ear, it
would be advisable to remove the straw from one or two rows in order to
hasten the maturity of the buds, and keep the straw on the remainder of
the patch in order to force the weevils to the uncovered row. They could
then be destroyed either by plowing under or burning.

Some recent experiments by Prof. Headlee, State Entomologist of New
Jersey, appear to have been successful against the strawberry weevil. A
dust spray of a mixture of arsenate of lead one pound, and sulphur one
pound, was used as a repellent, giving almost perfect protection. The
material was applied twice, April 30th and May 6th.

The writer will be glad to co-operate with the growers, if they find the
presence of the weevil in their strawberry beds.--S. Marcovitch, Section
of Economic Entomology, Division of Economic Zoology, University Farm.

Secretary's Annual Report, 1915.

A. W. LATHAM, SECRETARY.

Twenty-five years is a long time to look forward to, but it does not
seem so long when you look back, and yet when I review the changes that
have taken place in the Horticultural Society since I assumed the
position of secretary twenty-five years ago the way seems long indeed.
In the year 1890 very nearly all of the old members of the society,
those who had contributed their time and money to bring it into
existence and keep it alive for its first twenty-four years were still
on the membership roll and doing loyal work for the association. As year
by year passed these veterans of the association one by one dropped away
until at the present time the number of those in that class who are
still with us here are so few in number that it becomes almost a
vanishing point. In the year 1897 a photograph was taken of "ten
veterans of horticulture," a copy of which is hanging in the secretary's
office, and of these ten the only one now with us is that loyal friend
and supporter of the society, Seth H. Kenney, of Waterville, now eighty
years of age and too feeble to attend this meeting. Going back to a date
still earlier, covering the first few years of the association, the only
working members of the society as far as the secretary recalls are J. M.
Underwood, C. M. Loring and himself. This is the order of nature, and we
should remember only with gratitude and affection those who have served
before us and with us and passed on.

At the close of this, the forty-ninth year of the society, we find the
membership roll somewhat larger in number t