4g9 Insects. [October, 



4th. Plant trees early — as soon as circumstances will permit after 

 the wood is ripe. Don't wait till the leaves fall, but cut them oif, 

 being careful not to injure the buds. Late planting, however, if 

 well done, may be equally successful. 



5th. Secure all trees from being blown about by the winds, and 

 mulch with half-rotten manure or leaves three or four inches deep. 



Asparagus, rhubarb, gooseberries, and currants should all be 

 planted in the fall, and as early as possible. Also, hardy bulbs, 

 such as hyacinths, tulips, narcissus, crocus, crown imperials, and 

 lilies. It is also the best season to top-dress and renovate neglected 

 trees of all sorts, to make new walks and repair old ones, to lay 

 down turf, and perform such operations as grading, draining, trench- 

 in"-, etc. Our springs are short, and hot summer weather very often 

 comes too soon. It is therefore well to make a good use of every 

 hour between this time and the freezing of the ground. — Horticult- 

 urist. 



(From the Spir'.t of the Agricultural Press, 111.) 

 INSECTS. 



It is a well known fact that the alarming increase of insects and 

 cold-blooded worms in making ravages upon grain and fruit trees, 

 not only paralyzes the exertions, and disheartens the efforts of our 

 farmers, but indicates a threatening destruction to the rise and pro- 

 gress of some of our most delicious fruit trees. So extensive are 

 their ravages, that but very few of the fruit arrive at maturity with- 

 out premature decay from the swarms generated by beetles which 

 surround the trunks, when the tree is yet feebly developed. The 

 reason that insects, so placed around trees, arc injurious, is, because 

 plants, including everything under the head of the vegetable king- 

 dom, develop themselves from the center to the circumference ; con- 

 sequently the tangible influence of insects have a direct tendency to 

 arrest the progress of their vital economy. 



Instead of complaining, as interested and superficial people arc 

 always doing, and particularly at the present time, that birds are 

 constantly troublesome, the great trouble is, that there is not enough 

 of their interposition with the agricultural interests of the husband- 

 man, who, thinking they are a nuisance around his vineyard, take 



