From April until August, the flies are on the wing and lay 
their eggs in Asparagus heads when these first appear above the 
soil. When the eggs hatch the maggots work or bore downwards 
into the stem, the affected shoots soon become yellow in color, and 
are stunted in growth, finally rotting off just below the soil, 
and being utterly ruined. 
The following methods are well worth trying to get rid of 
this pest. In the early hours of the morning flies are trapped 
when resting on the young Asparagus shoots. Whilst the dew 
is on the shoots powdered charcoal is sprinkled over them to 
discourage the flies settling on them and laying their eggs. Burn 
all affected stems. 
EOMAYNE LATTA WARREN. 
Popular Gardening. 
Cedar of 
Lebanon 
Independ- 
ence 
Trees 
The 
Bayard Elm 
Kane Pine 
Historic Trees 
On the south side of Throgg's Neck, west of Fort Schuyler 
upon a part of the Huntington estate which originally belonged 
to Philip Livingston, is the finest Cedar of Lebanon in the United 
SLates. It was planted by him about 1790 and is remarkable 
for this latitude. Its height is over forty feet and its girth about 
thirteen, while the spread of its branches is over fifty. 
A row of giant Cat alp a trees planted by Richard Stockton, 
the signer, before 1770, at his country seat, Morven, on the 
King's Highway (now Stockton Street, Princeton, N. J., or the 
Lincoln Highway). They were in full blossom for the first 
time at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 
4, 1776, and so have been called the Independence Trees. 
The Bayard Elm was planted at Clermont on Bayard Lane, 
Princeton, N. J., by Caroline Bayard, daughter of Judge Samuel 
Bayard, LL. D., 1818. One who saw her said she was so small 
and slim she could just hold the tree upright. It stands today 
on a large sweep of lawn directly in front of the entrance. The 
place now belongs to Dr. Henry Van Dyke who has changed the 
name to Avalon. He writes of the Bayard Elm as follows : 
And now when morning gilds the boughs 
Of the vaulted elm at the door of my house 
I open the window and make salute: 
"God bless thy branches and feed thy root! 
Thou hast lived before, live after me 
Thou ancient friendly, faithful tree. ' ' 
One of the most famous trees in New England is the Kane 
Pine at Brattleboro, Vermont. This tree is named in honor 
of Elitha Kent Kane, the first American Arctic Explorer, who 
carved his initials on the pine. The Kane Lodge of Masons in 
New York City have just marked the house where he died in 
Havana, Cuba, with a tablet on the centennial of his birth. 
February 3rd, 1922. 
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