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New England Notes 
Advertising the Apple Crop.— A new 
and rather ingenious method was adopted 
this season by Nashoba Fruit Producers’ 
Association to create interest in home¬ 
grown apples. This association, which 
is made up of fruit growers in Middlesex 
Co.. Maes., sent thousands of postcards, 
inviting people to visit the Nashoba fruit 
belt while the apple trees were in bloom, 
stating that an unusually beautiful dis¬ 
play was expected. The invitation was 
accepted by large numbers of persons, 
who drove out into the towns of Acton, 
Ashby, Bolton, Concord, Littleton. Marl¬ 
boro, and others in the same vicinity, 
where an almost unparalleled burst of 
bloom made a sight never to be forgotten. 
There is every indication that Massachus¬ 
etts will produce a tremendous crop of 
apples this year, but the peach crop will 
be a failure. There are whole orchards 
where hardly a blossom was to be seen 
this Spring. What is more, not a few r 
trees were killed outright. The situation 
is better in the southern part of New 
England, where less damage was done by 
the late Spring frosts. 
St. Regis Raspberry. — One wide¬ 
awake fruit grower in Massachusetts has 
set out several acres of St. Regis rasp¬ 
berries in spite of the fact that general 
advice is against the planting of this va¬ 
riety as a commercial venture. It is 
true the St. Regis raspberry is small 
when compared with Cuthbert, King or 
Latham, but the plants are extremely 
hardy, so that they can be used with 
confidence almost anywhere. The adapt¬ 
ability of this variety is quite remarkable,, 
for it is the only raspberry that will 
thrive in many parts of the South. It 
also has the advantage of coming very 
early. In my garden it is a w T eek or two 
ahead of any other kind, and early rasp¬ 
berries always bring an exceptionally 
good price, even though they are smali. 
For that matter, St. Regis raspberries 
will make a fairly good showing in the 
market if the plants are grown in hills 
instead of closely in rows. With constant 
culture and plenty of feeding, good-sized 
berries are produced. It is worth while 
remembering, also, that the St. Regis 
berry is very resistant if not wholly im¬ 
mune to diseases of the mosaic type, 
wdiich cause a curious mottling on the 
leaves, and which is doing a tremendous 
amount of damage in New England. No 
one seems to know the cause of these 
diseases or just how to handle them. Some 
good varieties, like Cuthbert, Perfection 
and .Tune, and all the black raspberries, 
are very susceptible. Herbert is some¬ 
what more resistant and the mosaic 
disease is seldom seen on St. Regis plants. 
Just how resistant the new variety, Lath¬ 
am. is, has not been decided. 
Other Varieties. —The Latham rasp¬ 
berry. w r hieh was formerly known as 
Minnesota No. 4, has taken its place as 
one of the best red raspberries in New 
England. It is rather late, but is very 
Burying Raspberry Tips 
productive, firm, and a good shipper. It 
seems considerably hardier than either 
Cuthbert or Herbert, which suffer badly 
by winterkilling. Winter losses are very 
severe in many parts of New T England, 
especially away from the coast. Home 
garden-makers are frequently disappoint¬ 
ed in their efforts to grow Columbian, a 
purple variety which is much prized as a 
raspberry for canning. The variety, 
Royal Purple, is proving much hardier, 
and some commercial growers are sub¬ 
stituting it for Columbian, although the 
fruit is not as large. Most of the red 
varieties sucker freely so that new 
plants are readily obtained. It is less 
easy to propagate varieties of the Co¬ 
lumbian type, which like the blackcaps 
are increased by tip-rooting It is not a 
difficult matter, however, to select plants 
along the outside row, allow them to 
grow freely, and bury the tips with a 
quick movement of a trowel. 
When Birds Bother. —The question 
of scaring away birds, especially robins, 
crows and starlings, is again coming to 
the front. Some farmers find they get 
very satisfactory results in keeping 
crows away by hanging a barrel by cords 
from a pole stuck into the ground at an 
angle. Both ends are knocked out of the 
barrel, and a cord run through it so that 
A Barrel Scarecrow 
it can be suspended horizontally from 
the end of the pole. The slightest move¬ 
ment of the air will cause the barrel to 
revolve, and it is only after a considerable- 
period of investigation that the crows 
become sufficiently emboldened to work in 
the field where it hangs. I have obtained 
the very best results in keeping the 
robins out of the cherry trees by throw¬ 
ing clods of earth into the branches 
whenever I have seen the birds there. 
The bits of earth seem to frighten the 
birds as badly as shot from a gun, even 
though less damage is done, and after a 
few salutations of this kind they cease 
to worry me. One grower says that he 
gets good results in dealing' with the 
birds in different places around the 
grounds by using string which is tied so 
firmly that it cannot be removed. The 
birds will try to carry it away, and seem 
to get frightened when they find it fas¬ 
tened securely. 
Planting Beans. —All garden-makers 
know that cutworms can be kept away 
from tomato plants by surrounding them 
with paper collars, or by setting them 
out in paper pots in which they may 
have been growing. That the same plan 
can be followed in protecting beans from 
cutworms seems to be overlooked. In 
some gardens it is very difficult to grow 
pole Lima beans in particular because of 
the damage the cutworms do. The pests 
can be kept from reaching the plants by 
the simple plan of pulling a paper bag 
over the pole and covering it with earth 
an inch below the surface. The expense 
and labor is very little when this plan is 
followed in the garden. Most commercial 
growers no longer raise the pole Lipia 
beans, however. There was a time when 
considerable business was done in this 
line, one market gardener south of Bos¬ 
ton having about 10,000 poles. In the 
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home garden the so-called Sieva beans, 
which are really dwarf Limas, are very 
satisfactory. They are heavy producers, 
and come earlier than the larger kinds. 
When growing Limas, if one happens to 
have heavy soil it is a pretty good nlan 
to fill in the furrows over the beans 
with sand instead of using the original 
soil, as in this way the beans have much 
less difficulty in pushing up to the sur¬ 
face. E. I. FARRINGTON. 
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