1892 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
i87 
Farmers’  Club  Discussion. 
( Continued .) 
— not  once  in  every  two,  three  or  five 
years,  as  is  so  often  the  case  with  persons 
trying'  anything-  of  this  kind.  It  is  only 
by  persistent  use  that  its  efficiency  can  be 
proved.  This  is  a  cheap,  simple  and  very 
effective  tree  wash,  not  only  against  the 
peach  tree  borer,  but  numbers  of  other 
insects  injurious  to  the  peach.  That  a 
few  applications  of  the  wash  would 
entirely  destroy  this  troublesome  insect 
would  be  a  doubtful  assumption;  but  that 
its  depredations  can  be  very  much  les¬ 
sened  and  many  of  the  grubs  destroyed, 
besides  giving  the  trees  good,  clean  and 
healthy  bark,  and  therefore  more  vigor, 
there  is  no  doubt  whatever. 
The  borer  is  a  common  enemy  of  the 
peach  tree  and  can  be  successfully  com¬ 
batted  only  by  persistent  effort.  Just  at 
present  yelLows  must  be  met  by  peach 
growers  by  more  thorough  and  syste¬ 
matic  culture,  by  planting  in  smaller 
areas,  isolating  the  orchards  more  and  a 
thorough  and  persistent  system  of  stamp¬ 
ing  out  the  disease.  a.  n.  brown. 
Delaware  Fruit  Exchange. 
Nothing-  Like  The  Knife. 
Here,  in  Livingston  County,  N.  Y.,  I 
have  tried  several  different  washes  for 
the  peach  tree  borer  and  expended  quite 
a  considerable  sum  in  experimenting ; 
but  so  far  I  have  found  nothing  so  good 
as  the  knife.  After  each  trial  of  the  dif¬ 
ferent  washes  during  the  summer  months 
I  have  always  found  the  borers  still  at 
work  and  thriving.  Some  advocate  the 
use  of  a  wire,  but  I  have  found  the  knife 
better.  As  the  hole  meanders  around, 
follow  it  and  open  the  bark  until  the 
borer  is  found  and  then  kill  it.  The 
wire  will  only  follow  to  the  first 
turn  and  then  the  pest  is  lost.  Some 
think  it  worse  to  cut  the  bark  than  to 
let  the  nuisance  escape,  but  as  the  wound 
becomes  callused  over  so  far  as  the  borer 
has  gone,  I  find  it  does  no  injury  to  re¬ 
move  the  dead  bark  where  the  pest  has 
gone.  JOHN  F.  WHITE. 
Rubus  phcenicolasius  (the  so-called 
VVineberry)  is  not  hardy  at  the  Rural 
Grounds.  Every  year  the  plants  have 
been  either  killed  outright  or  killed  to 
the  ground.  Upon  our  unsupported  testi¬ 
mony,  however,  we  hesitated  to  state 
this.  Under  date  of  February  25  we 
received  the  following  letter  from  0.  W. 
Aldrich,  the  vice-president  of  the  Ohio 
Horticultural  Society  : 
Editor  Rural  New-Yorker. 
Dear  Sir:  The  Japanese  Wineberry  sent  out  two 
years  ago  as  perfectly  hardy,  has  been  killed  to  the 
ground  this  winter.  All  the  plants,  both  the  original 
one  from  the  Introducer,  and  those  one  year  old 
propagated  from  It,  are  killed.  The  thermometer 
showed  a  minimum  temperature  of  lOdeg.at  my  place. 
Columbus.  Ohio.  o.  w.  aldrich. 
Ellwanger  &  Harry  could  enlighten  us 
upon  the  question.  They  have  had  the 
plant  for  many  years . 
The  following  note  is  from  Mr.  Hiram 
Presley,  of  Port  Huron,  Mich.,  “The 
Rural  No.  2,  Potato  fills  the  bill  for  an 
intermediate  variety.  It  has  more  good 
points  than  any  of  the  300  sorts  grown  by 
me  last  season.  Hut  what  I  am  looking 
for  is  an  extra  early,  combining  the  three 
good  points — earliness,  productiveness 
and  quality,  a  combination  pretty  hard 
to  find  in  an  extra  early  variety.  My 
ideal  early  would  have  to  be  as  early  as 
the  Ohio,  as  productive  as  the  Rural  New- 
Yorker  No.  2,  and  in  quality  equal  to  the 
Snowflake.  Hut  as  the  leading  varieties 
of  potatoes  now  seem  incapable  of  pro¬ 
ducing  true  seeds,  it  is  likely  that  I  shall 
never  realize  my  ideal.  Last  season, 
after  many  attempts  and  a  great  deal  of 
labor,  I  succeeded  in  crossing  the  Rural 
No.  2  and  Brownell's  Winner  (with  pollen 
from  the  latter)  and  three  seed  balls  were 
the  result  ;  but  after  they  were  about 
half  grown  they  dropped  off.  Hut  I  do 
not  despair  of  yet  making  the  cross.” - 
Mr.  Samuel  Wilson,  the  seedsman 
of  Mechanicsville,  Hucks  County,  Pa., 
seems  not  to  have  lost  his  temper  while 
reading  our  review  of  his  catalogue — 
page  1 19,  February  20.  Here  is  his  reply 
in  his  own  words,  punctuation  and  ortho¬ 
graphy  : 
“  Ed.  chief  R.  N.  Yorker.  Dear  sir. 
“please  accept  thanks  for  recent  coppy 
“  Rural  N.  Yorker,  containing  criticism 
“  on  my  92  catalog,  will  you  kindly  in- 
“  form  me  if  you  were  sober  when  writ- 
“  ing  said  criticism  and  about  what  time 
“  in  the  day  it  was  written. 
“  Yours  Resy  samuel  wilson.” 
“  P.  S.  How  did  you  enjoy  your  va¬ 
cation  at  the  Water  gap,  Pa.,  last 
“  summer,  you  seemed  to  be  troubled 
“  with  a  marning  headache.  Try  Iveelys 
“gold  cure.  s.  w.” 
It  is  just  a£  well,  perhaps,  that  Mr. 
Wilson  should  make  merry  over  our  re¬ 
view  of  his  catalogue  as  that  he  should 
assume  to  he  indignant  and  essay  to 
justify  what  is  manifestly  unjustifiable. 
Still,  it  may  happen  with  him  (if  he  hopes 
to  continue  his  business),  as  it  has  hap¬ 
pened  with  others,  that  he  will  one  day 
have  occasion  to  regard  The  R.  N.-Y.’s 
well-meant  criticisms  from  a  more  serious 
point  of  view.  The  editor  of  The  R.  N.-Y. 
has  not  visited  the  Delaware  Water  Gap 
since  the  summer  of  1887 . 
Direct. 
- Robert  J.  Burdette  :  “I  think  in 
families  where  the  rod  is  a  necessity  that 
in  many  instances  it  should  be  applied 
to  the  backs  of  the  parents.  Not  always, 
but,  ’most  always.” 
4  4  There  are  some  people  who  do  all 
their  running  for  heaven  after  the  doctor 
tells  them  they  can  never  get  well.” 
- Bishop  Potter  :  44  There  cannot  be 
great  wealth  without  great  temptations 
to  indolence,  to  vice,  to  social  and  politi¬ 
cal  corruption.  There  cannot  be  great 
wealth  in  idle  hands — the  hands  of  those 
who  have  not  made  or  accumulated  it — 
without  an  accentuation  of  these  dan¬ 
gers.” 
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