. Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry. reed !Never until some bird dropped the seed at the side of mywater garden, where it has grown into a large specimen, hadI noticed the beauty of this common wayside weed ; but thereit stands, growing out of the Irises, quite holding its own, instateliness and distinction, among the best exotics. Elizabeth, 7- N- Gerard. a depth of some three inches, and disposed to burrow moredeeply. When a number of larva? were placed on loose soilin a quart-can they soon went beneath the surface, and con-tinued until they reache
. Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry. reed !Never until some bird dropped the seed at the side of mywater garden, where it has grown into a large specimen, hadI noticed the beauty of this common wayside weed ; but thereit stands, growing out of the Irises, quite holding its own, instateliness and distinction, among the best exotics. Elizabeth, 7- N- Gerard. a depth of some three inches, and disposed to burrow moredeeply. When a number of larva? were placed on loose soilin a quart-can they soon went beneath the surface, and con-tinued until they reached the bottom of the can. Instinct car-ries them below reach of frOst, and possibly the alarmingincrease of these bugs for the past three years is due to a suc-cession of mild winters ; the ground never having been frozenmore than two inches in depth. Almost weekly during thewinter of 1S90-1891 I renewed search for the larvae and foundthem always a little deeper, until they had reached a depth ofrive or six inches. The larva resembles a small white gfxfh, is about a half-. Fig. 67.—Fence-cornet in Illinois.—See page 410. Experiences with the Rose-bug in 1891. THIS insect {Macrodactylns subspinosus), of which much hasbeen already said in Garden and Forest, appears herein annually increasing numbers, and seriously threatens ourfruit-crops, and especially the grape. Over a wide area insouthern New Jersey it has this year devoured the grapes, theblackberries and several other fruits. In the autumn of 1890I undertook to trace its life-history. In October and Novem-ber I dug in the soil of my farm and found the larvae there at inch in length, and is coiled into a ring, with head and tailmeeting. I do not find them in wet and heavy ground. On Monday, May 25th, 1891, Professor John B. Smith, Ento-mologist of New Jersey Experiment Station, came here, andwe dug for the rose-bugs and found, in the same squareyard of soil, the larva, the pupa and the fully developed in-sect. This explai
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