Ihe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1457 
Controlling Peach Borers 
I want to try a scheme to keep borers 
out of a peach tree. Will you tell me 
about what month they start inV I mean 
the first operation, laying eggs. I suppose. 
Do they get much below the surface? 
Hillsdale, N. J. w. s. M. 
In your location the eggs arc laid by 
a moth in June—or about that time. 
These eggs are laid in rough places or 
cracks in the lower trunk of the tree. 
The borers hatch and begin working down 
through the sapwood to the root. They 
work until late in Fall or e^rly Winter— 
sometimes four inches or more below the 
surface. We dig them out iu October. 
White Grubs in Meadow 
The ground around here is full of white 
grubs. The skunks are turfing the sod 
land, and the young pigs have found 
them, too, and are having a feast. The 
roots of the grass seems to be entirely 
eaten off in places, and you can pick it 
up with your tool and see the grubs. 
Will this kill the grass for next year? 
They are eating the potatoes badly in 
some fields. Most potatoes are rotting 
around here, owing to the heavy rains 
we have had for the past few weeks. One 
man reports losing 400 bu.: another 
neighbor with a small garden dug 10 bu. 
and only got one-half bushel of good ones. 
Medway, Mass. r. t. c. 
We fear that the grubs will ruin that 
meadow. What they leave of the grass 
will probably be killed by the skunks and 
pigs in rooting for the grubs. These 
grub hunters are the best we know of. 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
Our produce exchange is selling Long 
Island spinach seed for 50c per lb., while 
a seedsman charged me $1.30 per lb. My 
seed has germinated badly, while a friend 
who bought 50 lbs. has a splendid stand. 
The scarcity of Holland spinach seed a 
year or two ago sent the price up. and 
though the home production has greatly 
increased, and the Long Island growers 
are offering the seed at retail for 50c. the 
seedsmen have failed to come down. A 
few years ago I could get the best spin¬ 
ach seed for 20c per lb., but now it is 
assumed in every line of trade that peo¬ 
ple will pay any old price demanded for 
anything. Lettuce plants for the Fall 
crop are now set. and we hope to head 
the plants before frost gets here, or at 
least before it does damage to .such hardy 
stuff. We seldom have killing frost till 
last of October. 
The gorgeous show that the Cannas 
and Dahlias are making makes one hate 
to think about frost coming. A friend in 
North Carolina sent me some Lima beans 
which be claimed to be a cross of the large 
white Lima and our small Lima or butter 
bean. The only circumstances that favor 
the cross are the rather shorter pods and 
the greater productiveness. The beans 
are splendid, large white Limas, but are 
making double the crop that I have ever 
had the large Lima to make here. In 
fact, it has been so uniformly unproduc¬ 
tive tlmt l had ceased to plant it. I now 
have a 50-ft. row on the wire fence of 
each, and the 100 ft. promise to load us 
with ripe beans for the Winter, as well 
as an oversupply of green beaus. It may 
be the acclimation of the beans that has 
made the North Carolina beans produc¬ 
tive. The large Lima beans are seldom 
productive south of the northern counties 
of Maryland. The influence of a slight 
change of climate on plants is often puz¬ 
zling. 
Owing to favorable weather conditions 
the late crop of tomatoes is yielding more 
than expected, and the great two-tffory 
loads of baskets filled with tomatoes does 
not just now look like a shortage. But 
they are bringing unheard-of prices, both 
at the canneries and iu the retail gro¬ 
ceries. 
The curbed and guttered streets end in 
a corner at my place, and my front is on 
a wholly unfinished street, actually sim¬ 
ply an open space, indicating where the 
street is to be. I have taken advantage 
of this to increase the beauty of my front. 
There is a good concrete sidewalk on both 
streets, which I laid and paid for entire¬ 
ly. In front of the sidewalk anil the 
trees I fixed the soil to the middle of the 
street and sowed Blue grass, and have 
for a long time run my lawn mower to 
the middle of the street. The travel is not 
heavy out here, one block from the city 
limits, and it is curious to note how all 
vehicles respect my grass and follow a 
single track on the other side of the 
street, and as my rear entrance is on the 
side street, I maintain a lawn in the 
street 20 ft. wide and 311 ft. long; in fact, 
about as much lawn as I have on my 
grounds. Hence I do not care how long 
the city is in “improving" the street. 
The yellow potato onion sets are in the 
ground. These are very hardy and are 
always planted in the Fall, as they are 
hard to keep iu Winter. They make the 
earliest ripe onions iu June. The late 
crop of Stowell's Evergreen corn is now 
ready for the table, and is more clear of 
worms that earlier crops. Our market 
truck growers have had an unusually fa¬ 
vorable season, and high prices for all 
crops, though the muskmelons dropped 
very low late iu the season. 
w. F. MASSEY. 
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