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Chester Coleman — Proper ladders may be well employed thafe 

 we may reach every nest and destroy it. How can we avoid of 

 kill the peach tree worm : 



Prof. Mapes — In the first place be careful not to set the trees 

 below the cotyledon circle, for if you cover that part with soil 

 you injure the tree. I use boiling hot water on the foot of the 

 tree ; this being done at the right time cooks the worm in its hole, 

 and moreover if you keep the trees in high condition by properly 

 shortening in and the other known methods, the worm will sel- 

 dom attack them j it is much more fond of trees less healthy. 



Col. Travers — I have made a compost of fresh eowdung and 

 ashes in equal parts, well mixed and applied around the base of 

 the peach trees with good effect. 



Prof Mapes. — My soda mixture kills insects. Heat soda red 

 hot in an iron pot, this drives out of it the carbonic acid. Dis- 

 solve one pound weight of the soda in one gallon of water, wash 

 the trunks and branches of trees and vines with this once in the 

 spring and again in summer. It will kill all insects, clean off 

 dead bark and mosses, and make them all smooth and polished. 

 My neighbor Mr. Robert Rennie has used this wash liberally, and 

 his trees all look as if they had been polished by hand. 



Quinces are not raised sufficient for the market ; the fine ones 

 sell for more money than oranges ; Scofield, of Jersey, raises such. 

 He has received fourteen hundred dollars for one year's crop of one 

 acre of quinces. Mr. Wilson, who is connected with one of our 

 banks, is engaged in setting out quinces, and has grown some 

 thousands of them, already yielding him wagon loads of fine fruit ; 

 they give a profit three times greater than an ordinary farm crop. 

 The quince tree loves salt and soda. 



WEEDS AND WEEDING. 



Mr. Mapes — This was a most interesting meeting and elicited a 

 fund of information which shall be long remembered by those 

 who were present. 



