REINQMATTER 'mATDESERVES 

 ^ To BE WIDELY KNOWN, 



Land for Peaches. — Soil for 

 peaches needs to be thoroughly 

 underdrained. The intermedi- 

 ate wet sand lands, so far, 

 where deeply underdrained, 



J¥"'^\ ' have proved to be well adapted 



to the growth of pears and 

 ''■''-'^ plums, and particularly to that of 



small fruits. Peach trees may be grown on the sandy 

 ridges along the lake shore with success. — Mich. State 

 Ho rt icult u ra I Society. 



Resin Washes. — The use of these washes and their 

 value against scale-insects has been fully established in 

 California, and will become so in other parts of the 

 country. The plants treated should be thoroughly 

 coated over, which can be best done by a coarse spray. 

 One of the best formulas is : Resin, i8 pounds ; caustic 

 soda (70 per cent, strength), 5 pounds; fish-oil, 2]^ 

 pints, and 100 gallons of water. The first three are put 

 into a large kettle and covered with water, then kept 

 boiling hard until all are dissolved and for one hour 

 afterward. The due proportion of water can be added 

 when required for use, and the mixture run through a 

 strainer to insure equality of consistency. — Prof. C. V. 

 Riley, American Pomological Society. 



Willows from Cuttings. — As to preparing cuttings, 

 almost any time will do. I have cut them nearly every 

 month of the year, yet would prefer cutting and planting 

 right along through the month of May, as being then 

 liable to less loss and better growth. As far as willow, 

 Cottonwood and Lombardy cuttings are concerned, good, 

 fresh, healthy ones are about as sure to grow in Minne- 

 sota, if properly handled, and under the most favorable 

 circumstances, as either corn or potatoes. 

 Do your work intelligently and thoroughly, 

 and at the proper time, and success is the 

 rule. In selecting cuttings, choose clean, 

 two-year-old wood, or strong, well-ripened 

 one-year. Cut from eight to 10 inches 

 long, and as near one-half inch in diameter 

 as economical cutting will allow. Larger 

 cuttings will root and do nearly as well, 

 but are more expensive to transport and 

 handle. Never cut them when frozen. If 

 cut in autumn, or during warm days in 

 winter, pack in damp straw or sawdust 

 until wanted. These will bear transporta- 

 tion long distances, even with careless pack- 

 ing. — Mi}2}2esota State Horticultural So- 

 ciety. ' I ' " * 



What Arbor Day is Doing.— Arbor Day Section wft'h 

 in schools has proved an effective method ^Pustules"^' 

 of calling attention to the importance of 

 economic tree-planting. In New England, and all the 

 Atlantic states, there are large areas of barrens, worth- 



less for field crops, that may profitably be devoted to 

 wood-growing. Our Atlantic sand-plains that were once 

 covered with wood can be reforested. Over 10,000 

 acres on Cape Cod, which, 30 years ago, were barren 

 sand-plains, are now covered with planted forests. The 

 200 acres of forest at Woods Holl, and the 300 acres of 

 planted trees at East Greenwood, R. I., are genuine 

 object-lessons for New England. On almost every farm 

 there are waste places where trees might be earning 

 dollars for their owners, growing by the brook or river, 

 or on hillsides or overhanging cliffs too steep for cultiva- 

 tion. Arbor Day has proved as memorable for the home 

 as for the school, leading youth to share in dooryard 

 adornments, and in planting trees by the wayside. 

 Much as has been done on 

 limited sc h o o 1 - g rounds, 

 still greater improvements 

 have been made on the 

 homesteads and by the 

 roadsides. The home is the 

 objective point in the 

 hundreds of village-im- 

 provement societies re- 

 cently organized. The 

 old motto: "As is the 

 home so is the school," or 

 conversely, "As is the 

 school so is the home", sug- 

 gests the clo.se connection 

 of these vital forces. The 

 United States census shows 

 a remarkable increase of 

 interest in horticulture, 

 arboriculture and floricul- 

 ture. The reports col- 

 lected from 4,510 nursery- 

 men gfve a grand total of 

 3.386,855,778 trees, vines, 

 shrubs, roses and plants 



as then growing on their grounds. Arbor Day in schools 

 and village-improvement societies is not least among the 

 many happy influences which have contributed to this 

 grand result. — B. S. Northrop before Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society. 



The Best Four Peaches? — New Jersey growers an- 

 swered this question before the last meeting of the State 

 Horticultural Society as follows ; 



Mr. Creely — Mountain Rose, Oldmixon, Crawford 

 and Foster or Wheatland. Mr. Black — Mountain Rose, 

 Reeve's Favorite, Stump and Crawford Late for light 

 soils ; Stump, Crawford Late, Stephen Rare-ripe, Beers 

 Smock for heavy soils. President Blackwell — Mountain 

 Rose, Moore Favorite, Elberta and Beers Late. Mr. 

 Mr. Carhart — Mountain Rose, Stump, Crawford Late 

 and Keyport White. 



Manure for Fruit-Trees.— Prof. Voorhees thought 

 they required the same elements as other crops, namely 

 nitrogen, potash and phosphoric acid, with some lime. 

 He claimed that these ingredients could be had in com- 

 mercial forms at cheaper rates than in stable manure, 

 and with much less labor in handling. The organic or 



Fig. 2. Three Uredospores (3. 

 4 and 5). and Three Teleutospores 

 (6, 7 and 8): Numbers 3 and 6 are 

 Drawn as Seen on the Surface, 

 and the Others as Seen in' Opti- 

 cal Section. (See page 316.) 



