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GARDENING. 



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THE WINCHELL GRAPE. [REDUCED ] 



get rid of them. We suspect they are 

 greenfly. Tobacco is the remedy. Go or 

 send to a cigar factory lor a lot of fresh 

 tobacco stems, say 25 or 100 pounds (if 

 you have a greenhouse you may need 

 several hundred pounds; it is very cheap) 

 and a few pounds of fresh tobacco dust. 

 Or you can send to your seecjsmen for 

 them; they keep such things in stock. If 

 your plants are in a greenhouse you can 

 shut it up tight some evening and fumi- 

 gate it. (See "insects," page 182, in 

 Gardening, March 1, also page 122, 

 January 1, 189-t-.) But if your plants 

 are in your window, don't fumi- 

 gate them either in the window nor put 

 them into a cupboard and smoke them 

 there, as sonierecommend, nor take them 

 down cellar for the same purpose, no 

 matter whether shut into a closet or put 

 under a wet sheet raised tent fashion, for 

 the smoke, which is exceedingly obnoxi- 

 ous, will find its way into ever}- room in 

 the house. Instead make a tobacco 

 water or tea, ;is recommended March 1, 

 page 182, and dip the plants into it. Or 

 you may thoroughly wet the plants, then 

 dust them over freely, especially the grow- 

 ing tips, with the tobacco dust or snuflT. 

 Of course this will be unsightly, but by 

 syringing or dipping in clean water j'ou 

 mav wash it off next day. 



The Fruit Garden. 



fl FEW GOOD ORflFES. 



No matter how small the garden may- 

 be there is room in it for a few grapes. 

 We can cover an arbor with the vines, 

 tack them on the fence or wall of the 

 house, or tie them up to the clothes line 

 poles, cover a trellis with them to hide 

 away some out-building, or make some 

 other such provision for their support if 

 we are pinched for room. Hut if we have 

 pleniyofroom how nice it is to have a 



string of trellis for the grape vines, or 

 as some prefer, a row or two of plants 

 tied to stakes. The early spring is an 

 excellent time to get and plant grape 

 vines. 



Some varieties do better in one place 

 than in another, but the following kinds 

 seem to do well generally: 



Black.— Worden, large bunch; large 

 compact berrj', of good quality, and 

 ripening a few daysearlier than Concord. 

 Concord — when well ripened it is a pretty 

 good grape, and the plant is healthy and 

 productive and succeeds most everywhere. 



Red.— Brighton— Of good size of bunch 

 and berry, and when well ripened its 

 quality is excellent. Delaware— Although 

 the berries are small they are very sweet, 

 and the bunches compact, and while the 

 vine is slender it is healthv and very 

 fruitful. 



White.— Niagara— It is among white 

 grapes what the Concord is among black 

 ones, and seems to be as healthy and 

 prolific. The bunches and berries are 

 large. Winchell or Green Mountain— .V 

 new grape that has given satisfaction 

 over a large part of the country. The 

 vine is healthy, vigorous and prolific; 

 the bunches and berries are of good size, 

 and the fruit ofuncomraonly good quality. 

 It ripens two weeks earlier than the 

 Concord. For our illustration we are 

 indebted to the courtesy of Messrs. 

 Kllwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y. 

 What a beautiful and truthful picture 



these shells are the eggs which, in the 

 natural course of things should hatch out 

 in May and give the brood of depredators 

 fortliisycar's work. Takea large sizedold 

 paint 1)rush and shorten the bristles so as 

 to iiiaUc the stub into a stiff scrubbing 

 bnisli ,111.1 wiili this rub off the scales now 

 or sn .1 |jr I 111 Til 1. 11 with a knife and at 

 owv s\ I iii.M ,,i s|,r;iy with extra strong 

 kl■^cl'^^lK■ (iiuil>i(iii. This will destroy 

 wli.Ltcvcr eggs are exposed after scrub- 

 bing. About the middle of May and 

 again the first of June, and the middle of 

 June dew the trees again with kerosene 

 emulsion of ordinarj' strength to kill the 

 hatched out young scales. But at that 

 time be careful you don't hurt the young 

 leaves on the trees aswell. 



BARK SCALE ON flFFLE TREES. 



O. D., Fall River, Mass., writes: "Last 

 fall I noticed a white bark scale on one of 

 my crab apple trees, and although 1 

 soaked the scale then withclear kerosene, 

 it seems to stick there still. Sample sent 

 herewith." 



It is the common bark scale. What you 

 regard as living insects arethe dead shells 

 of last vear's scales, but underneath 



ABOUT FLIMS. 



Rochester and its vicinity seem to be 

 favored, both in soil and location in the 

 matter of plum growing. Last fall we 

 liad an immense crop of fruit of nearly all 

 varieties, bringing the ])rice of plums 

 down to 50 cents per bushel, while prunes 

 brought $1 per bushel at wholesale. Of 

 course some few varieties nearly always 

 set a crop, notably Lombard, which has 

 given to it, although not a first-class 

 fruit — an extended reputation and sale. 

 Several jears ago Ellwanger & Barry, 

 and a very few others in this section 

 resorted to jamming the trees early in the 

 morning: for a certain time, and destroyed 

 the captured curculios. This limited their 

 ravages, and rewarded their labors with 

 a partial, or full crop of frxiit. I doubt 

 hower if jamming is now much resorted 

 to. From my own observations, I have 

 noticed that a crop of fruit usually fol- 

 lows fine weather when the trees are in 

 bloom, then the trees set so much fruit 

 that if a great quantity drops off enough 

 is usually left on to afford a satisfactory 

 crop. 



Much interest is now being centered in 

 the Japan kinds, which are now on pro- 

 bation. I think it is, however somewhat 

 of a fad, as it seems to me these new 

 introductions cannot drive our old tried 

 varieties out of cultivation as some so 

 emphatically predict. I am pleased at 

 their advent, and am watching their 

 behaviour with interest. [Although the 

 varieties known as Japanese plums may 

 have been raised in Japan botanists are 

 inclined to believe that there is no true 

 plum tree indigenous in Japan at all, and 

 that the original parentsof these so-called 

 Japanese plums are natives of China.-ED.] 



Rochester, N. Y. John Charlton. 



Raising strawberrv plants i-kom 

 SEED." By the time the exhibition was 

 over most of the strawberries were half 

 decayed, but the exhibitor gave me the 

 plates of his berries that I wanted. Half 

 rotten as they were I brought them home 

 carefully, and washed them out to get the 

 seeds from them, and these I sowed in a 

 narrow border on the north side of a 

 wall, then covered them over with dry 

 hay and watered them. Early in the fall 

 the seedlings came up by the thousand. 

 They ought to fruit next summer, then 

 won't I and mj' friends have some fun 

 testing new varieties?" So writes one of 

 our readers. 



PrI-NINO fruit trees and lll'SIIES.— 



If any pruning that may be needed hasn't 

 alrea'dv been done, attend to it as soon 

 as possible. Just as soon as the frost is 

 out of the ground, we enter spring gar- 

 dening with a rush, and probably have 

 less time then than now for finishing up 

 the pruning. 



