PACIFIC r R K K A ND V I N E 



Queries and A.nsAvers. 



BY JOHN ISAAC. 



\V. L. B., Sonoma. — The apple fcwiga 

 sent in by you are covered with eggs of 

 tlie apple aphis. The lime, sulphur and 

 salt remedy will reach them, but must 

 be used while the tree is dormant. For 

 use when the trees are in leaf the cau.«tic 

 soda and rosin solution will be found the 

 best. 



M. R. S., Santa Rosa. — Apples trees 

 should not be planted closer than '24 feet 

 apart, which will give you 76 to tlie acre. 

 Thirty feet on good land is even better, 

 which gives 48 to the acre. Peaches, 

 prunes and plums may be planted 20 

 feet apart, 108 to tlu; acre. 



T. H. M., Tulare.— The best way of 

 disposing of ants is with Ibi-sulphide of 

 carbon. Find their nest, scoop out some 

 of the earth from it, and pour in a little 

 of the bi-sulphide. This soon forms a 

 gas that will penetrate every part of the 

 nest and kill all the ants in it. As the 

 bi-sulphide is very iuHammable, you will 

 have to be careful to keep fire away from 

 it. 



W. P., Watsonville.— Spraying for the 

 codlin moth should commence very soon 

 now, as the trees are already putting 

 forth their blossoms, and the paris green 

 should be present when the young moths 

 are hatched out, which will be very soon 

 after the young apples are formed. 

 There has been no remedy equal to paris 

 green, one pound to 200 gallons of water, 

 yet discovered. The University of Cali- 

 fornia is now carrying on a series of ex- 

 periments in this line in your vicinity, 

 and it may be that something more ef- 

 fective and cheaper will be discovered 

 before the season is over. 



O. J. R., Fresno.— The best time for 

 budding the orange tree is in ^hlrch and 

 April, when the trees are putting out 

 their new growth, and the sap is flowing 

 freely. Buds inserted at this time, with 

 favorable conditions will make very good 

 trees by winter Summer budding may 

 be done in June and July, but this is not 

 so good a time as the spring. Fall bud- 

 ding may be done in September or Oct- 

 ober or even as late as November. In 

 this case the buds remain dormant until 

 Spring. 



H. K. L., Droville. — We do not know 

 of any better remedy for shot-hold fun- 

 gus, apple scab o.i curl leaf of the peach, 

 than the Bordeaux mixture. It is cheap, 

 easil\' prepared and etiective. A very 



excellent preparation, but which is some 

 what more expensive than the Bor- 

 deaux, is as follows : Dissolve six ounces 

 of common glue by boiling in one gallon 

 of water, also dissolve two pounds of car- 

 bonate of copper in four gallons of cold 

 water. Mix the two, stirring them well. 

 Dilute with warm water to make 100 gal- 

 lons. Keep constantly stirred and apply 

 with a fine spray. 



Wni. S., Merced. — The insect of which 

 you complain as damaging your pear 

 trees, and killing the new growth, is 

 probably the pear blight l)eetle (xylo- 

 bonus pyri), which by the way bears no 

 relation to the pear blight. This insect, 

 in its larval stage, works in the twigs of 

 pear trees, awl eating out the inside 

 wood causes them to wither and die. 

 The beetle itself is a very small insect, 

 about one-tenth of an inch in length, 

 deep brown and black in color. If the 

 damage is caused by this pest, the best 

 remedy is to prune well back and burn 

 the pruniugs. By this means many of 

 the insects will be destroyed in both the 

 larval and beetle stages. 



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