These urban infestations were initially associated with golf courses and plant nurseries where grubs of this pest were again introduced in soil and plants imported from states with earlier Japanese beetle infestations. Populations of this pest remained mainly in these urban area until about 10-12 ...
Many ardent horticulturists concentrated on this common species in the early nineteenth century — domesticating native plant species for home gardens and producing hybrid crosses from these natives was something of a national preoccupation during the period — and Norton as a named variety was availabl...