THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



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year to completely exterminate the motlis 

 in my orchard. 



Any vessel in which the honey and 

 water is placed should be such as a gallon 

 mustard jar, so that the moths could have 

 easy access to the sweetened water, but 

 could not easily get out, then the moths 

 should be removed every two or three 

 days, for if there are too many left in the 

 water, others will light on them and be able 

 to fly out. The moths only fly at night. 



Those who have bees shcmld be careful 

 and remove the jars in the day, otherwise 

 many bees will be lost. 



I always in two or three days remove 

 the moths with a piece of wire-cloth fast- 

 ened to the end of a stick, and kill those 

 which are alive. 



I wish others would try this experiment 

 and report to your paper. 



It would be exceedingly interesting 

 to hear again from this writer as to the 

 results of his method of capturing these 

 moths with sweetened water in 1881 

 and 1882j and to know whether he has 

 completely exterminated them from his 

 orchard as he expected. 



Professor W. J Benl, of the Michigan 

 State Agricultural College, in a paper 

 read by him before the Illinois State 

 Horticultural Society, and published in 

 tJie Transactions of 1882, says: "I 

 have several times tried to catch them 

 by placing in apple trees pans of sour 

 milk, sweetened vinegar, bottles of 

 sweetened watei-, and boai'ds smeared 

 over with molasses. I have always 

 caught many insects, but never to my 

 knowledge caught a codlin moth by 

 these means. I have thrown slaked 

 lime in trees at different times when 

 fruit was on the trees, but it has failed 

 to re«luce the number of moths or of 

 wormy apples. I have tried bands 

 around the trees, bands made of straw, 

 wood, cloth, pasteboard and soft paper. 

 They all catch the larvae of the moths, 

 but still enough escape to keep up a 

 good supj>ly of insects. The most 

 effectual band was one patented in 

 Western New York. It consists of a 



band of pasteboard two and a half inches 

 wide and lined with cotton." 



It seems from Prof. Beal's experi- 

 ments that he did not succeed in cap- 

 turing any of the codlin moths with 

 sweetened water, sweetened vinegar or 

 molasses ; and it has been the general 

 opinion of those who have studied the 

 habits of the codlin moth, that it can 

 not be caught with sweetened water. 

 Wm. Saunders, in his work on insects 

 injurious to fruits, says : " Wide- 

 mouthed bottles, partly filled with 

 sweetened water and hung in the trees, 

 have been recommended as traps for 

 the codlin moth, but there is no reli- 

 able evidence that any appreciable 

 benefit has ever been derived from their 

 use. There is no doubt that a large 

 number of moths can be captured in 

 this manner, but it is a rare thing to 

 find a codlin moth among them. Neither 

 is the plan of lighting fires in the or- 

 chard of much avail, since the codlin 

 moth is rarely attracted by light." 



Our Walkerton readers will confer a 

 favor by calling the attention of the 

 writer in the Bruce Herald, if he be 

 known to them, to the subject of his 

 experiments, and obtaining from him a 

 further account of his experience. 



The Victoria Cuerant. — The Victoria 

 currant is more prolific than the Red 

 Dutch, and is therefore more profitable 

 for market gardeners. But as the Vic- 

 toria has more acidity, the Red Dutch is 

 the better variety for farmers who intend 

 to grow only for home use. 



DiELYTRA Spectabilis is one of our 

 prettiest spring blooming plants, also 

 blooms nicely in the house in winter. A 

 very light position should be secured for 

 it, otherwise the branches will grow up 

 wrong. Not too much heat is required for 

 it : in fact, it will do better in rather cool 

 places. It is pleasing to know of a plant 

 that will do so well in the open ground, 

 where one may be sure to enjoy its beauti- 

 ful pink and curiously shaped flowers 

 every spring. 



