1890. 



POPULAR GARDENING. 



Ill 



The Yellow-Striped Cucumber 

 Beetle. 



The tendency of this troublesome enemy 

 to Cucumber, Melon, Squash and Pumpkin 

 vines, to get down to hard work as soon as it 

 makes its appearance, and to meet the tender 

 little plants half way, often before they are 

 really out of the ground, is one of the most 

 annoying obstacles to success in that partic- 

 ular line, which the gardener has to face. 

 Whole plantations, often of acres in extent, 

 showing thrift and promising well one day, 

 are sometimes almost ruined the next. 



The adult stage, however, is not the only 

 one in which this Insect does mischief. Our 



illnstration shows the larval stage, in which 

 it is also injurious to members of the same 

 class of plants. 



It hatches from the egg laid by the female 

 beetle on the stem of the plant near the 

 ground, and at once digs into the stem, and 

 begins its existence of gnawing. When full- 

 grown, it is about four-tenths of an inch 

 long, slender, but little thicker than an (or- 

 dinary pin, of a whitish color, with a sm.iU, 

 brownish head, and the end of the body 

 suddenly truncated. There are two or three 

 broods during tlie year. 



The destructive work of the larva is 

 usually done when we least suspect it. Sud- 

 denly a vine, apparently in perfect health 

 and thrift, begins to wilt and dies, and the 

 larva may be found in or near the stem, the 

 surlace of which is rough and corrugated, 

 showing the fatal bite of the insect. 



The surest way of protecting plants while 

 young against the adult beetle, is by me- 

 chanical barriers, such as boxes, netting, etc. ; 

 but it is much more difficult to guard them 

 against the attacks of the larva at a later 

 stage. Possibly the remedy found etfica- 

 cious against the Cabbage maggot— namely, 

 soaking the roots with lime water, made by 

 slackinga peck of lime in 'id gallons of water, 

 or weak liquid manure, maybe found useful 

 against the insects infesting the roots of 

 Cucubitacefe also, and deserves a cautious 

 but thorough trial. 



Raising Coleuses from Seeds. 



The last spring, 1 planted a package of 

 mi.\ed hybrid Coleus seeds in a warm seed 

 bed, and succeeded in getting a growth 

 from almost every seed, I imagine, and then 

 such a brilliant variety of colors, and such 

 a divergence from all that I had ever before 

 seen of the Coleus family. 



I matured two hundred and fifty plants, 

 about two hundred of which, however, are 

 discarded as not being sufficiently distinct 

 to deserve survival. 



But the fifty were, and are jewels, for I 

 have them yet, and propose to keep them as 

 long as possible. We wintered most of 

 them in our sitting-room window, where 

 they were things of beauty, as well as of 

 utility. An even temperature is what they 

 must have to thrive in, a room heated by 

 hard coal securing that to perfection. But 

 a less high temperature will serve their pur- 

 pose, and at the same time be healthier for 

 the human occupants of the room. 



I sowed the seed in a five inch pot, in 

 sifted soil of loam and sand, with deep 

 drainage ; and to secure indemnity against 



damping off when the time for feeding the 

 plants should arrive, 1 resorted to the origi- 

 nal .scheme of inserting a shallow tube in 

 the centre of the pot, into which to pour the 

 moisture. It worked like a charm. Certain 

 it is, I lost no plants that showed themselves 

 above the surface of the soil. I placed the 

 pot on bottom heat in a snuill greenhouse 

 which I have the satisfaction of possessing, 

 covered it with a pane of glass, and in due 

 time the young brilliants appeared. 



My success with them after they came up, 

 which is indeed the critical time with seed- 

 lings, is due mainly to the irrigating scheme 

 above mentioned. By means of it, I kept 

 the roots of the plants moist without endan- 

 gering the stalks, and that brought them 

 safely through until they were big enough 

 to care for themselves, so to speak. 



Among the survived fittest, is one that is 

 the especial admiration of all beholders, be- 

 cause it is altogether unique ; colors staid, 

 though manifold ; leaves fringed or rutfied, 

 and large ; in the summer dark: in the win- 

 ter like leaves of autumn. It is "beautiful 

 as a buttertly," anyhow, and its exclnsive- 

 ness does not detract from its beauty. 



By all means try raising seedlings. It is a 

 pastime full of surprise, and comparatively 

 free from failures, especially if you adopt 

 my plan, on which, I will condescendingly 

 add, there is noembargo. — V. M. in Garden- 

 ing Illu.strated. 



Received at This Office. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Bulletin of the Massachusetts State Agricultural 

 Experiment Station for Mav. Analyses of Commercial 

 Fertlllzcr-s; O .\.OiiessnKinu. lilrector, Amlicrst. .Mjiss. 4. 



Special Knlletln ..f the Bureau. .f Animal liclu-trv, 

 U. S. Department of .iKricuIlure. Proceedings i.f tlie 

 Interstate Convention of Cattlemen. 1U2. 



Report of the Statistician Xo. ?3, Department of 

 Agriculture. On the Condition of Winter Uraln : Prvi 

 gress of Cotton Planting, and Wages of Farm Lalxjr. 52. 



Repiirts from the Cimsuls of the United StaU'S for 

 March ls',jo, issued hy the Bureau of Statistics, Depart- 

 ment State. Washington. l!r.i. 



Extract from the Journal of Mycology, issued by the 

 Section of Vegetable Pathology ; on the Treatment of 

 Plant Di.seases. 'M. 



Experiment Station Record. Vol. 1, No. 3, issued by 

 the office nf Exiicriment Stat Inns. U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture; W . tt. Atwaler. Ijirector. 58. 



Insect Life, Vol. II. No. Ill, Issued by the Division of 

 Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 4S. 



Bulletin II. of the Missouri Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, on Texas fever; Edward D. Potter, Director. 

 Columbia. Mo. 6U. 



Bulletin Vol. III., No. 3, of the Ohio Agricultural Ex- 

 periment station, on Experiments with Com and Oats; 

 Charles E. Thome, Director. Columbus, O. 52. 



Pr<_K'eediugs of the Thlrty-flfth Annual Meeting of 

 the Western New Yorlt Horticultural Society ; Chas. A. 

 Green. Sec'y, R<>chester, N. V. 188. 



Bulletin 7 of the Central Experimental Farm. Depart- 

 ment ot .\gricuiture. Canada, on Two-rowed Barley ; 

 Wm. Saunders, Director. Ottawa, Can. 14. 



Eleventh Annual Report of the Secretary of State of 

 Michigan, Lansing; Relating to Farms ana Farm Pro- 

 ducts, i;-*. 



Bulletin y of the Iowa Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, on Comparative Value of F<jdder Plants ; Milk 

 Tests ; Creameries, and the Plum Curcuiio and Plum 

 gauger ; R. P. Speer, l>lrector, Ames, iiova. 4S. 



Report* of the Officers of the Experimental Farms 

 of Ontario, Can.; Wm. Saunders, Director Ottawa. 1^. 



New York Market Quotations, 



Showing Tendencies. 



Week ending Week ending 



June 21. June 7 



Apples— N. Spy, West'n per bbl 6 00® 7 i«l 6@ 7 00 



Russet. Western, per bbl 5 ® 6 00 5® 6 OO 



Strawberrles-Up-rlver, per qt. 7@ 12 



Jersey, per quart 4<» 15 8® 12 



Raspberrles.Red— Md.&Del.p.qt 8<g> 12 

 Huckleberries— .N. C, per gt. . . . 15® 16 



Blackberries— Small, per qt lIKai 12 



Cherries— Large, sweet per lb.. 12® 15 150 20 



Sour, per lb B® 10 S® 12 



G<x>seberrles— Green, per bush. ® 2 75 



Watermelons-Per lU) 18 00*27 OO 



Apples— Evaporated, 1889 8-^ U 8® 12 



Evaporated, 1888 7® SU mihi 



N.C., sliced 5® 6i| 5® BJu 



Ohio & Michigan, qrs. bbU. . 4«@ 5)^ Hi® 5V. 



Chopped, 18*1, per lb 4® 4® 4)4 



Cores and Skins, iss), per lb. tJi® l^ \%® 2 



Peaches— Del. eVp't'd. peeledSS 14® 22 11® 22 



Del., evap't'd, unpeeled 88. . 8® 10 8® lu 



N. C. sundrled, peeled 89 .. 8® 12!^ S® 11 



Southern, unpeeled 2^® n 2® 3 



Raspberries— Evap't'd 1889 28® StI 2*3 :«l 



Sundrled 1889 26® 2< 26® 2s 



Cherrles-lS89, per lb 8® 12 8® 12 



Huckleberries— 1839, per lb 8® lu 8® 111 



Blackberries— 1S89, per lb 3)4® il4 3H®4><. 



Plums— State. 1889, per lb 5)*® 6 5)^ 11 



Southern Damson, 18S9,n. lb. 5® 5)i 5® 5^ 



Potatoes-Southern, per bbl... 2 25® 3 00 a00@2 75 



Southern seconds, per bbl. . 1 00® 1 25 1 00®1 25 



State, per bbl 75®I .in 



Beets-L. I ., per II (I bunch 2 00®3 00 



Southern, per liw bunch 1 00®1 .5ii 



Onions— Egpytian p. 112 Ib.case. 200@25<l ®2 25 



Bermuda, per crate 200®250 ®2l«i 



New Orleans, per bbl 200@4UO 2001^300 



S<|uash—Floriila Marrow, p. bbl. ill! 1 25®1 50 



Croi-kneck. per crate 25® 50 



Tomaroey— .Miss. per l-^ bu.case. 2 0il®2 25 



Sav. and Chart, per crate. . 1 75^2 25 



Florida, per Ijush. crate.... 75® I 50 I 50ISI4 im 



Bermuda, per box 75(385 



Asparagus— per doz. bun 50®1 .50 .5ll®2 OO 



Cucumbers— South, p.bu.crate. total uo .'ii>®l 50 



Cabbage Norfnlk. per bbl IMCmim I OOtSl 75 



Green I'eas- :\i;irvlaiul p.^ bbl. 1 50.<i2 00 1 75® 200 



Wax Beans s,,utlicru p. ><; bbl 124wl5ll 



Per liushcl .rate 1 0U®2 25 



String Beans— Norfolk.p.H bbl, 1 00 



Southern, per crate 7S®150 



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 the Weak strong." It does not act like a stimu- 

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