Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-27

No Great Damage Feared frOm the
Seventeeu.Year Loeusts-Baes that
are with ~ all the TfWe-A Talk
with PARKING Ce0missio1er.
Itae<hty thousand beautiful shade trees are
source of comfort and pride TO Washington.
This season they are particularly healthy. The
army of locusts has passed through their
branches, apparently without doing any DAM
age, and they are green and beautiful. II re-
quires much Cure To keep them in this healthy
condition. They have to be watered In dry
weather, and all the little dead branches have
70 be Topped or Their general health has to
be looked after. and they are guarded with
heavy pine boxes nom the ordinary wear and
tear TO which the common uncivifized twig OF
the forest y subjected. All this il looked alter
superintendent OF the agricultural grounds, is
one oi the commissioners. 81 don't see that
TMr sTss naSe hurt the rsss said he 70
and looked out the window Of his little brick
once across at the trees and shrubs about the
As Prot Rey R ns sSsH never sa ny
worse than 70 Kill maybe few twigs In which
shy iay their eggs. But before these scientific
dld not look upon his coming with any appre-
nension. The worst plague TO vegetation is the
cabbage worm, which eats up all the plant,
!eeving nothing but the stems, or the potato
bug, which Is so much dreaded by the farmers
As locusts come only every seventeen years
NssCy uSu dtfoCt InuCn Oh our 0ttentlOn, since
there are 90 many bngs and worms that prey
upon the plants and trees ell the time. There
=, =. no Time when there Is not some insect ready
gardeners whole duty is 10 hunt bugs. They
don't know much about what family OF insects
Se is S 70 no. nf what their peculiar an
tical study of bugs for years. and know that
there 10 Always an army on hand ready TO eat
81 srs eni
9uTy 10 the shade trees. They are eating the
leaves all the tine, and sometimes they make
don't injure them. When branch looks dead
and ugly we cut IL off for appearance sake, but
IL we should let them alone until all the leaves
were stripped of they would leave out the next
spring as fresh and green as ever. They fire.
Snenuy get stripped and leave out again the
"What trees are most attacked ?" asked THE
STAR
The elms I guess. It is very seldom an elm
Seen them stripped three and four times I'm a
summer, leaving out each time as fresh "a be-
Don't You do anything to protect them.,
.. no; we cant It's no use anyhow. It's best
10 let them alone. We once tried sprinkling
squirt-gun, of bamboo. and pumped aud
squirted the water all over them, but IL was a
nevereniing job. and would have cost IA for
tune each year. Now We let them alone, ex-
cept to water them In dry weather and lop on
the dead limbs. We can't squirtgun a whole
forest
"But the other trees are not such good food
for insects. The tree that's least troubled by
them Is the Norway maple. They are OF slow
growth. but are clean, broad, round-topped
trees and make pretty shade. They and the
silver maple are used more than any other
trees nov, ON account OF their peculiarly healthy
growth. But We have \ very large variety Of
trees here, and they are all Ia excellent condi-
ton. Neither the iOcusts nor other insects do
iruit bearing lines are what are Injured by the
insects. My grape vines here have to be syr-
lnced three times day to keep them Clean"