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Lime for Club-foot in Cabbage 
Is hydrated lime good to prevent club¬ 
foot in cabbage? r. g. r. 
Any form of lime scattered around the 
cabbage plants after setting will help to 
prevent this disease, but it is not a sure 
cure. The surest plan is to keep the dis¬ 
ease away from the little plants before 
setting them. This is done by growing 
the plants on sterilized or clean soil; 
that is, soil where no germs of the dis¬ 
ease are found. A common way is to 
burn a good-sized bonfire on some good 
piece of land and then sow the cabbage 
seed where the fire wae made. Plants 
grown on such soil are rarely diseased. 
Red Bug and Maggot 
Rhode Island Greenings were about all 
the apples we had last Fall. The trees 
'were sprayed twice after blossoming- 
just before and just after the petals fell. 
I used arsenate of lead and nicotine (sul¬ 
phate. The fruit was very defective— 
knotty, and full of little white streaks 
running through, as though made by 
some small worm or insect. M. L. B. 
Eagle Bridge, N. Y. 
Knotty fruits are, for the most part, 
caused 'by aphids or red bugs. Your 
sprayings with nicotine sulphate should 
have held these insects in check. Yet 
the red bug seems especially difficult to 
control, and therefore a little extra pains, 
with a spray of 2 y 2 gallons of lime-sul¬ 
phur, 2 Yu lbs. of arsenate of lead, and 
one pint of nicotine sulphate, all in 100 
gallons and applied when the last of the 
petals are falling, will help reduce the 
number of knotty fruits. 
Undoubtedly the fruits with the white 
streaks running through them were af¬ 
fected with apple maggot or railroad 
worm. A spray applied about July 1, 
composed of arsenate of lead, 2 y 2 lbs. to 
100 gallons of solution, will very largely 
control this trouble, and will be added in¬ 
surance against the leaf skeletonizer 
which caused so much damage last year. 
H. B. T. 
Honey from Scotch Heather 
Does the Scotch heather yield nectar 
in this country? How is the heather 
propagated? E. s. H. 
Ephrata, Pa. 
Scotch heather, Calluna vulgaris, is an 
excellent honey plant in this country as 
it is in Great Britain. Of course, how¬ 
ever, it is not grown in a large enough 
way to make it of any commercial value 
to beekeepers. It is characteristic of 
heather honey that it is highly flavored 
and exceedingly thick. Beekeepers have 
difficulty in separating it, even with mod¬ 
ern machines, and where heather honey is 
obtained it is usually sold only in the 
comb. As the blooms appear in late 
July or early August, the heather comes 
at a time when other flowers are not very 
plentiful. It will need to be planted on 
good ground that is well drained, but not 
very rich. It should have full exposure 
to the sun. 
Seeds can be sown in flats in the 
Spring, and if protected and shaded in a 
frame it germinates very quickly. If the 
plants are pricked out as soon as large 
enough to be handled, they will make 
good plants for planting out the follow¬ 
ing Spring. Planting the seeds out of 
doors where the plants are to go does not 
usually prove a success. There are sev¬ 
eral nurserymen who are now selling pot¬ 
ted plants of heather in several varieties. 
Probably the best way to get a start with 
heather is to buy such plants. E. I. F. 
Cleft-grafts Remaining Dormant 
A year ago I cleft-grafted two scions 
into an apple tree, the branch of which, 
at the point it was sawed off, being about 
1 14 in. in diameter. Neither of the scions 
grew, and no further attention was given 
to them, and they still remained undis¬ 
turbed. About a week ago I casually ob¬ 
served them and was struck by their ap¬ 
pearance, for they looked like freshly set 
grafts and today (a week later) they are 
coming strong, every bud on each of the 
scions developing rapidly. I am not very 
■well up on grafting, although I have done 
quite a little of it. I have never no¬ 
ticed anything like this before. I should 
like to know whether or not it is a com¬ 
mon occurrence. A. E. F. 
South Orange, N. J. 
\Ve have never had this interesting ex¬ 
perience, nor can we find anybody else 
who has. We should like to hear from 
any readers who may have heard of any¬ 
thing of the kind. H. b. t. 
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