3^o Notes and Gleanings. 



Root Lice on Apple Trees. — To destroy these insects, the Prairie Farmer 

 advises to boil cheap tobacco or stems in water, and after the strength has been 

 extracted, to skim out the stems and leaves, and to each bucketful of the water add 

 a quart of soap. When well mixed and cooled, it is fit for use. Fill a barrel 

 with the mixture, and plunge the roots of the trees in it ; and when one lot is taken 

 out for planting, another may be put in. In this way, with but little loss of time, 

 the trees will be immersed long enough to kill all the lice there may be on the 

 roots. 



Peach Trees in Florida. — Charles Beecher, in Old atid New, gives a 

 select list of Florida-grown peaches, with the time of ripening : Hale's Early, 

 June 10-15 > Early Tillotson, Yellow St. John's, June 15-20 ; Canary, June 30 ; 

 Amelia, July i-io ; Bergen's Yellow, July 10 ; Grosse Mignonne, July 15 ; Late 

 Admirable, July 20 ; Oldmixon Free, July 15-30; Great Eastern, July 20 ; Pu- 

 celle de Malines, July 10 ; Late Rareripe, August i ; La Grange, August 15-30 ; 

 Gaylord, August 15; Owen's Seedling, August 1-15 ; Osceola, September i; 

 Picquet's Late, September 1-15 ; Fruitland Seedhng, September 5-20 ; Presi- 

 dent Church, September 15 ; Lady Parham, October i ; Baldwin's Late, Octo- 

 ber 10 ; Julia, October 30. 



The Yellows in the Peach. — This destructive disease is said to be so 

 prevalent in Ohio, Michigan, and Illinois, that the greatest care is necessary in 

 planting either the pits or trees to secure those free from disease. The subject 

 has been discussed at a meeting of the Fruit Grower's Association of St. Jo- 

 seph's, Mich., and a committee was appointed to consider what action was desira- 

 ble to prevent its spread and get rid of it where it has already appeared. We 

 do not doubt that such measures will be adopted as will be effectual, but it must 

 be remembered that only the most radical treatment will avail ; half-way meas- 

 ures are of no use whatever. The absolute and entire destruction of every tree 

 wholly or partly affected is the only effectual preventive. 



