526 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
July 
NOTES FROM THE RURALGROUNDS 
Potatoes Ahead of the Beetle. —For 
the first time in many years we have 
grown potatoes to the blooming stage 
without interference from the Colorado 
beetle. Fig. 230 is a snap-shot taken 
June 13 at a row of the Vermont Gold 
Coin variety planted April 19 in soil of 
very ordinary fertility, but with a liberal 
application of good potato fertilizer. By 
liberal we mean as near to the rate of 
1,000 pounds to the acre as we care to 
estimate in a small way. The seed pota¬ 
toes used \Vcre vigorous examples of their 
kind, being selected for good form and 
moderate size when dug last Fall, kept 
cool and dormant throughout the Winter, 
and “greened” by exposure to light two 
weeks before planting. They came up 
promptly, and have since grown at a most- 
satisfactory rate. Only an occasional 
hardshell beetle has been found up to this 
writing, and it almost appears as if the 
crop may get through with a single appli¬ 
cation of arsenite. It is too much to hope 
they will reach maturity without an at¬ 
tack from this energetic pest. 
Bug Troubles of the Season. —It is 
difficult to account for the tardy appear¬ 
ance of the Potato beetle this year. Per¬ 
haps the hard Winter had much to do with 
GOLD COIN POTATOES. June 13. Fig. 230. 
it, though there has been a diminution in 
the severity of this pest for several sea¬ 
sons, which has usually been accredited 
to the more persistent use of arsenicals by 
potato growers. The growing of this 
vegetable in a small way has been aban¬ 
doned to a considerable extent, and the 
large planters do such thorough work that 
comparatively few adult beetles escape to 
winter over. Last Spring, however, they 
appeared, as usual, as soon as the pota¬ 
toes came up, and had to be fought 
throughout the season, keeping up a con¬ 
tinuous performance in the way of re¬ 
peated broods. 
The Cabbage root-maggot appeared 
early, and has been very destructive. A 
promising plot of early cauliflower and 
cabbage was ruined, scarcely three per 
cent surviving, although the salt remedy 
was applied as soon as the trouble could 
be noticed. Next season we shall try the 
paper pulp method of prevention as re¬ 
cently described in The R. N.-Y. Cut¬ 
worms appeared in large numbers, but re¬ 
mained quite torpid during the cool 
weather that so long prevailed, and have 
disappeared without doing extensive dam¬ 
age. Fruit tree aphids, so troublesome 
last year, have been very scarce, and the 
new growth looks much better in conse¬ 
quence. The Asparagus beetles and Rose 
chafers have been incredibly numerous . 
and destructive. The former swarmed 1 * 3 d f 7 pIaCe ’ c t °. v< F m g w , lth a few inches 
, . . . °f earth, over which m.w be placed boards 
over the young shoots, fairly crusting or flat stones to keep out mice and squir- 
;hem with eggs, but was controlled with 
dust sprays of Paris green and flour, 
blown on in the early morning while the 
plants were wet with dew. It is not easy 
to find an efficient insecticide that will 
stick to the filmy foliage of asparagus, 
but flour and arsenicals will do it. We 
use a pound of flour to each teaspoonful 
of Paris-green or arsenoid, well mixed 
and thinly applied with a good dust gun. 
Of course the poisons are only applied to 
young plantings grown on for future cut¬ 
tings, and not to shoots intended for 
market or home consumption. As every 
gardener knows, asparagus for the table 
is cut as fast as the shoots reach tlu 
required size through the whole season 
none being allowed to grow up, as plants 
seldom send up new growth if any shoots 
reach full development. As the edibh 
shoots are usually cut within 24 hours 
after coming through the soil, the eggs 
have no chance to develop, and are washec 
away in the kitchen preparation of the 
esculent. This clean cutting of mature 
asparagus and consequent destruction of 
eggs does much to keep down the pest, 
but it propagates very freely on young 
beds, and in the late growth after the 
cutting season, as the life cycle is short 
and there are many broods in a season 
This pest might be kept under reasonable 
control if growers would systematical!} 
treat young leds and late growths. 
The Detestable Rose Bug.— The Rose 
bug or chafer is really a beetle, as he has 
hard wing coverts, but he is so abomin¬ 
ably destructive to the fairest flowers 
and fruits of the season that "bug” seems 
a good enough name for him. The Rose 
bug is a rather local affair, only trouble¬ 
some in a few Eastern States, but in its 
years of plenty is one of the most dis¬ 
couraging of Spring pests, swarming over 
the loveliest roses and most attractivr 
blooms, reducing the foliage of shrubs 
and young trees to tattered shreds, and 
devouring the incipient grape clusters b\ 
wholesale. 1 hey have not been parlieu 
larly numerous for the last two seasons 
but have now evidently entered on one 
of their periods of abnormal*increase, and 
are making up their arrears of destruc¬ 
tion. 1 hey appeared on the first white 
paeonies and swarmed over the roses and 
the young foliage of cherry and plum 
trees. I hey have now invaded the vine 
yards, devouring blossoms, young grapes 
and foliage indiscriminately, and fairly 
encrust the blooms of the late Deutzias 
and of the tree lilac, Syringa Japonica, 
as well as the catkins of the chestnut. 
No practical remedy for the control of this 
nuisance has been proposed, as insecticide 
poisons have only a slow and feeble action 
on them. 1 heir preference for unfolding 
blooms prevents any thorough treatment 
such as may be given regular leaf-eating 
insects. I hough having no disagreeable 
odor or other peculiarity offensive tc 
human perception, they are shunned by al! 
birds, even by domestic fowls, the mosi 
reliable insect destroyers of all. Ento¬ 
mologists say they are too spiny to make 
an enjoyable morsel—at any rate, a bun 
gry chicken will turn from them in dis¬ 
gust after the first experience. 
Catch the Bugs. —Hot water at 12( 
degrees and soap solutions do some good 
and Bordeaux Mixture has been used 
in a limited way as a preventive with 
some success, but the only effective meth 
od of reducing their numbers is the actual 
capture of the insects by hand picking 
or by shaking them in an umbrella-shaped 
collector, held under the infested plants. 
As they are clumsy and not very timid 
great numbers may be thus trapped in tlu 
cool of the morning and thrown into a 
vessel containing kerosene and water. The 
hunt must be kept up as long as they 
appear in quantity. We captured about 
1,100 in four days in this manner on a 
small seedling cherry tree, scarcely six 
feet high, and thus saved it from defolia 
.lion. Aside from the damage to grapes, 
chestnuts and young nursery stock, the 
greatest harm done by Rose bugs is in 
discouraging the planting of roses and 
choice ornamental shrubs. 
Planting Cherry Pits —It is quite im¬ 
portant that cherry pits intended for 
planting should not be allowed to dry 
much after removal from the fruit. They 
should be washed clean and dried suffi¬ 
ciently in the shade to prevent mold, then 
mixed with clean, moist sand and buried 
rels. I hey may be planted either late in 
the Fall or in Spring, as soon as the frost 
is out of the ground, sowing them thinly 
in rows three feet apart in rather dry 
soil, enriched with old stable manure. 
I hey should not be covered 
two inches deep. Jf planted 
it may be well to cover the 
old boards as a protection. 
more than 
in Autumn 
rows with 
Clean and 
careful cultivation is needed for a year or 
two, after which they may be budded or 
transferred to the nursery row to grow to 
orchard size. A growth of a foot or 18 
inches the first season is all that can usu¬ 
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