186 FRUIT CULTURE. 



to mature. Whether any mode of treatment 

 can make it yield a crop of average size is yet 

 to be proved. Jersey Queen is a pistillate of 

 great beauty and excellence, and very late; 

 moderately productive. Jucunda and Tri- 

 omphe de Gand are two older European kinds, 

 which under generous cultivation, in strong 

 soils and with hill culture, give good results. 

 Wilder is a superb fruit, but has many barren 

 plants and is unproductive. Hervey Davis is 

 excellent in qualitj^, but small. Belmont is a 

 seedling raised by Warren Heustis, which has 

 proved to be very late, large, productive, and 

 valuable. Bubach, No. 5, is a large and pro- 

 ductive kind that is popular everywhere. For 

 the rest, we must depend upon the catalogues, 

 making trial of novelties in very limited quan- 

 tities. 



The white grub of the May Beetle, or dor- 

 bug, as also Root and Crown Borers, often 

 work upon old beds and are very destructive. 

 Dusting with air-slacked lime or watering with 

 Paris-green or hellebore will check them. In 

 such cases it is generally better to destroy the 

 beds and the insects together. Leaf rollers, 

 cut worms, and other insects which feed upon 

 the foliage, may be destroyed by Avatering with 

 hellebore, or, after the fruit is matured, with 



