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Late in the season, or when for any reason the tomato 

 cannot be obtained in its best condition, much more 

 difficulty is experienced in giving it a good appearance 

 at table. We are then treated to the inevitable tomato 

 salad, tomato sauce, tomatoes scalloped, tomatoes stuffed, 

 tomatoes stewed, tomatoes iar/e, tomatoes en diahlc\ 

 etc. So long as the essential flavor remains these may 

 be excellent articles. 

 When, however, autumn 

 frosts have cut down the 

 garden crop, we are re- 

 duced to the canned frui' 

 for our supply. This lat- 

 ter, to be thoroughly good, 

 must be produced in a 

 soil and climate where the 

 tomato reaches its very 

 best quality ; otherwise it 

 is harsh in taste, and by 

 no means suitable to any 

 but the strongest stom- 

 achs. And the climate and 

 soil which best suit this in- 

 valuable fruit are those 

 which produce in perfec- 

 tion the melon, the peach, 

 and the sweet potato. — 

 Selciled. 



A/isiiifi- by Dr. C. V. Riley. — The description of the 

 insect which is damaging the cabbages does not corres- 

 pond exactly with any of our well-known cabbage pests. 

 After careful consideration I am inclined to think that 

 the insect is the garden web-worm {Eiiryivcon laulalu], 

 or some close ally. The cabbage pionea {Pionea nino- 

 sa//s) corresponds in the habit of Inirrowing into the head, 



Fig. 2. JuGi.ANS Sieboldiana. — Natural Size. 



A Cabbage Pest. — What will destroy worms infest- 

 ing my early cabbage ? The worms are larva? of a small 

 ash colored moth, the body an inch or less in length 

 and probably a line or less in thickness. It is doubt- 

 less native to this region, as it has been here to my 

 knowledge fifteen or twenty years, and I do not find 

 anything like it described in any of the books on injuri- 

 ous insects. 



The larvse is quite small ; perhaps not more than a 

 line in length at first and at maturity not one a half 

 inch. In color when first hatched it is gray, later 

 changing to blue and finally green. 



Fig. 3. Juglans cordiformis. — Natural Size. 



The moths are very abundant from ist of June till ist 

 of August, or later, depositing their eggs — in the even- 

 ing—on cabbage and all related plants, such as turnips, 

 radishes, etc. The larvse eat the leaves and work into 

 the heads of the cabbage so much as to often spoil it en- 

 tirely for eating. What can I do to destroy them or 

 stop their work ? — W. C. C, Oregon. 



and in fact I should be inclined to think that this insect 

 might be the one intended were it not for the fact that 

 Mr. Cusick says that the full-grown larva:' is green, 

 whereas the pionea larva: remains bluish or purplj = h 

 until it spins its cocoon. The exact determination, 

 however, will not affect the matter of a remedy, which 

 should be, spraying with Paris green or London purple 

 when the cabbages are young, or with a dilute kerosene 

 emulsion as gathering time approaches. 



Bean Weevils. — I send a box of beans which are 

 much infested by a little beetle. The seed was sound 

 last spring, but the crop is being injured in the bin. 

 What is the remedy ? — John F. Rupp, 



[The insect is the bean weevil {Hrii,liii\ Fahcv). 

 There are many species of these weevils, some liv- 

 ing in corn, and one, the common pea beetle, liv- 

 ing in peas. The ripe beans can be easily rid of 

 the pests by placing them in a tight box or barrel 

 and then pouring in a few spoonfuls of bisulphide 

 of carbon. The vapor — which is explosive — will 

 i]uickly dispatch the insects.] 



Pascal Celery. — In 1890 I grew six varieties of 

 celery — Golden Heart, Golden Self-Blanching, 

 Kalamazoo, Sulham Prize Pink, New Rose and Giant 

 Pascal, and the latter was so much superior to all others 

 in growth, size, appearance and tenderness, that I wish 

 to urge your readers to try it this year. 



I have fine success growing celery plants by sowing 

 the seed in drills as early as ground can be got in good 

 order, laying a narrow board over the drill-row and by 



