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No; and we are not sure how much good it will do the stake. 

 Whatever preservative effect there may be will be increased by treat- 

 ing the stakes some time in advance and allowing them to dry thor- 

 oughly in the sunshine. The same process will also set free some 

 volatile matters in the oil and remove danger of injuring the roots. 



Resistance of the Tokay. 



Are Tokay vines more resistant to phylloxera than other grape vines? 



The Tokay vine usually resists phylloxera longer than other 

 vinifera vines. It does not have very high resistance as compared with 

 resistant vines of the American class, but it is surely to be found 

 surviving and bearing fruit in phylloxerated districts after other vines 

 of its species, which are grown in this State, have succumbed to the 

 insect. 



Fig Wasp for Bearing. 



What must be done with a Smyrna fig to make it bear? Small figs 

 come on and before they get ripe they fall off. Some say that we will 

 have to get a wasp to sting the figs before they will remain on and 

 get ripe. 



A small, almost microscopic, wasp grows in wild or capri figs 

 and in summer while the Smyrna figs are on the tree they go out of 

 the fig they grew in and go into young Smyrnas. They do not sting 

 them at all, they simply carry pollen into the fig and that makes the 

 seeds mature and the figs stay on and ripen. You should get some 

 capri figs at the right time from some Smyrna fig grower or grow 

 some yourself. If one has only a single Smyrna tree it might be 

 possible to graft some capri figs on the branches and the work 

 would look after itself and space would be saved, though this is not 

 to be advocated for orchards. 



Figs from Cuttings. 



Which is the most successful method to propagate fig trees, and the 

 proper time to do itf 



Put in, about February, good cuttings of last year's well-matured 

 shoots. They usually root freely. 



Summer Cover in Olive Orchard. 



Is there a leguminous crop which can be grown in summer with 

 irrigation ordinarily given olive trees? 



The cow pea is the most available summer-growing legume. But 

 with the irrigation "ordinarily given to olive trees" you would not 

 get much growth of cow peas and you would spoil the olive crop 

 coming into the autumn with weary-looking trees and shriveled fruit, 

 which might plump-up with the rains, but never get to be first-class. 



