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summer, wash the List of May or June. If the miller has laid the egg, 

 which produces the borer, this wash is death to the egg, and millers will 

 not deposit their eggs in a tree thus washed with the wash described. 

 Wash the trunk, branches and limbs as far as the rough bark goes. A 

 man can wash from 200 to 300 trees a day, with a forty-cent flat paint 

 brush. I would not do without this wash for one hundred dollars a 

 year. 



• JACOB FAITH. 



FOR BORERS AND RABI5ITS,« 



Pure pine tar i gallon 



Strong soft soap i pound 



Boiled linseed oil i quart 



Tobacco cut up fine I pounds 



Strong sifted ashes i quart 



Pulverized rosin i pound 



SMALL FRUITS. 



Jl^. bruit Grozvers' Journal: 



In a recent number of your most excellent paper I find the obser- 

 vations of J. B. Miller on some of the new varieties of strawberries. 

 Now for the purpose of contrasting the behavior of some of the same 

 varieties in my locality: My soil, I presume, is entirely different 

 from his ; my soil is red or mulatto as it is termed by some, well under- 

 drained with fhnt and lime stone rock. The Belmont, which he calls 

 perfection, is here a good, strong growing plant, no rust or sun scald, 

 yields hardly half a crop, of all imaginable shapes from an inch long 

 and round to fanshaped seven or eight inches from point to point and 

 about one and a half inches across the center. I shall discard it entirely. 

 Jewell and Parry quite productive and handsome, too soft to ship, quality 



