737 
1911. 
PIGWEED GREENS. 
I have just lately been enjoying 
“greens” new to me, and if I have 
lived most of 40 years in the country 
without discovering its most excellent 
qualities, likely there are others, so I 
hasten to pass it on to any unenlightened 
ones there may be. It is nothing more 
or less than the tender tops and leaves 
of pigweed! Now don’t sniff, but.just 
try it, and if you don’t think a dish of 
it buttered and seasoned is the equal 
of any spinach, then I will acknowledge 
I have a perverted taste. In my vicinity 
it is one of the commonest of weeds. 
Brockton, Mass. A - B - 
R. N.-Y. — The Goosefoot family 
(Chenopodiaceae) to which pigweed or 
lamb’s quarters belongs, contains a num¬ 
ber of useful pot herbs, and the plant 
referred to (Chenopodium album) has 
been eaten freely as greens, both here 
and in Europe. Another old-fashioned 
Chenopodium cultivated for its succu¬ 
lent shoots is C. Bonus-Henricus, or 
Good King Henry, known in American 
gardens as mercury or markery. Spin¬ 
ach, beet and orach are allied plants. 
5THE5 RURAl, MBW-YORKB® 
Carp Culture in Maryland. 
J. D. 8., St. Marys Co., Md.—l saw in The 
R. N.-Y., on page 627, an article on carp 
culture in Germany. I have a piece of 
marsh land which contains about five acres 
and I am putting a dam across it to make 
a fish pond. The bottom is very muddy 
with grass growing in it. I thought it 
would be a suitable place for carp. I am 
desirous of getting some information on the 
subject. 
Ans.— The National Bureau of Fish¬ 
eries at Washington gave up the distri¬ 
bution of carp many years ago. It was 
found that the carp became a nuisance 
when put with other fish, as they destroy 
species that are more valuable. There 
can be no reasonable objection to the 
cultivation of the carp if restricted to 
waters specially adapted to them and 
which are unsuited to oth?r more de¬ 
sirable fishes. Under such conditions 
they might be profitably and successfully 
reared on farms as a source of food 
supply, but care should be taken to pre¬ 
vent their introduction into open waters. 
The place described in the question 
would be a good place for carp culture, 
but the business would not be as profit¬ 
able as it is in Germany. The price is 
much lower here, and the demand is 
comparatively small. Carp ranks as a 
cheap fish. The Department of Com¬ 
merce and Labor at Washington issued 
a consular report describing fish culture 
in Germany. 
Another Unfruitful Plum Tree. 
O. W. H., Mamaroneck, N. Y .—Referring 
to the article on page 646, ‘‘Unfruitful 
Plum Trees,” I have a Green Gage plum 
tree about 15 years old—it is in my chicken 
yard and conditions, I think, are most 
favorable. It is as handsome a specimen of 
a vigorous, thrifty tree, as can be imagined, 
bark carefully scraped and sprayed every 
year. It never bad an insect upon it of 
any description, till this season, when a 
few ‘‘measuring worms” have appeared, 
but, these were very quickly disposed of 
before having time to do any damage. It 
has never yet failed to blossom out most 
luxuriantly, a sight to behold, but no fruit, 
to speak of. It is certainly not the curculio 
in this case. What is it? Cannot some 
of your many readers help us out? l\hat 
few plums we do get—not over a dozen or 
so—are very delicious; nothing could be 
finer. 
Ans.— This plum tree ought certainly 
to bear and the only possible cause that 
I can see for its not bearing is that the 
flowers may not be pollinated. As I 
have seen the Green Gage plum trees 
they were fruitful enough, but I do not 
remember having observed any that 
were entirely separated from other va¬ 
rieties. Sometimes rains interfere with 
pollination, when they occur just as the 
organs are in the critical stage, but 
during about 10 years of the bearing 
life of a tree there has surely been 
years when this did not happen.^ It 
may be that this tree is not Green Gage, 
but of some variety that is habitually 
unfruitful. h. e. van deman. 
Piping From Spring. 
J. B. P., Spook Hollow, Pa .— I have a 
never-failing spring of water 1,000 feet 
from buildings. There is a deep ravine 
between spring and buildings. Spring is 
30 feet above level of kitchen floor. I 
shall have running water in kitchen, barn, 
chicken houses, pigpens and spring house. 
What size pipe should I use to bring this 
water? Also what kind of pipe do you ad¬ 
vise me to use? Would chestnut logs 
make a good line? Some say they keep 
the water cooler than iron pipe. Will the 
water taste, in chestnut, also how are the 
logs joined together? How deep should 
the line be laid to keep the water cool? 
Ans.— One-inch galvanized iron pipe 
would probably be cheaper and more 
satisfactory than the chestnut logs, espe- 
cialy if the ravine is deep, so that the 
pipe would be under considerable pres¬ 
sure there, and because it is practically 
impossible to - lay a pipe 1,000 feet in 
length sufficiently deep to keep the water 
cool in Summer. The essential thing 
is to lay the pipe below frost. The 
chestnut logs telescope together and 
would not be likely to effect the water 
so as to give it a taste. 
Trouble with Peach Trees. 
What is the matter with my peach trees? 
They commence to die from where they were 
budded about three inches down around the 
whole tree; at some places it seems there 
are holes about the size of a needle, but yet 
I cannot find any worms. The trees are 
two years planted, and grew very nicely. I 
only noticed the trouble this Spring. The 
leaves seem to turn yellow. a. h. s. 
Oley, Pa. 
It is difficult to diagnose accurately such 
a case as this without personal examination 
of the orchard. This is because the factors 
really responsible for the trouble may read¬ 
ily be overlooked by the orchardist. The 
sample of bark sent shows no important in¬ 
sect or disease upon it. If we were to ven¬ 
ture an opinion regarding the trouble it 
would be that we have here a case of Win¬ 
ter injury. This occurs frequently ‘on 
thrifty, late-growing trees, especially if the 
soil is rather retentive of moisture. The 
injury around the crown of the tree is fre¬ 
quently due to the formation of soil cups 
about the tree-base as a result of swaying 
by the wind. These cups collect and hold 
water about the crown of the tree, which 
later freezes and apparently increases sus 
ceptibility to Winter injury. The yellowing 
of the leaves is a common accompaniment of 
root injury due to winter-killing or other 
causes, and the holes mentioned are doubt¬ 
less those of the so-called shot-hole borer, 
which commonly attacks trees or portions of 
trees that are reduced in vitality. If the 
trouble is correctly diagnosed, the current 
methods of avoiding Winter injury will ap 
ply in this case, namely, the adoption of 
cultural methods tending to secure early 
ripening and perhaps less succulent growth, 
and the elimination of soil cups about the 
bases of the trees on the approach of 
Winter. J- p. stewabt 
Pennsylvania Experiment Station. 
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Rye as a Cover Crop.— A recent article 
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