The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-08-08
FARM AND GARDEN
THE CABBAGE FLY.

small white worms that eat into the roots
and kill the plants. The fly is closely re.
lated to the onion fly. The remedy is to
scatter air-slaeked lime around the cab
bage stems on the ground. This deters, the
flies from laying eggs on the plants, as lime
is injurious to them.
EFFECT OF LODGING UPON GRAIN
Spring-sown rye, badly lodged about
five weeks before it was harvested, yielded
only about two-thirds the weight of grain
that was obtained from an adjoining field
that did not lodge. Heinrich also noted
that the shrinkage in weight was partly
due to the lodged grain containing less
water. He suggests that the Judgment
interferes with or entirely prevents the
translocation of materials from the leaves
and stems to the grain consequently, the
time when the injury occures has much to
do with the extent of the loss from lodg-
ing. New England Homestead.
THE BAND OF FRUIT TREES.
AS a general thing healthy trees are able
to get rid of the old bark without any help
from the cultivator, but in many cases they
are all the better for having a little help
from man. In many species of trees there
is an arrangement provided by nature for
helping the plant to get rid Of its bark.
These are called in scientific language
''super cells" that is to say, cork cells.
small brown spots. From year to year,
however, they develop, sometimes eating
into the bark in longitudinal lines, and in
this way from the cracks which ultimately
result in what is known as rough bark.
As it is thus the design of nature to get
rid of the outer bark, ii is good practice to
help nature in this work. For this purpose
washes of various kinds are found in prac-
tice extremely useful. In fruit culture
soapy solutions have been found very cffec
tive and in the unscientifc work of sue
cesful farmers even lime wash has been
found beneficial. In some of the interior
counties of Pennsylvania a farmer would
almost as soon think of never cleaning his
horses as letting his orchard trees 20 with
out IA coating OF lime wash once a year.
The practical results of this treatment
speak for themselves. No healthier trees
or more successful fruit crops can be had
than result from this practice. Meehan's
Monthly.
FAMOUS FRUIT TREES.
The beautiful date palm of the tropics is
indigenous to Asia and Africa, but flour
ishes in all hot countries. There are nearly
1000 species, some eighty feet high and liv-
ing 200 years. Each tree yields about 200
tree has no less than 26O different uses
The trunk furnishes building timber. cook
ing utensils bows and arrows; the roots
are used for fencing and ropes, as well as
articles of clothing.
The fruit of the date palm is the prnci-
pal food for IA greater part of the year of
many peoples. Pounded into solid cakes,
it is carried on trips over the desert. the
stones being fed the Camels Roasted and
ground. the kernels make a good substitute
for coffee and also yield oil.
The graceful banana tree is relative
of the plantain. The rapidly growing
suckers produce at any time of the year
After couple of years the tree dies after
producing several lunches some of which
weigh eighty pounds. The handsome
leaves are usually torn to ribbons by the
trade winds and are ten feet long 4 flax
produced from the fibre is woven into
thin muslin. Green bananas are dried and
ground into flour, which is baked into
cakes. This fruit is so common, that one
of the huge punches we see in the grocery
stores rlay be purchased in the tropics for
twenty five cents and in the planters homes
a bunch always hangs
1t is claimed that plantain trees grew in
the garden of Eden. The fruit is much
the same as the banana, but larger. TIE
breadfruit tree, another tropical plant, is
a native of the Pacific and grows wild in
the forests. 1t has large glossy leaves and
the fruit looks like muskmelon, the in
terror of which tastes like new bread or
batter pudding. 1t is fried in slices or
baked like scalloped oysters.
The iackfruit is from the South Seas and
is a long gourd-like growth, weighing from
twenty to sixty pounds. popularity is
that often the fruit grows directly from
the trunk foot or two from the ground.
The numerous seeds are nutritious and
eaten like chestnuts
\ tree of great beauty is the Indian
tamarind, which has thick trunk, clu.-
tiers of purple yellow flowers and such
fine, gossamer leaves that one of the pun
ishments spoken of in the koran was that
lost souls should have in a thousand years
to quench their thirst as much water as one
of these leaves would contain.
The papaw fruit suggests pumpkin in
appearance and taste and cluster of
dozen are attached in mass to the naked
stem beneath the crown of leaves. They
contain much pepsn, while the leaves, if
wrapped about tough meat, will in a short
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