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THE POMOLOGIST AND GARDENER. 



1871 



cool, dark room, until roots are formed; then re- 

 move to a light, moderately warm room, and give 

 plenty of light and air. Keep Hyacinths in the 

 coolest room you have, anything above freezing 

 will answer, and near the light. Flowers of the 

 Hyacinth are often ruined by bringing them into a 

 very hot, dry unventilated room. Our plan is to 

 keep a stand containing our stock of Hyacinths in 

 the parlor, which is kept most of the time but a few 

 degrees above freezing. From this room they are 

 taken as needed — one or two of each color — to 

 the sitting room, or the dining room, for special 

 occasions, but always return to their cool quarters 

 for the night. By this method they not only flower 

 well, but keep in bloom a long time. Change the 

 water occasionally, if it becomes discolored.— Vice. 



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Rnbns Odoratns or FloTverlng Raspberrrj &«• 



Ed. Pomologist and Gardener :— Permit me to 

 make a few inquiries through your Journal. 



First. Where can I obtain rooted plants of Ru- 

 bus Odoralus or Flowering Raspberry, Rubxis Gha- 

 mcemtyrtis or Cloudberry, called also sometimes Knot- 

 berry, Rnhus Triflorus or Dwarf Red Raspberry, 

 R^ilus Setosus of Bigelow, {Rtiius Hisjndus var. Se- 

 tosus of Torrey & Gray,) Rtibus Trivialis of Mich- 

 oux, or Low Bush Blackberry, Rubus Oaneifolius or 

 Sand Blackberry, and Riibus Hispidus of Linnteus, 

 or Trailing Swamp Blackberry. 



As an amateur horticulturist, it is my wish to 

 have all these on my grounds with other species of 

 the genus, foreign and native. I find I have omitted 

 one species, to me not accessible— given in Wood's 

 Botany as Rubm Vutkomis, though not mentioned 

 by Beck. 



Second. Can any one tell me which of the culti- 

 vated Red Raspberries belong to the Rubus Striga- 

 sus ; and is not the Ellisdale a hybrid between the 

 American Red and the Black Caps ? 



Third. What species of the Blackberry section 



of the genus Rubus are now in cultivation, and by 



what names are they known to cultivators? 



EiawcUTia, Kansas. C. W. Johnson. 



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Garden IHoIes. 



Ed. Pomologist and Gardener. — Every gar- 

 den is more or less troubled with moles, and every 

 house-keeper is under the necessity of watching 

 out for rats, and almost everybody knows how 

 troublesome they are when they take possession of 

 a house, granary or cellar. I have found that 

 potash placed in their holes, runs, or places of re- 

 sort, effectually cleans the premises in a very short 

 time. I had the pleasure of seeing one large mole 

 which had helped himself to a small dose of potash 

 found in his walk, and he looked like a dilapidated 

 and superanuated scallawag. I dont think he ever 

 troubled any body's garden again. C. B. 



Nawioo, 111. 



ptomoloQ]^. 



Db. S. H. KBiDELEAnGH, Editob, Clarinda, Iowa. 



^^"Send in the IN8ECTS. — Dr. K. is chairman of thu Com- 

 mittee on Entomology for the State Horticultural Society, 

 and would take it as a favor to be furnished with specimens 

 of insects from the various localities of the State, by mail 

 during this year. Those sending will please state all they 

 know concerning the habits of the insects sent; what they 

 are found feeding on, etc. 



The Codling moth or Apple "Worm.—^Carpocapea 

 Fomonetla.)— Its Natural History. 



Bt D. B. Wieb, Lacon, III. 



Ed. Pomologist and Gardener: — The worm 

 that is so destructive to our apples is the caterpillar 

 or larim of a beautiful little moth, known to entomol- 

 ogists as Carpocapsa PonwneUa order, Lopidoptera 

 family of Fortricidm. Knowing from experience 

 that if we are well acquainted with all the habits 

 and changes of an insect, and the exact time at 

 which it undergoes certain changes, the better we 

 are prepared to combat or destroy it. I will there- 

 fore give a full description of this most noxious in- 

 sect and the time ol its changes here. Persons liv- 

 ing farther south should add I think about a week 

 for each 100 miles they are south of this point, i. e. 

 the moth will come out a week earlier 100 miles 

 south of here, two weeks 300 miles south, etc., and 

 north of here a week later for each one hundred 

 miles. But a more certain rule to go by is, that the 

 moth leaves its cocoon as the apple blossoms fall, 

 and commences to deposit its eggs in the blossom 

 end or calyx of the young apples 4 to 6 days there- 

 after. We will now follow an egg and its produce 

 throughout a season. 



I use Mr. C. V. Riley's, (State Entomologist of 

 Missouri) figures, and in part his descriptions. Let- 

 ter a in the engraving represents a section of an ap- 

 ple which has been attacked by an apple worm, 

 showing its burrowings and channel of exit at the 

 left ; b the point where the egg is always laid on 

 the young fruit, where it is hatched, and the dark 

 line shows where at this time the tiny little worm 

 burrowed its way into the fruit, where it feeds on 

 the pulp and substance of it for 33 to 36 days when 

 it becomes full grown, and makes its exit through 

 the channel to the left, appearing at this time as at 

 letter e. The worm while young is yellowish white 

 with a black head, it is a true nearly hairless cater- 

 pillar, having six horny legs near the head, eight 

 fleshy legs near the middle of the body, and two at 

 the posterior extremity. All other grubs found in 

 apples, such as the larvse of the Plum Curculio, etc., 

 have no legs. As the worm matures it acquires a 

 pinkish color, many of them being of a bright pink 

 when they emerge from the apple, especially about 

 the head. 



