498 [ASSEMBLT 



est and best mould — a short, sharp stick may be used to advan- 

 tage for this purpose ; fill the hole to the top without treading, 

 then pour on as much water as this light soil will absorb 5 place 

 a strong stake near the tree and tie it firmly thereto; let the tree 

 remain in this condition until the next day, when fresh mould 

 may be thrown on and the Avhole consolidated as much as possi- 

 ble by treading; rotten leaves, or barn-yard manure, may now 

 be placed on the surface around the tree, which will shade the 

 ground from the sun's rays and prevent the rapid escape of 

 moisture. 



A gentleman in Kentucky says the yellows is caused by a grub 

 worm one inch long when full grown, largest at the head and 

 tapering down. It is propagated by a long, slender, dark colored 

 fly about the size of a yellow jacket. The eggs are laid at the 

 foot of the tree in July and August, and when hatched, the mag- 

 got descends and enters between the wood and bark of the roots, 

 on which it feeds until the leaves turn yellow and the trees ulti- 

 mately die of yellows. His remedy, which he has piu-sued eight 

 years successfully, is to place stable manure, closely packed three 

 or four inches high, about the trunk of the tree in May or June. 



This worm of which the gentleman of Kentucky speaks, is the 

 common peach worm. It never enters the hard wood of the tree 

 as the apple borer does, but confines its depredations entirely to 

 the pulp between the wood and hard bark ; he may be easily 

 discovered from the fact that gum always oozes out near the sur- 

 face of the earth in his immediate vicinity. The fly invariably 

 selects young trees with soft bark in preference to other ones. In 

 my opinion it is the enrichment of the earth contiguous to the 

 roots of the peach tree that prevents the yellows to a far greater 

 extent than the attack of the fly. If the proper ingredients 

 requisite for its growth, and the formation of its fruit, are annu- 

 ally supplied without stint, the yellows will rarely make its 

 appearance. 



Professor Mapes presented for distribution some of his Stowell 

 ever-green corn, much valued ; he had sold it for a dollar a quart, 

 equal to thirty-two dollars a bushel, /or seed. He also presented 



