126 The Canadian Horticulturist. 



Propag-ating" Raspberries. 



745. SiR,--How do you grow raspber- 

 ries from tips ? 



D. N. Anderson, Wyoming. 



Propagation of Black Cap raspber- 

 ries is very easily done. The tip of 

 each young shoot, if pegged down, as 

 soon as it reaches the ground will 

 take root. A simpler plan is, bend 

 over the branches, as soon as long 

 enough, say, in August, and throw on 



each a shovelful of earth, firming down 

 FiQ 779 



with the foot. These will strike root, 



and, in the spring, may be lifted and planted for fruit bearing. (See Fig. 779.) 



If rapid propagation is wanted, a foot or so of the cane may be covered, and 



several buds will root, and each make a plant, though inferior to the terminal one. 



Cabbag-e Maggot. 



T46. Sir, — My cabbages are infested with white maggots, which are eating the 

 roots. Is there any remedy ? 



W. H. Taylor, Hamilton. 



This maggot is the larva of a small fly which eats into the ground and 

 roots of turnip and cabbage plants. The usual advice given to overcome this 

 enemy is to set the plants each year in the new piece of ground, as far away as 

 convenient from the plantation of the previous year. Professor Bailey advises 

 inserting bisulphide of carbon into the soil when the plants are in the hotbed. 

 Then puddle the plants, when transplanting, in a puddle to which sulphur has 

 been added, and sprinkle sulphur about the plants after they are set- 



Stock Mixtures. 



(See questioti yjj.) 



It is important to observe two things in order to keep stock solution from 

 deteriorating. First, to keep both the copper and the lime solution from the 

 air ; it is recommended to cover each securely and bury the casks in the ground. 

 Second, to keep each solution separate ; if mixed, they act chemically upon each 

 other, so that the fungicidal power is injured, and in a short time, say, inside a 

 month, wholly lost. 



joj Crawford St., Toronto. D. W. Beadle, 



