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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
AuvcGcusT, 1908 
Address 
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Valuable Catalogue and Booklet ‘*Warmth” mailed free, 
LATE SOWING OF PEAS 
F. H. M., Conn. — When sowing peas late in the season 
be sure to plant seeds far enough apart so that there may 
be a good circulation of air between the plants. Also 
try spraying them with sulphide of potassium, using half 
an ounce to the gallon of water to prevent mildew, etc. 
TO FOLLOW PEAS 
E. G. F., New York. — A good crop with which to follow 
peas is millet, any of the common varieties, although be- 
cause of its large growth the Japan millet is preferable. 
Buckwheat might be used; it is an excellent crop for soiling 
purposes, or barley for late feed might be planted. Green 
barley seems to withstand the frost late in the fall better 
than almost any other green crop. 
TROUBLESOME INSECT PESTS 
W. F. W., Il. — The insect that is now most trouble- 
some to China asters is the flea beetle. Spray with arsenate 
of lead at the rate of one pound to ten gallons of water. 
To get rid of the grasshopper, mix thoroughly one pound 
of dry Paris green with fifty pounds of wheat bran. Make 
this moist but not sloppy by adding water in which a quart 
of cheap molasses has been dissolved. Place this mixture 
in spoonful piles where they are working. 
SEEDING FOR PASTURE 
M. T. B., Penn. — Sow immediately (August) in your 
corn a mixture of twenty pounds of timothy, eight pounds 
red top, eight pounds red clover and six pounds of alsike 
clover, covering with the last cultivation. If you wait 
until you get off the corn crop it will be too late for these 
grasses to get well rooted before freezing weather and the 
chances are that anything you would put in would kill out 
before spring. For a permanent meadow, there does not 
seem to be anything equal to a top dressing of barnyard 
manure every year or two years. It is surprising how per- 
manent meadows will respond to this treatment, even when 
there are only seven or eight loads put on to the acre. One 
Massachusetts man got three tons of hay the first cutting 
and at the second cutting late in the season, one and one- 
half tons. His meadows have been given this treatment 
for a number of years. 
TROUBLE AMONG CURRANTS 
R. P. I., N. H.— The shriveling of the currants may 
be due to many causes. Examine the canes for the currant 
borer. If they are tunneled, cut them out below the 
lowest point where they are hollow. Do this every year. 
Bushes weakened by San José scale or by winter injury 
often behave in the same way, not showing the injury 
until about the time when the fruit ripens. Also look 
for the scurfy, gray appearance of a shoot heavily coated 
with the scale; if found, spray the bushes this fall with 
| lime-sulphur, a recipe for which is found on page 146 of 
the April, 1907, Garpen Macazine. If only a few bushes 
are infested it would pay to take them out. Possibly 
the currant “tubercle,” which is often serious in New 
York and New Jersey, may be the cause. This is a 
fungus disease which appears as a pinkish swelling near 
the base of the cane, but occasionally the diseased canes 
have no swellings. The leaves wilt, turn yellow and fall 
off; the fruit colors prematurely, shrivels and drops. Then 
the whole cane dies. The only really practical remedy 
is to take up and burn the affected bushes at once, and 
to burn all prunings especially dead currant wood. The 
best general treatment is to cut out all diseased canes as 
soon as they look sickly, mulch the bushes heavily with 
manure this fall and spray them with Bordeaux mixture 
twice next year —once just after blossoming and again 
after the fruit has been gathered.—S. W. F. 
