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in so far as pursuing thnt course, sucli has been my success. 

 This year, a few varieties were uncommonly beautiful and 

 perfect, — remarkably so, — and yielded abundantly. The old 

 Westfield Seek-no-Further, upon such trees as I had, gave 

 me one of the finest crops I have ever seen of the fruit, in 

 its most perfect form. The Hurlbut, Avhich is a new variety, 

 that is cultivated extensively in Berkshire County and in 

 Litchfield County, originating in Litchfield County, is a tree, 

 also, that bears abundantly every year, but especially has it 

 favored us in the odd years ; and it is a fruit that we com- 

 mend for planting, from the rigorous growth and hardihood 

 of the tree, its abundant bearing, and the quality of the fruit. 

 I think it must become one of the favorite fruits of New 

 England. 



Mr. Flint. Do you ever wash 3'our trees with potash ? 



Mr. Gold. I use a solution of soda to wash the trees, in 

 preference to potash. You cannot get it too strong; but I 

 have been afraid that I might get a solution of potash too 

 strong. For the scale-bark insect, I have put it on in the 

 spring, just before the leaves put out, just as the scale-bark 

 insect is beginning to start on his travels for the purpose of 

 propagation. He seems to be particularly susceptible to its 

 influences at that time. With regard to the borer, the 

 directions were to dig him out with a wire. Washinsr the 

 trunks of the trees with some mixture that will discourasce 

 the insect from laj'ing its eggs I have found easier, and per- 

 haps better. 



A word with regard to this curculio remedy. You should 

 not put the ashes in until you get ready to apply the 

 ammoniacal or nitrogenous liquor to the branches of the 

 trees. That immediately develops the ammoniacal odor, and 

 it is that that we wish to disseminate through the tops of the 

 trees. Therefore, do not add your alkali until you are ready 

 to apply it. 



With regard to a wash for the trunks of the trees, one 

 made of soap, tobacco-water and fresh cow manure, mingled 

 to the consistency of cream, and put on early Avith an old 

 broom, and allowed to trickle down about the roots of the 

 tree, has proved with me a very excellent preventive of the 

 ravages of the borer, and a healthful wash for the trunk 



