find a chestnut weevil in the nuts. I have found now
and then a little weevil, about half a dozen altogether, that attacks
the involucre at its point of attachment to the chinquapin. This looks
like the chestnut weevil, but perhaps, only according to my eye, very
much as all Chinamen look alike to one who has never seen them before.

The matter of carbon disulphide for the painted hickory borer. I have
used that apparently successfully, but I didn't tunnel through six feet
of hickory tree afterward to see whether the borers were dead or not. It
is a successful treatment for apple borers. I have no trouble with the
apple borers now. I simply clean off the entrance of the hole, the
"sawdust," and then with a little putty spread out with my hand make a
sort of putty shelf below the hole, then I squirt in a few drops of
carbon disulphide with a syringe, turn up the putty and leave it
adhering to the bark, closing the hole. You can do that very quickly,
and it spares a good deal of perspiring and backache.

The black walnut. On one of my black walnut trees there is a serious
pest, a very little worm which infests the involucre. The black walnuts
of this tree fall early. I found that same worm last year also extending
to the Asiatic walnuts, so that a great many Japanese walnuts fell early
as the black walnuts fall, as a result of this little worm's working in
large numbers within the involucre. I sent some specimens to New Haven
for the species to be observed. This will be a very serious matter if it
is going to involve the English walnuts as it does on Long Island. I
have found the same thing, apparently, on Long Island in the black
walnut, in the English walnut, and in the pecan. It causes a serious
drop of these nuts at Dana's Island, near Glen Cove, Long Island.

THE EXTENT OF THE HARDY NUT TREE NURSERY BUSINESS.

R. T. OLCOTT, NEW YORK.

For obvious reasons this subject may well be considered as constituting
a gauge of commercial nut culture in the North; it is therefore of much
more importance than the mere title would suggest. If there is merit in
all that has been preached regarding the planting of budded and grafted
trees instead of seedlings; and if it is still true, as we have long
observed, that the propagation of named varieties of nut trees, and
especially of hardy nut trees, is successful almost solely in the hands
of experts, the progress of commercial nut culture in the northern
states rests lar