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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 30, 1921 
De LUE’S JUDITH 
“New Wonder Strawberry” 
Awarded silver medal and three first prizes by Mass. Horticultural 
Society. Brings $1.00 per quart wholesale in Boston market. 
Long season—very productive—superb flavor. 
Mr. Chas. Wellington Slone, principal of l he Stone School 
on Beacon St., Boston, who is an expert on Horticultural 
matters, says : 
"l set out the 'Judith' plants which I bought o( you in 
the Spring, at Templeton, Mass., and the results are al¬ 
most beyond belief. I think you have accomplished the 
most phenomenal creation that has been made in American 
horticulture. I am fully convinced that in the Judith 
miracle you have created the strawberry of all time. I do 
not believe the strawberry plant capable of anything be¬ 
yond it. My guess is that a hundred years from now the 
‘Judith’ blood will be the basis of the strawberry world, 
as the Justin Morgan is of the hone world.” 
Prices: 1 doz., $2.50; 50 plants, $9; 100 plants, $15 
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The De Lue Experimental 
Dept. G, NEEDHAM, MASS. 
Farm 
4 #1 the Old Favorites 
and Many New Ones 
HPHE Baldwin ahd other old-time 
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these time-tried varieties. Also of the 
most promising 
new varieties— 
Delicious, Opales¬ 
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Our one and two- 
year apple trees were 
never finer than 
now. They are 
clean, sturdy and 
heavy-rooted. 
We also offer true- 
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Pear, Plum and 
Cherry trees — a 11 
adapted toNorthern 
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Our ornamental 
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Shade Trees, Shrubs, and Hedge Plants. These 
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STANDARD CHEMICAL WORKS, Inc., Reading, Pa. 
A Chemical for Peach Borers 
\Vc have made several references to 
paradichlorobenzene, the new chemical for 
destroying peach borers. We have waited 
until thorough experiments were made 
before talking about it. The New Jersey 
Experiment Station, after considerable 
work, concludes that this chemical really 
is useful. The pictures given at Fig. 248 
show how the chemical is used. 
The material is a white crystalline 
solid. It is insoluble in water and vapor¬ 
izes slowly at ordinary temperature. The 
gas which is given off from this chemical 
is heavier than air, with an odor which 
somewhat resembles naphthalene. It is 
non-poisonous to man, yet it is quite 
poisonous to insects when they can be 
thoroughly exposed to it 
In using it the ground around the tree 
is first cleared of grass and weeds and 
made level and smooth, as shown at. the 
left of the picture. It is not desirable 
to stir the ground aud open it too much. 
Where there is considerable gum around 
the trunk of the tree, it is better to scrape 
this gum off. The ground is made level 
and left so at about the point where the 
gum appears. The gas is heavier than 
air, and sinks down into the ground. 
Thus the chemical should not be put down 
too low, for it may miss some of the 
borers. After the ground has been leveled 
as described, the paradichlorobenzene is 
distributed in a little ring or band, about 
an inch wide, around the base of the tree. 
One ounce or a little less of the material 
is used at each application. This band 
pruned them according to instruction, and 
sprayed them twice during Summer with 
Bordeaux mixture. The Kieffer did very 
well, had a beautiful little top, but the 
Clapp had all black spots on the leaves and 
did not do very well during last Summer. 
Will you tell me how to take care of 
them in pruning and spraying, how often, 
when and with what mixture? Last Fall 
I had the ground plowed up, harrowed 
and sowed rye, which I intend to turn 
under when about one foot high, as the 
ground is quite poor (sandy loam). It 
was used for cornfield many years before 
I bought it. I limed the soil last Fall 
before I had it plowed. Would just culti¬ 
vating do, or can I plant between trees? 
West Norwood, N. J. U. G. 
There are three diseases which affect 
pears when black spots appear on the 
leaves, as U. G. describes. The^ Keiffer 
pear is more resistant than the Clapp to 
all of these diseases. The pear scab is 
the worst of the three, attacking leaves, 
twigs and fruit. Leaf spot and leaf 
blight are minor troubles, and are con¬ 
trolled by the sprays used to control the 
scab. As a. first spray, lime-sulphur di¬ 
luted one gallon to eight of water should 
he applied as the blossom buds separate 
in the cluster. Just after the petals fall 
a solution of lime-sulphur diluted one to 
40 should be applied, arsenate of lead 
added for the codling moth and Black 
Leaf 40 if psylla nymphs are present. 
Two weeks later a spray with lime-sul¬ 
phur, Summer strength, should be given. 
A later spray may be given if the weather 
conditions are such that it is necessary. 
In pruning there are several general 
principles that should be followed. In 
the first place do not attempt to cut a 
limb without an object in view. All dead 
wood and useless branches should be cut 
out of the tree first. When the growth 
of one branch will injure another by 
crowding, sacrifice the weaker branch. 
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Method, of Applying Chemical Treatment for Peach Borer. Fig. 248 
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of chemical should be about two inches 
out from the hark of the tree, and none 
of the chemical should be put up close to 
the hark. The central picture shows how 
it is to be done. After the chemical is 
put into this point, the earth is mounded 
up over it around the base of the tree, as 
shown at the right of the picture. When 
this is done, and the conditions are right, 
the chemical will give off gas which will 
work through the soil around the base of 
the tree and destroy the borers. 
That is the theory upon which this 
method is based, and it has given good 
results in practice. In New Jersey the 
best time to use the chemical is said to be 
the last week in August or some time 
before September 10. Earlier application 
will kill the worms already in the tree, 
but will not prevent new ones from get¬ 
ting in. In order to make sure, two ap¬ 
plications might be used, one in June and 
one late in August. This will be prac¬ 
tically sure to kill all the worms. Ap¬ 
plication in the Spring is not desirable. 
The temperature of the soil is not high 
enough to produce immediate action, and 
it is possible that there might be injury 
to the tree. Thus single application late 
in August or early September will give 
good results, and that is also a good time 
for digging the borers out by hand. It 
is said that the chemical will kill the 
borers when the soil has a temperature 
of 60 degrees or higher. At lower tem¬ 
peratures the chemical works slowly. It 
is most effective in dry, warm soil. In 
a wet soil the gas cannot penetrate freely, 
and thus is uot so effective. While this 
uew method has uot been fully tried out, 
the New Jersey Experiment people seem 
to think that it is, next to band work, the 
most effective treatment thus far thought 
out. 
Shoots which grow on the inside surfaces 
of the main branches and also on the 
trunk of the tree should be removed. 
Early cabbage or beans could well be 
planted between the rows of trees as sug¬ 
gested. Do not cultivate the ground too 
late (after July 15), as the wood will 
not ripen properly. Stopping cultivation 
causes the moisture to leave the ground 
and ripens the wood properly. T. H. T. 
Planting Onion Sets 
Fig. 246, page 643, shows the machine 
for planting onion sets which I mentioned 
some weeks ago, and I am glad to give a 
picture of the machine. Although I my¬ 
self have not seen it work, reports seem 
to be quite favorable, and such a machine 
should prove a great help to growers, 
especially those in the Connecticut Val¬ 
ley. The season has made it possible to 
plant onion sets very early, and some 
growers raising bunch onions find it a 
good plan to plant them zigzag, which 
makes it possible to get a dozen or more 
sets to each foot of row. Of course, this 
plan cannot be followed with a machine. 
Considerable has been heard of late about 
the so-called Japanese onion sets, which, 
as a matter of fact, never saw Japan. I 
do not know where they got this name, 
although it is claimed, I believe, that the 
variety originally came from Japan; but 
the fact is that they are grown in Con¬ 
necticut, where much attention has been 
given to breeding them for several years. 
It is claimed that they are early ripening, 
and that the seed stalk is being done away 
with. A number of Connecticut growers 
are using these sets exclusively, finding 
that they get the highest prices on ac¬ 
count of the tendency of the onions to 
ripen up quickly. is. I. FARRINGTON. 
Treatment of Pear Trees 
“For sale,” read the advertisement in 
the local paper, “a cow that gives 10 
4 vear ago I planted 50 pear trees quarts of milk a day besides two grind- 
(standard) Clapp and Kieffer. They stones, a lot of farm tools and a set of 
were at that time two years old. I harness. —loronto bun. 
