THE GENESEE FAKMEE. 





The Peach Worm. — During a few years past, it appears that most peach trees about 

 here, as well as other places, have nearly or quite died in consequence of worms making 

 inroads between the bark and wood of the trees, near the surface of the ground, thus 

 nearly "girdling" the ti-ee, and causing gum to be seen. This destruction of peach 

 trees may easily be prevented by timely removing the earth from the tree to the depth 

 of three or four inches, and with some sharp and pointed instrument trace the lethal 

 paths made by the worms and kill them. Do this as soon as the buds begin to grow, 

 leaving the earth away a fcAV weeks, and then replacing it. If during summer or 

 autumn worms resume their ravages, repeat the process, and you may raise plenty of 

 luscious peaches to eat with milk and bread, one of the most delicious and' healthy 

 suppers that ever a tired Yankee stone fence builder enjoyed. Various other ways have 

 been tried to destroy the worms, but the above is the best I have tried. The largest 

 peaches I ever saw, grew on trees I planted and treated as above mentioned, while my 

 neighbors trees mostly died from the effects of worms. A person can thus " worm" 

 from fifty to a hundred trees in a day. A few days thus spent during each year would 

 enable farmers to raise plenty of peaches for their own use, and a few loads to sell — 

 provided they are not killed by freezing. Fruit trees not growing on land descending 

 northward in this latitude and changable climate, are more liable to be injured by 

 freezing than are trees near the ocean. 



Should a reader of the Genesee Farmer know of a better plan to preserve peach trees 

 from worms, I would like to know it. Merchant Kelly. — Bentonville, Ind. 



TnE Fruit Crop — "Weather, &c. — The fruit crop in "Western New York, after passing 

 through several trying changes of temperature, promises well, and may now be considered 

 out of danger. On the evening of the 18th of May we had a violent thunder shower, 

 accompanied with some hail and a great deal of Avind, that in many places blew down 

 houses and uprooted large trees. It injured the peaches, pears, and plums considerably ; 

 apples were just in a sufficiently backward state to escape. "What made it worse, were 

 several cold, rainy days that followed. The peach trees looked worse than we ever saw 

 them, and for a short time all hopes for a crop were abandoned. On the last days of May, 

 however, it became warm, and trees recovered rapidly — the curled and bloated leaves 

 dropped, new healthy leaves pushed out, and the fruit that remained on swelled rapidly. 

 Nothing can afford a stronger proof that it is cold and variable weather that affects the 

 peach leaf, than the fact that as soon as we have a warm and steady temperature, the sickly 

 leaves fall, and the tree assumes a healthy liue. 



From the first of June up to this time (l7th), we have had a remarkably favorable time 

 for vegetation, and the growth made aniong trees and plants is fully equal to that of our 

 best seasons at this time. On the 14th, 15th, and 16th it was excessively warm, the ther- 

 mometer ranging from 94° to 96" in the shade; the atmosphere at the time was dry, and 

 vegetation for the moment seemed on the point of being -suspended, but a timely shower 

 came, succeeded by a more temperate warmth, and now growth is luxuriant. 



Green peas grown in the open ground appeared in the Rochester markets on the 13th 

 June for the first time this season, we believe, and in two or three days after that Avere 

 abundant, cheap, and good. The Early Kent, as far as we know, beats the othei* early 

 sorts nearly a week. 



On the 12th Baimmn's May, Early Purple Guigne, Belle W Orleans, and Early Biehmond 

 cherries were ripe. The Belle d'' Orleans is the earliest light colored cherry Ave have 

 yet seen. 



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