1911. 
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Pears for Maine. 
A. R. B., Dexter, Me .—I wrote you sev¬ 
eral weeks ago about my plum orchard; 
how I have to cut it down on account of 
the black knot. I have almost decided to 
reset it to pears, and I co,me to you to And 
out what kind to set. I think I want a 
Winter pear, and have been thinking of the 
Anjou. Are there any that you would 
advise? The ground is occupied now with 
currants and gooseberries. I want a strong, 
free grower; would give high culture. 
Would you advise setting dwarf trees that 
would become standard in time? Or is 
there any other kind of fruit I could raise? 
I have one and one-half acre of land, in¬ 
cluding my house lot. Pears seem to grow 
well here. 
Ans. —For a small place such as is 
described, where not much more than 
an acre can be devoted to fruits, dwarf 
pear trees would be very suitable. But I 
would not advise to plant them only, for 
other trees would probably be as good 
or better some years. There is no need 
to abandon growing plums, for the 
black knot can be easily kept off the 
trees by a little care and prompt action 
in cutting off all signs of it as soon as 
seen. Dwarf pear trees would take very 
little space, and should be set 15 feet 
.apart in the row, but the rows could be 
20 to 30 feet apart, and thus give room 
for growing currants and other small 
fruits, which will pay equally well. The 
idea of planting the dwarf pear trees 
several inches deeper than they were in 
the nursery, so there will be pear roots 
sent down from above the quince stock, 
is a very good plan, for the trees will 
bear early, as dwarfs do, and then be¬ 
come more vigorous as the pear roots 
take hold in the soil. Anjou is a good 
variety and so is Lawrence if a later 
kind is desired. H. e. van deman. 
Fighting White Grubs. 
Is there any remedy for the grubworm 
pest? It just beats all I ever saw In my 
life. They get in my celery trenches, work 
right along in the row, cutting loose the 
roots and eating the leaf stem from plants, 
and loosening up the soli so that it has no 
chance to make hardly any perceptible 
growth at all. I have been thinking of 
boiling some tobacco till the liquid gets 
very strong, and also cayenne pepper, and 
sprinkling with it, but as the worms work 
in the soil from about four to six Inches 
deep, I have wondered whether they could 
be conquered this way or not. I Tare 
thought of Bordeaux mixture, but a* the 
vegetation they work on are much of the 
same nature as the insect that subsists od 
it, it does seem to me that what would 
destroy the insect would be equally de¬ 
structive to the plant on which they Sub¬ 
sist. *. r. c. 
Alta Vista, Va. 
We can give you little encouragement. 
Fighting white grubs when they are well 
developed In the soil is an endless job. 
Thorough culture during late Summer will 
destroy many eggs and young grubs, but 
the older ones are usually too deep in 
the ground to be reached by poisons or 
chemicals. The only hope lies in cleaning 
out the grubs before crops are planted. 
Deep Fall plowing will help—with a flock 
of poultry to follow the plow. One of the 
surest ways to clean out the grubs is to 
turn a drove of lively young hogs into the j 
field and make them root. They will tear 
up the soil two feet or more deep and get | 
every grub within reach. 
Municipal Farms at San Diego, Cal. 
San Diego, Cal., recently established a 
municipal flower farm for the Panama- 
California International Exposition, and has 
since begun the development of a city for¬ 
age farm. The flower farm is being oper¬ 
ated by the city park commission to propa¬ 
gate and grow the flowers, vinos, ferns and 
trees required for the exposition to be held 
in this city in 1915. The city forester 
now has begun work of putting in about 
350 acres of hay and grain with which to 
feed the 500 odd horses and 100 cattle 
owned by the city in its different depart¬ 
ments. Farmers in this country cut four 
and six crops of Alfalfa, some as high as 
eight, a year. In spite of this there is ai 
dearth of hay, both Alfalfa and grain, 
from time to time, and the city forester has 
figured out that he can plant about 350 
acres of the city “pueblo” lands to hay 
and grain and save the city a whole lot 
on its feed bills. 
The flower farm has been such a suc¬ 
cess that he has been told to go ahead and 
raise all the hay he wants for the city 
stock. If he raises too much he will be 
nllowed to sell the surplus. As the “pueblo” 
lands will raise hay even in a dry year 
and grain in a wet year, the forester is 
sure of a hay crop every year without ir¬ 
rigation. The expense will be in putting 
in the seed and the regular dry farming 
methods will be used. He promises to re¬ 
lieve the city of the annual squabbles over 
feed contracts, and to save the city a lot 
of money by so doing. If he succeeds the 
exposition division of works will take its 
fet'd from him, thus giving him a revenue 
from the first crop. 
Vegetable and Garden Notes. 
Grass Under Trees.— Would say to FI. 
L. M., page 987. garden tilth for the pro¬ 
posed lawn will make grass grow in spite 
of the trees ; do the work when convenient. 
Commercial fertilizer is unnecessary if 
stable manure is to be had; fine manure 
is best but the coarse strawy grade is 
good. Put a large load on a space 30 
feet square, or all that can be worked 
into the ground by tramping into furrows ; 
don't leave manure on top of poor ground ; 
don’t fear weeds: a lawn is not an onion 
patch and desirable grasses will win out 
when a lawn mower is used on rich ground. 
Repeated working may be required to mix 
the soil with the manure, and if one ap¬ 
plication does not do the work put on 
another. I could give personal experience 
and pointed examples, but that would re¬ 
quire too much space, at any rate the 
plan outlined can be tried on a plot as 
large as a table and results will be seen. 
Ohio. a. G. M. 
Vine Plant Crosses. —Who says differ¬ 
ent genera of cucurbits won’t cross? Two 
or three years ago I had some white bush 
squashes in my garden, and 50 feet distant 
I had two or three plants of nest-egg 
gourds. I saved some of the squash seeds 
and planted them this year. I now have 
a crop of nice little nest-egg gourds on 
running vines. A few vines have bottle¬ 
shaped fruits, and one vine has beautiful 
white oblong fruits, six to eight inches 
long, and three inches thick. I got no 
squashes like those I saved seed from. 
I had some of the young gourds cooked and 
could not see but that they were about 
as good as squashes. One of the larger 
ones above referred to was very tender and 
good, fried. Pumpkins and squashes are 
described in botanies as distinct species. 
They readily cross. I can see only varietal 
differences between them. Some of my 
cross-bred vines have mottled leaves like 
pumpkin leaves. The readiness with which 
my gourds and squashes crossed leads me 
to believe that they are of one genus, or 
that the white bush squash is a hybrid. 
Kentucky. f. e. aspinwall. 
A Southern Vegetable Farm. —We grew 
hothouse tomatoes last Winter, and found 
them profitable. We built our greenhouse 
for other purposes, i. e., for growing early 
vegetables for our own use as well as for 
local and other trade. We are now build¬ 
ing another large greenhouse for tomatoes. 
We grow the following varieties in the 
greenhouse. Comet, Winter Beauty, Button’s 
Al, Sutton’s Best of All, and Sutton’s 
Abundance. We purchase our seed from 
England, paying a high price for it. We 
are working to the end of selecting our 
own seed for this climate. We have a 
farm of 300 acres, 200 under cultivation, 
in spinach, kale, lettuce, cabbage, sweet 
and Irish potatoes, etc. We intend to 
reach the consumer direct with products 
from this farm, as soon as the farm gets 
into a high state of cultivation and system. 
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