PROCEEDINGS OF THE FARMERS' CLUB. 137 



Whitewashing Trees. 



Mr. Slosser says : " Your club condemns whitewashing trees. 

 If you will mix air-slacked lime in hot water, and put it on the 

 tree in freezing weather, it will cause the rough bark to peel off." 



So will any caustic wash. Mix hot lime with water, and let it 

 settle until clear, and wash with that lye and see if your rough 

 bark does not peel better than when whitewashed. 



How TO Grow Peaches in Cold Climates. 



Mr. V. C. Mason, Berlin. Waukesha Co., Wis., has succeeded 

 in growing peaches where the thermometer runs down to 30° ])elow 

 zero, by training the trees low, and covering them in winter with 

 boards and earth, at very little expense. He sets posts in the line of 

 the row, upon which a ridge pole is fixed, wKich supports one end of 

 the rafters, the other end resting on the ground, and these being 

 boarded with cheap refuse boards, are covered with a thin coat of 

 earth, which is gradually removed early in spring, in time to pre- 

 vent injury to fruit buds. The only kinds lie recommends for 

 culture, under such circumstances, are Serrate Early York, Fay's 

 Early Ann, Cole's Early Eed, Early Barnard, Cooledge's Favorite. 

 The last named has done the best. 



Mr. Mason says : " By protecting this way a crop of peaches 

 here is as sure as a crop of potatoes. This mode of protection is 

 of course best adapted to a timbered region like this, where cov- 

 ering material is cheap and good peaches very high. My crop 

 last year brought $6 to $8 per bushel. 



Mr. Hicks said that of all his variety of peaches the " Snow 

 Peach" was the only one that exhibited any blossoms this spring. 

 This is an American seedling, very hard and productive ; skin 

 white, fruit large, globular, flesh white and juicy, ripening in fore 

 part of September. The blossoms are small and white, the foliage 

 and j'oung wood light green. 



Mr. Baldwin stated that he had some peaches upon trees in city 

 lots, and a gentleman who lives back of Nyack, said that while- 

 peach buds were all killed there, he had a good many apricot 

 blossoms upon cions grafted upon wild plum stocks. 



Planting Lima Beans. 



The regular subject of the day, " Spring Planting," was then 

 taken up. 



Mr. P. T. Quiim said : In many parts of the country, the Lima 

 bean cannot be grown with satisfactory success. The soil best 



