1008. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
473 
A CORNER OF AN OLD-FASHIONED 
GARDEN. 
Hollyhocks always grew in grand¬ 
mother’s garden, single and double, a 
dozen colors. They are one of the 
easiest to grow of all the old-time flow¬ 
ers. From seed planted in the Spring or 
Summer and the small plants trans¬ 
planted to where they are to stay, one 
will get a long season of bloom the next 
year. The roots live in the open through 
the Winter, protected maybe with a little 
straw or old leaves, and often blossom 
two or three seasons. It is better to 
have some new plants every year to be 
sure of them. The garden level in the 
picture, Fig. 212, is some three feet be¬ 
low the foreground. The spikes of flow¬ 
ers were six and eight feet tall, and 
were in blossom from first to last for 
six weeks. F. 
Massachusetts. 
THE “MIRACLE” WHEAT. 
We have received several requests for 
particulars about this variety of wheat. 
Some remarkable statements have been 
made about it both as to origin and 
yield. We wrote Dr. M. A. Carleton, 
the cerealist of the United States De¬ 
partment of Agriculture, and received 
this reply: 
“This wheat, produced by Mr. K. B. 
Stoner, of Fincastle, Va„ is nothing 
more -than a good sample of thorough 
selection from a single mother plant. 
The original plant, of course, was a 
good one, and no one knows how it 
originated. It was found in his yard, 
and, while this plant may have been an 
unusual individual, the rest of the story 
could be repeated by any good farmer 
by thoroughly selecting his wheat and 
breeding it as he would breed animals. 
The accounts have been much exag¬ 
gerated in the different newspapers, al¬ 
though it is an unusually good strain of 
wheat without a doubt.” 
m. a. carleton. 
WORK OF THE PLUM CURCULIO. 
11. IF. II., Olneyville. R. I .—We have 
learned fairly well how to handle the San 
.Tos6 scale, the Codling moth and the scab, 
but I am in sore need of some one who can 
tell me how to prevent the ravages of the 
Plum curculio. This insect, like other crea¬ 
tures with fewer legs, has adapted itself to 
new conditions, and acquired depraved 
tastes; at least they are depraved from the 
view-point of the fruit grower, for the little 
Turk now feeds as greedily upon the apple 
as it does upon tiie plum, and does even 
more damage. The Illinois Station, in a 
recent bulletin, gives the result of a number 
of experiments, which point as the chief 
reliance in fighting the pest, upon contin¬ 
uous cultivation during the growing season, 
and the destruction of the fallen and in¬ 
fested fruit. Their results were quite satis¬ 
factory, hut they do not explain my last 
year's experience. There are no plum trees 
of any sort within a mile or more of the 
plum orchard that was to have borne its 
first crop, nor are there any hearing apple 
trees within a half mile of either the plums 
or a young orchard of Yellow Transparents 
and Oldenburgs that also wished to present 
us with an offering; but on the north, ad¬ 
joining the plum orchard, and distant half 
a mile or so from the apple orchard, is a 
large wood, principally oak, with some 
W bite pine and birch. The invasion oc¬ 
curred suddenly, when the apples were 
about the size of small acorns and the 
plums were like peas. The curculio ap¬ 
peared at the same lime over the whole 
orchard, some 300 trees, and every apple 
and plum seemed to have from one to 10 
eureulios digging into it. You can guess the 
results. One apple was the total crop. 
Where did they come from? How am I go¬ 
ing to prevent them from doing it over 
again ? 
Ans.—T he correspondent states that 
on the north adjoining the plum or¬ 
chard, but distant half a mile or so 
from the apple orchard, is a large piece 
of woods. If this woods adjoins the 
plum orchard it would be an ideal place 
in which the eureulios could hibernate. 
If the surrounding land were also 
grown up to weeds or other coarse, 
heavy vegetation and were not culti¬ 
vated, the eureulios would find such 
conditions favorable for hibernation. If 
the orchard itself were uncultivated or 
allowed to grow up to grass and weeds 
during the latter part of the season, the 
eureulios could easily hibernate in the 
orchard successfully. Now in regard 
to the methods for controlling this pest. 
The careful experiments made by the 
Illinois Station show that for apples 
thorough cultivation in July and Aug¬ 
ust is the most successful remedial 
treatment, and several applications of a 
poison spray also help very much. On 
plums I have been carrying on co¬ 
operative experiments with fruit-grow¬ 
ers for several seasons, and the general 
results have been much in favor of two 
or three applications of a poison spray, 
preferably the arsenate of lead, using 
it at the rate of three or four pounds 
in 50 gallons of water. Make the first 
application just after the blossoms drop 
and repeat this in a week, following it 
with another a week later, thus keep¬ 
ing the trees thoroughly coated during 
the feeding and egg-laying period of the 
eureulios. The jarring method is, of 
course, practicable and a sure remedy. 
Trees of considerable size can be jarred 
during the season for from 15 to 25 
cents per tree. Jarring should begin 
about the blossoming time, and continue 
on a few trees daily until the beetles 
are found in sufficient numbers to war¬ 
rant jarring all the trees daily. I think 
the combination of thorough cultivation 
and thorough spraying with the arsen¬ 
ate of lead will largely control this pest 
both on the plums and young apple 
trees. m. v. slingerland. 
Cow Peas for Maryland. 
A. E. C., Cockcy8ville, Md .—I have a 
field of six acres, quite a steep hill, lying 
to north and west. It. was used as a pas¬ 
ture four years ago, since then it has lain 
idle. The ground is sandy loam with con¬ 
siderable small loose stone. I wish to put 
the field in cultivation, but have no man¬ 
ure. What do you think of cow peas and 
how put them in and treat them to best 
advaniage to land? 
Ans. —Certainly you can grow cow 
peas successfully, for I have done it al¬ 
most in sight of you many years ago. 
You should give the land an application 
of a mixture of 10 per cent phosphoric 
acid and five per cent potash at rate of 
300 pounds per acre, well harrowed in, 
before sowing the peas. You can get 
this already prepared from the fertilizer 
dealers in Baltimore. The land should 
be plowed well and the fertilizer ap¬ 
plied and then harrowed in. The seed 
should be sown early in June at rate 
of one bushel per acre broadcast or 
drilled in with a wheat drill. If sown 
by hand they can be well covered with 
an Acme harrow. Then, if the sole ob¬ 
ject is the improvement of the soil, let 
them stand till the seed ripens and the 
leaves begin to fall, and then sow Crim¬ 
son clover seed all among them. Or you 
can mow the vines for hay when the 
pods turn yellow, and then disk the 
stubble and sow the clover. This clover 
can be turned in in the Spring for corn 
and should make you a good crop even 
if you have no manure. Cut at the 
proper stage, the pea vines will make the 
finest of cow hay. w. F. massey. 
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