Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-02-09

Cutting ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS scale I'm
sects---Grafting the Grapc.--H eeping
apples.
A gentleman, thoroughly educated and in.
telligent many years ago was very desirous
TO graft over some poor varieties of pear
trees, and wished Mr.. @. NJ. Hovey to tell him
if it would do to cut the scious in winter. One
of his neghbors told him it would, but, doubt
ing his authority, ho wished Mr.. Hovey, with
his long experience, TO inform him. Mr.. How
ey said his neighbor was correct "Why,"
said he, 81 always supposed the sap went
down into the roots in winter, and the scions
would be useless Mr. Hovoy asked how he
knew there were any holes in the roots for
tho sap to 90 into. He seemed puzzled, and
replied, "Why, l never thought of that" Mr..
Hovoy then said "My dear sir, you can cut
scons any time of year, from the fall of the
leaves until the trees begin to swell their buds,
throw them on the ground and let them re-
main there all winter or if you please, in a
cool place in damp moss tll'the next year
II to IL months nfter they are cut-aud, al
though not quite so good if kept the latter
period, they will grow"
To destroy scale insects, Prof. Comstock
says, the most satisfactory remedy is concern
trated lye-one pound TO one gallon of water
1t does not iniure the fruit buds and most
eiIectualy destroys the scale insect. Whale
oil soap and sulphur mixture is good remedy
in summer, in the proportion of one pound
of soap to one gallon of water. The applica-
ton of the remedy TO small trees is an easy
matter For large trees a bamboo. rod ten
feet long, with spray tip nozzle, has proved
Of value. There is no patent to this rod, and
it may be attached by any one to force
pump. In fighting scale insects on shrubs
and trees, all efforts to destroy them by pois-
oned fumes and by powdered substances have
proved unsuccessful. Pyrethrum has done
more harm than good by killing useful para
sites in large numbers, without making any
appreciable effect on the scales. They cannot
be destroyed otherwise than by actual con
tact.
Prof. Budd gives the following directions
for grating the grape. Root grating, he
says, is as easy and certain as grating the
apple. Scions of Delaware and other fine
sorts may be grated on such strong growing
vines rs the Concord, inserting the CRAFTS on
the crown of the roots early in winter, merely
winding with wuxed thread without waxed
plastcrs, and packing in boxes till spring.
For out-door work, wait till the leaves are
about two thirds developed and set the scion,
by whip or cleft mode low enough to be
mounded for covering the place of union; the
graft will usually make a good growth the
same season. 70 obvnte the difficulty of the
crooked grain of the stock, lay the vine in a
trench, and graft the laterals near the surface
Prof. Budd has known the Delaware thus
grated on wild vines to make growth of ten
feet the same season and bear crop the next
Dr. Hexamer says that some years ago
when he had more apples than he could store
he hired a cellar of noighbOr and put in it
several hundred barrels. When he came to
take them out, he found water in the cellar
three or four feet deep, and concluded they
were a dead loss till lie examined them Some
weeks afterward he found them in excellent
condition-better than those which the water
had not reached The result was ascribed to
the low temperature and exclusion of air to
which we would add uniform degree of cold
aud freedom from the fluctuations caused by
air currents. We suppose the water was near
or at the freezing point. An objection to this
mode of keeping apples is the difficulty of
putting it in practice to any extent.-Ameri-
caR Cu!ticat0r.