts by users of the flypaper to utilize 
it as a band around trees to stop crawl- 
ing insects. The flypaper did not prove 
adaptable to this use, and the firm set 
to work to experiment, and after two 
years of effort perfected the new com- 
pound. It has been tested and recom- 
mended by agricultural experiment sta- 
tions, and has been used in Massa- 
chusetts to combat the gypsy and brown- 
tail moths, and in California and Illi- 
nois against the canker-worm. The 
preparation is applied directly to the 
bark with a knife or small wooden 
paddle, or on a band of paper fastened 
around the tree. It will remain sticky 
for three months, is harmless to plant 
life, and is effective in a temperature 
ranging from 32 to 115 degrees. This 
company has many testimonials from 
users of “Tree Tanglefoot.” 
Storms Damage Trees in South. 
“Not a winter resort, but a resort for 
winter,” well describes the conditions 
on Feb. 7 and 8, and again on Feb. 14, 
1905, in some parts of the South. 
A sleet storm, extending over a large 
area, from Memphis south and east, and 
from Chattanooga south, raged on 
Feb. 7 and 8. Six inches of snow and 
sleet covered the ground the next day, 
and much damage resulted, especially 
on Lookout Mountain, where trees, 
weighted down with ice, were uprooted 
and fell on the mountain side. In the 
government park there is not a tree 
that is not badly damaged, and a large 
proportion are ruined beyond any pos- 
sible hope of recovery. No battle could 
have stripped them so completely of 
their limbs. The man intrusted with 
the trimming and pruning and saving of 
them should know his business, for only 
the work of an expert will restore 
them to one-half their original beauty. 
On Missionary Ridge and at Chicka- 
mauga Park the damage is not so great. 
In the parks at Memphis most of the 
damage was to the magnolias, of which 
many limbs were broken off. The sec- 
ond cold wave exerted itself in still, 
cold, low temperature. On Feb. 13 the 
thermometer began to drop about noon ; 
at 10 p. m. it ranged from 10 to 20 de- 
grees below in and around Knoxville, 
and on the morning of Feb. 14 a tem- 
perature of 24 to 27 degrees below zero 
was read in the suburbs of Knoxville, 
while in the city 14 to 18 degrees below 
was registered. This was due to a 
blanket of smoke that covered the city. 
Many magnolias. Ilex, box and English 
ivy turned brown in a few days follow- 
ing. Sid. J. Hare. 
Railroad Landscaping. 
While the necessity of retrenchment, 
or some other reason, is prompting a 
number of railroads to discontinue their 
gardening departments, it is not so with 
the Michigan Central. It is nearly 
twenty-five years since it took up this 
work and last year at the greenhouses 
at Niles and Ypsilanti over 200,000 
bedding plants and shrubs were grown 
for use on the station grounds along 
the line. This year the gardening de- 
partment has been equally busy, most 
of the stock now being planted out. 
The Michigan Central also grows large 
quantities of cut flowers for its own use. 
The Chicago & Northwestern has large 
greenhouses at Waukegan, 111 ., for the 
Milwaukee division, and at West Chica- 
go for the main line, where .thousands 
of bedding plants and shrubbery have 
been grown the past season and are now 
planted out along the road. The Bur- 
lington is following suit, with its green- 
houses at Aurora, and the Illinois Cen- 
tral is doing more work in this line than 
ever before, as its greenhouses at Cham- 
paign have only this season got under 
full headway. — Florists’ Reviezv. 
The Re'bi’val of the Reony. 
The peony revival is now in full 
swing, and everybody seems to be happy 
about it, says Country Life in America. 
In fact, this lovely flower never really 
went out of favor, as the dahlia did. 
Of course, the peony has been greatly 
improved in the last fifteen years (wit- 
ness, for example, the increased num- 
ber of fragrant varieties), but even if 
it had not been improved it would still 
rank among the six best herbaceous per- 
ennials in cultivation; in fact, it is prob- 
ably the best “hardy flower” we have, 
and if the truth were known (and one 
could ignore fragrance and sentiment) 
the peony beats the rose “all hollow.” 
