26 Fruit Culture. 



REMEDIES RECOMMENDED. 



M. Blot, for preserving the apple trees from this pest,, 

 says : Employ for the seed-beds the pips of bitter apples, 

 only; give to the nursery and to the plants only as much 

 shelter as absolutely necessary; avoid those sites which are 

 low and damp; encourage the circulation of air and the 

 dessication of the soil ; surround the foot of each apple tree 

 with a mixture of soot, tobacco and find sand." 



The Aphis has been quite destructive in portions of 

 Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, North Carolina and in the South.. 

 In Kansas it is reported as on the increase, and we may 

 look for it any season in Colorado. Says an exchange : In 

 the West, saponaceous washes upon trunks and limbs (ex- 

 posed for the purpose) have been found beneficial. For 

 trees growing in loose soils one correspondent recommends 

 mounding up and packing earth around trunks, after apply- 

 ing the soap-suds. In North Carolina Peruvian Guano is 

 regarded as a preventive, both by driving the insect away 

 and invigorating the tree. Washes of soap and Peruvian 

 and other guanos are used for the branch-infesting form of 

 this species quite successfully. 



DISEASED OR SCABBY TREES. 



Remedy: J. S. Perkey. If trees become scabby or dis- 

 eased, wash them with a weak solution of lye. It kills in- 

 sects and restores the tree to health. 



THE APPLE TREE BORER. 



The flat-headed borer is the, at present, dangerous, 

 enemy to Colorado orchards. It is, when a perfect insect,, 

 a white striped beetle about three-quarters of an inch long,, 

 flying at night. It lays its eggs in June, and the worm,, 

 hatched from these eggs, eats into the wood, where, accord- 

 ing to D. S. Grimes, it feeds on the soft outer layers, exca- 

 vating a shallow, round cell under the bark, running up- 

 wards or around the tree. These cells are always filled with 



