Show L i FlatHeaded Apple Tree Borer This Is a very abundant Insect though It Is not so destructive ns tho round hcaded borer The adult Insect measures about half an Inch in length H Is flattened above resembling resem-bling a snapping beetle Tho antennae nro short the eyes large and tho fore with conspicuous legs are armed In front a spicuous tooth Time upper surface of tho body Is dark metallic brown and fresh specimens are coated here nnd there with a powdery gray substance sub-stance which Is easily rubbed off Unlike tho roundbeaded borer this Insect works In tho day time being most active In tho heat of tho day It Is also frequently found on prostrate pros-trate trees basking In tho sun Tho beetles aro active creatures running rapidly and flying readily This species attacks by preference diseased or dying 4 r ic FIll 3Cin nMirtt ftmorata a inns B beetle o head or male d gupa twice liar ural size original trees Inhabits all parts of a tree from tho baso of tho trunk to tho limbs and Is not restricted In its ravages to fruit trees It Is Injurious chiefly to young trees Its Injuries being practically confined to newlyplanted nursery stock and to trees that have been weakened through any cause such as careless pruning or Insufficient nourishment nour-ishment duo to poor soil or drouth Some writers claim that healthy trees aro not Injured at all It Is a wellknown fact that many forms of boring Insects prefer Injured plants but when these aro wanting do not hcsltato to attack perfectly sound growth and records show con clnjlvely that tho present species is Included In this category Infestation may bo detected by tho discoloration of the bark Give the orchard good care feeding tho trees freely through their roots nnd little damage will result Washes of various vari-ous kinds aro good for the trees especially espe-cially tho limo wash These check borers Value of the Currant The vaitio of tho currant Is not yet appreciated by tho American people Greece is every year making fortunes out of It for the people there have learned how cheaply It can bo pro duced Currants havo become a great feature In Greek exports and tho uiuieu mutates is importing largo quan tltes of them every year Those that travel about the northern states cannot can-not fall to have noticed with what luxuriance the currant grows as they go north The currant as wo know It delights In cold weather and hard conditions Tho International boun lary line between the United States and Canada Is not by any means the northern limit of its growth It grows certainly 200 miles north of the Brit Ish line thriving well In Northern AI icrta In Saskatchewan and Athabas ca provinces the currant Is found growing luxuriantly The writer has seen It growing and loaded with fruit where tho earth was frozen solid two feet below it The inhabitants of these provinces say We can beat tho world In raising currants Tho cur rant is however not a tropical fruit nor does it do well In even the lower part of the temperate zone The fact that It grows well through a region quite generally bare nr f ° of lomaceous fruits shows its value as It can bo made a profitable fruit producer in sections of country whero other fruits arc tfmo8010 tiny horticulturists will find time to experiment with cur rants and the possibilities locked In this fruit will bo brought out up The June Berry One of the fruits yet to come prom Inently Into notice Is the TH Juno This berry has a Vide Kerry range of hail tnt The writer used to pick the i berr on tho Maine coast Jt berry where known as tho Sugar Plum It Was It wild there grew and no IT one think of seemed to ago ho saw cultivating it growIng It Jn years wild on the north branch of the sasK River in British Saskatchewan America called tho Sackntoon hemhf ° It Is hem being asked why thoy dId A native not cultivate small fruits roni try tO replied have enough wild fruits 1Vo as the toon and other berries ° SlIsl1 grow nbundance The bushes In great writer seen hy time grew ten feet high ° loaded with fruit in all stages aM Wero ness This was the at ripe 20th of A few weeks Juno ago In nols we picked ripe Southern IIII 1 Juno bushes six feet hIgh L berries from domesticated state growing In a tho pleasure of Afterward Wo mad which hnd been eating time berries canned win berries the Proves with gOOSe year to say that this fruit It Is safe has in that Is worthy of uovolnmi It much development June berry oi tho future T1 The different from its IIIny bo ns Lii present iHi as Is our most perfect Wld form nmi from the wild crab fromwn apple different been evolved which It has |