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causes it to appear sickly, and it does not grow. I have dug around it, 

 and applied wood-ashes and soot, but still they are not expelled. Can 

 some of your practical fruit-growers suggest a remedy ? The soil is 

 sandy, produces good corn and wheat. A Bartlett pear tree 20 feet 

 distant, is healthy." 



Dr. Trimble — The ants do not eat the buds and blossoms. They go up 

 to milk their cows, the bark lice that do destroy the trees. If ho can get 

 rid of the lice the ants will not climb the trees. 



The Red-Cane Raspberry. 



J. A. Donaldson writes from St. Joseph, Berrian county, Michigan, to 

 call the attention of the Club to an excellent kind of raspberry, which he 

 ciiltivates : 



" It evidently belongs to the occidentalis species. The fruit is rather 

 small, when compared with the Antwerp, dark purple, of good quality, 

 but too soft for market. The canes are red, covered with a bloom, and 

 roots at the tips. It is remarkably hardy aud productive, and for 

 home consumption is far aliead of the Antwerp, Franconia or 

 Fastolf. It answers the description of the American red-cane of C. 

 I)owning and the purple-cane of some other writers. My object in writing 

 this is to inquire why the Club never includes it in their list of raspberries 

 for general culture, as it must be known to its leading members. The 

 Doolittle black-cap promises well here. It is of fine size for a black-cap, 

 and profusely productive. The peach trees are beginning to bloom, and 

 the prospect is good for a large crop. There is probably a thousand acres 

 planted to peach trees within eight miles of this place. The orchards vary 

 in size from three to sixty acres." 



John G. Bergen. — The berry described is probably the old red-cane, 

 ■which used to be extensively grown in this vicinity, but had to give way 

 to better sorts for market. The berry is very good, but not as large nor 

 of such an attractive color as the Antwerp, &c., and its softness is objection- 

 able. It is valuable for a garden on one account — it will not spread like 

 some other sorts. 



Insects that Infest Peach Trees. 



Attention was called to a gree^i louse that infests peach leaves to a 

 great extent in some localities in this vicinity, causing the leaves to curl; 

 and the question is asked if this is the cause of the disease called peach 

 leaf curl ? 



Dr. Trimble and Mr. Bei'gen both stated that this is not the cause — that 

 this is the same insect that has long infested peach trees, snowball and 

 currant bushes, and when very plenty, they do kill the fruit. Dr. Trimble 

 stated it as his opinion that the cause of so many peach orchards failing is 

 trying to grow them on the same ground after the first orchard fails. 



Rev. Mr. Weaver said that he had found no difficulty in the soil of West- 

 chester county in growing a succession of peach trees upon the same 

 ground. And as to the curl killing the fruit, I must say that my trees 

 were much affected with the curl last year, yet produced well. 



J. H. Arnold, of Salem, Henry county, Iowa, says, to destroy the canker 



