The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-08

pounds of plantain. 1t is better adapted
for transportation, as it does not decay
, and spoil as easily as the banana. 1t may
be gathered every day in the year, like the
mamma of Israel, fresh every morning, but
does not spoil like the heavenly food that
! fell in Arabia. 1t must be cooked thor
oughly. 1t may be boiled or fried, but the
best way is to roast, bake or stew.-Los
| Angeles Times.
! Along the line of experimental work it
has been shown that a heavy dressing of
| bone and potash given to trees in the
springtime improves the fruit and causes
! larger returns. This high fertilization is
now in use in New Jersey. J. H. Demise,
| a good Eastern authority on the subject,
says: The cheaper production and raise
the quality should interest the fruit
grower. find background bone and potash
/ give the best returns for a given money
| outlay. If muriate is used, give about 400
pounds of potash and 800 pounds of ground
! bone per acre, one-half applied in the fall,
the remainder after blowing in the spring
sow with crimson clover in August, and
! the clover will furnish the needed nitro
/ gen. Repeat this process yearly. 1t is
] being recognized by practical fruit-growers
| that the free use of potash is essential to
success. 1t not only makes vigorous tree
or plant, but gives fruit of the highest
! quality.
As to the different forms of potash, the
! higher graded are the pest for clay soils,
while the salts in their natural state as
| kainit are used for sandy soils.
If the farmers whose orchards are in
! fected with cut worms will tie a small band
of cotton batten around their trees the
worms, to a considerable extent will be
prevented from getting into the tree, says
the Escondido Advocate. Bran mixed
with paris green and spread close to the
trunk of the tree will also destroy thous-
ands of them. Where the moths are still
depositing eggs q torch lighted and set in
the orchards at night will attract many of
them and will SINCE them. A shallow pan
made of tin with the edges slightly turned
up with enough oil to cover the bottom set
under the torch will catch them when they
fall and match applied in the morning will
effectually destroy every moth so caught.
Constant cultivation close to the tree will
also have beneficial effect in checking the
depredations of the pest.
The Moreno Indicator thus speaks of the
Oldest orange trees in the great valley of
the Upper Santa Ana: The oldest orange
trees in San Bernardino County were
planted by Mrs. Patience Van Leuven, at
Old San Bernardino, in 1868. Mrs. Van
Leuven relates that her father purchased
some oranges-the first she had ever seem
in Los Angeles, and she planted the seeds
and cared for the trees until they came
into bearing. The ranch on which the
trees were grown is now owned by Arson
Van Leuven short distance west of Mrs
Van Leuven's ranch, where she lives in a
Dicturesoue adobe house one of the first
substantial buildings erected in San BeT-
nardino County. The valley was vast
suntiower field when the family moved
there from Salt Lake.
The cherry crop promises to be fully up
to the average, but if we are to have a SUI
perb growth the trees must receive more
or less irrigation, says the Lompoc (Santa
Barbara Coz Record. The young trees
will do fairly well without the aid of more
moisture, but those of twelve or fifteen
years growth proved last year the neces-
sity of more moisture than the average
rainfall of this section The first indica-
ton of lack of moisture will be shown by
failure of the trees to throw out leaves
or bloom at the remote parts of the tree
and in the decreased size of the fruit.
Without moisture the trees in this condi-
ton soon show signs of decay. We there
fore conclude that in order to make cherry
culture pay here they must be irrigitatei
at times.
The peach tree is in New Mexico the
most rapid growing of all trees. At six or
seven years old it will cover space of
ground twenty-one to twenty-four feet in
diameter, but after this its continual crops