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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 
l!)lo. 
Orchard and Small Fruits 
Planting Small Fruit Trees. 
I find that some nurserymen offer small 
fruit trees at greatly reduced prices, still 
claimed to be first class, but young. 
Would it be practical to buy these trees 
and set in rows so as to have them to set 
when convenient next year? I wish to set a 
large number of trees, and the land is not 
all fitted so as to set them this year. I had 
thought I would save time to buy these 
trees now and set all that I conveniently 
could, and set the remainder in the garden 
so that they would be growing while the 
land was being prepared. They would be 
much handier to set a few at a time from 
the garden than if they all came at once. 
Onondaga Co., N. Y. G. m. i,. 
Yes, this plan is quite practical. We 
have tried it successfully. The young, 
yearling trees suit us best if they are 
naturally well grown, but some growers 
prefer two or even three year olds. You 
can plant the little trees in good soil 
quite close together, give them good cul¬ 
ture and shape them properly. Then 
when you are ready you can dig and plant 
them at once—making a surer thing of it. 
Peach Trees Exuding Gum. 
I have several peach trees from which 
the sap or gum exudes from the ground 
up to the branches, and on some of the 
largest branches. It looks as though it 
might be caused by the sting or bite of 
some insect. There are 20 or 30 of these 
little gum spots to the tree. I can find 
nothing that looks like the borer that 
works beneath the surface of the ground 
on the trees. Will you give me a remedy? 
Would a lime-sulphur wash, then wrap 
the trunk of trees in paper, be all right? 
IIow about whitewashing the trunks 
with lime? w. E. T, 
Biloxi, Miss. 
The gum coming out on peach trees is 
doubtless due either to the peach tree 
borer, the lesser peach tree borer, shot- 
hole borer, or peach bark-beetle. The 
peach-tree borer winters in the burrow 
just under the bark, or on the bark under 
a thin covering of silk. They infest the 
base of the tree just below the ground. 
Iloe the dirt away from the base of the 
tree and dig out: the borers with a knife 
and a piece of baling wire. Paint the 
wounds and base of the tree with strong 
lime-sulphur to a height of eight or 10 
inches above the level of the ground and 
hill the earth up a little around the base 
of the tree. The lime-sulphur wash 
should be applied June 1 and August 1. 
A piece of building paper two feet square, 
cut to fit closely around the trunk and 
extend over the mound at the base of the 
tree, with tanglefoot painted on to close 
entirely the spaces between the paper and 
the bark will keep most of the young 
borers which hatch on the trunk from 
crawling down and getting into the base 
of the tree. The lesser peach tree borer 
attacks the trunk and larger branches. 
Often the empty pupa skins are found 
protruding from the bark. Scrape off the 
gum and with a sharp-pointed knife lo¬ 
cate and dig out the borer, which in 
some cases may be found inside a silken 
cocoon. Paint with strong lime-sulphur 
whitewash two or three times each Sum¬ 
mer. The shot-hole borer and peach 
bark-beetle only attack trees that lack 
vigor. An infested tree is full of little 
round holes as though shot with buckshot. 
Prune, cultivate and fertilize the trees 
to promote vigorous growth. Paint with 
lime sulphur in March, June and Septem¬ 
ber. E. w. M. 
Do Bees Carry Blight ? 
I attended a farmers’ institute a few 
weeks ago. A specialist on fruit-growing 
astonished me by the remark that the 
blight is caused by bees; illustrating by 
comparing the bees with the fly and mos¬ 
quito, saying the bees carry the blight 
fungus in the same manner as flies do 
typhoid fever, etc. It is a new one to 
me. Is it possible? I am a friend of 
the honey-bee. His “remedy” is to en¬ 
close hives in wire cloth cages during blos¬ 
soming time, and spray with strong 
poisons, then to kill all wild bees and 
other insects. He also made the state¬ 
ment that you don’t need bees to fertil¬ 
ize the blossoms. I thought the contrary 
had been pretty thoroughly proven. 
Montana. H. t. a. 
We understand it is now claimed that 
bees do carry the germs of blight from 
one tree or flower to another. This is 
a mechanical transfer on the feet or 
hairs of the insect after the manner of 
the house-fly’s work. The transfer of 
malar: - V the mosquito is different. In 
that case the insect is supposed to extract 
the germ in the blood from some human. 
This germ goes through a process of de¬ 
velopment in the insect and is then trans¬ 
ferred to another human. There is an 
argument about the effect of bees in ap¬ 
ple orchards, but the great weight of 
testimony seems to be that they do great¬ 
ly aid in fertilizing the flowers. 
Grafting Kieffer; Peach Varieties. 
I have 40 thrifty Kieffer pear trees 
that have borne four or five crops, and I 
am so disgusted with the Kieffer that if 
there is any chance at all of success I 
would like to convert these trees to some 
variety of good Winter pear. I believe 
that the Kieffer is not a congenial stock 
for grafting. What can I do in the mat¬ 
ter? I intend planting this Spring 35 or 
40 peaches for home use and near market. 
Will you recommend, say three kinds—• 
varly, midseason and late? I would like 
all to be free-stone and of good quality; 
have severe Winters and late Spring 
frosts. J. F. t. 
Patton. Pa. 
1. Many trials made with Kieffer, 
Garber and LeConte as stocks for Euro¬ 
pean pears have proven utter failures; 
therefore, if you wish to make any change 
of varieties in this orchard your only re¬ 
course is to dig out the Kieffers and re¬ 
plant with such sorts as will meet your 
requirements. 
2. The following varieties of peaches 
will, no doubt, succeed in your section, 
and in order to give some latitude for 
selection, I give the names of three va¬ 
rieties for each season. All are very 
hardy, and prolific bearers of large, beau¬ 
tifully colored, fine flavoi’ed fruit: Early, 
Eureka, Alton, Carman; midseason, 
Champion, Belle of Georgia, Elberta; 
late, Sal way, Krummel October, Wonder¬ 
ful. K. 
. Peach Seedlings. 
Can you explain to me why a peach 
stone will not produce a tree resembling 
the parent tree in quality of fruit when 
no wild trees are within a I’adius of a 
few miles? Do you think bees are re¬ 
sponsible, or do they go back to wild 
stock they were budded on? How are 
varieties obtained? Is it the same 
method as obtaining new varieties of 
vegetables? m. j. 
A peach stone will seldom produce the 
same kind of fruit as the parent tree, be¬ 
cause it has either been cross-fertilized 
with the pollen of some other variety, or 
the parent tree having originated from 
such a cross the seeds will produce trees 
with all the various characters of the 
parents for some generations back in 
various combinations. New varieties are 
selected from a large number of these 
hybrid seedlings, one of which may occa¬ 
sionally happen to be a good sort. When 
a desirable variety is found it is repro¬ 
duced and propagated by buds set on 
seedling stocks. The wild stock does not 
affect the tree or fruit unless it grows 
too slow or too fast to make a good union 
with the bud or graft. Even if bees or 
other carriers have not carried the pollen 
of one variety to another, the seed will 
usually produce trees with various differ¬ 
ences due to crossing in previous genera¬ 
tions. E. w. M. 
Currants Between Apples. 
Is there any objection to setting, say 
three currant bushes between the apple 
trees in the row, trees to be 25 feet 
apart? The trees are to be sprayed and 
currants also in dormant season for scale. 
J. D. F. 
I have known people to do as J. D. P. 
.suggests, and with apparent good results, 
I always felt, however, that there is more 
or less sacrifice and annoyance in so do¬ 
ing. Currants to do their best should 
have an abundance of manure, no doubt 
more than would be safe and profitable 
to use on the other trees. I should like 
a moister soil for currants than for the 
other trees mentioned. Currants in the 
rows prohibit cross cultivation of the 
trees. The currants are more or less in 
the way for spraying. Personally all 
things considered I should prefer to have 
the currants in a separate plantation, 
where I could give them the cultivation 
they should need and at the same time 
give the orchard trees what they most 
need. A; T. Stevens. 
"For the Land’s .Sake, use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
those who till it .”—A do. 
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