. The American entomologist. Entomology. 28 THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. Having submitted it to Di-. T. C. Hilgard, of St. Louis, who has made the study of our grasses a specialty, he determined it to be the Vilfa vaginceflora (Torrey), a species wliich delights in barren and sandy fields, and is quite common westward and southward. " Grasshoppers " are voracious creatures, and pass their food very rapidly, and from the construction of their mandibles, would not be likely to masticate a minute hard seed such as this produces. It is therefore not impossible that the seed was brought by
. The American entomologist. Entomology. 28 THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. Having submitted it to Di-. T. C. Hilgard, of St. Louis, who has made the study of our grasses a specialty, he determined it to be the Vilfa vaginceflora (Torrey), a species wliich delights in barren and sandy fields, and is quite common westward and southward. " Grasshoppers " are voracious creatures, and pass their food very rapidly, and from the construction of their mandibles, would not be likely to masticate a minute hard seed such as this produces. It is therefore not impossible that the seed was brought by them from the ban-en plains west of the Missouri river, and passed with their ex- creta, which, covering the land, would form a rich manure, and give the grass a vigorous start.—^Eds.] ' • » > AN APPLE GROWING ON A GRAPE VINE. A Vegetable Phenomenon.—In the garden of Capt. David B. Moore, Lexington, Va., there is grow- ing on a grape vine a fully developed apple. On one side of the apple is an appearance of vrhat might have been a grape bloom. This interesting lums natwroe. is, as far as we know, without precedent, and ol course has attracted marked attention and caused no little speculation in the circle learned in such matters about Lexington. The prevailing opinion, we learn, is that an apple bloom faUing aooidently upon a grape bloom became incorporated with it and produced the result: but, if so. Is it not singular that such an accident had never occurred before? And, if so, again, does it not teach that the grape and apple may be grafted on each other? We hope the pomologists ot Lexington wiU note very carefully aU the phenomena of this freak of nature, and that they wiU have the apple photographed, vrith a portion of the vine, before its removal, for engraving and pubUcation in Horticultural journals.—B^ohmoiM Whig. The above is finding its way into many of our agricultural papei-s, and various are the editorial surmises and explanations. "We think that
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