150 The Ithite Grub. 



Photographs and Fruits. 



FROM Gov. R. W. Furnas, of Nebraska, we have three very fine photographic 

 plates. One represents the buildings upon the fair grounds of the State Agri- 

 cultural Society; the other two, from different stand-points, the display of fruit made 

 by the State Horticultural Society in connection with the last (1872) fair of the State 

 Agricultural Society. If these photographic views tell the truth, the display of fruit 

 inust have been magnificent on the occasion. We expect to see Nebraska at the 

 "Hub," next September, with a collection of Pomona's gifts that will astonish the 

 natives. 



S. R. Moore, West Zanesville, Ohio, favors us with specimens of a small apple 

 labelled " Little Pearmain," according to Elliott a synonym of Bullock's Pippin. 

 Warder and Downing make it a synonym of the American Golden Russett, The 

 apple is small, but has decidedly redeeming qualities. In describing it, we can do 

 no better than to copy from Elliott : 



' "Size, small to medium ; form, roundish, ovate, tapering much toward the eye; 

 color, generally rich golden yellow, overspread with soft russett, and in sun a mar- 

 bling of red; stem, slender; cavity nai-row, regular; calyx, small, closed; basin, 

 shallow, sometimes furrowed ; flesh yellowish, tender, juicy, almost buttery, delicate, 

 sprightly ; core, large for size of fruit ; seeds, full, ovate, pyramidal. Season, De- 

 cember to March." 



Downing truly says of its quality : " One of the most delicious and tender apples, 

 the flesh resembling more in texture that of a buttery pear, than of an ordinary 

 apple." 



The White Qruh. 



ED. Western Horticulturist : — Seeing an inquiry in the 12th No. of the 

 Horticulturist, in regard to White Grubs, reminded me of a bit of experi- 

 ence in my own observations of the pests, which I now give for the benefit of the 

 inquirer or others. 



Some three years ago, I planted a row of Early Rose potatoes, and wishing to 

 make the most of them, about the time the sprouts were coming through the ground, 

 I made a trench five or six inches deep close along the row, and put in it a liberal 

 quantity — say two or three inches — of fresh hen manure, and covered it with soil. 

 Sometime during the summer, while hoeing the potatoes, I happened to dig into the 

 manure, and to my surprise found some twenty large, plump, white specimens of the 

 "rascal" luxuriating in the trench of manure, while the potatoes, at digging, were 

 unharmed. 



Further: the fact is patent to all farmers here, that the white grub will not injure 

 growing corn, if the ground has a good coat of fresh stable manure plowed under 

 before planting. They seem to prefer to work in the manure, and perhaps live on it. 

 Cannot this fact be turned to good account by furnishing the " rascals" such mate- 

 rial underground among strawberry or other plants ? 



Carthage, Ind. Thomas T. Newby. 



