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conclusive as positive ; and the last from 

 our veteran Cincinnati nomologist, Mr. 

 Loncworth, flatly recording his experience 

 against the opinions of J. C. H. And now, 

 how doctors disagree. 1 really wish that 

 Mr. Allen, whose paper on Mr. Spal- 

 ding's treatment of his plums, appears to 

 have waked up this discussion, would give 

 you further information on the subject, or 

 get Mr. Spalding to do it himself. Mr. 

 Loxgworth's experience agrees exactly 

 with Mr. Spalding's, thus far, and Mr. L.'s 

 plum trees of twenty-two years of constant 

 bearing, is certainly a reliable fact not easi- 

 ly controverted. 



If paring will stop the ravages of the 

 curculio, three dollars expense for that pur- 

 pose is a cheap remedy, as it will last the 

 entire life of the tree, and the whole ex- 

 pense be paid two or three times over every 

 year in the fruit. 



Now, my good J. C. H., as you are so 

 positive as to what will not prevent the cur- 

 culio, will you be kind enough to tell us 

 what will do it, or can you give us any 

 light on the subject whatever. I will give 

 one hundred dollars for an effectual, a per- 

 manent and practicable preventive for my 

 own trees, and I should clear the expense 

 in one season, and save double the sum be- 

 sides. This ascertained, the plum is as 

 certain a crop in the northern states as any 

 fruit whatever ; but not ascertained, it is a 

 chance matter altogether with nine-tenths 

 of the entire country. 



English Parks. — Odds, Bodikins ! Bu 

 the " Gardener to Professor Sillman " is 

 in a stew ! " Haven't I been there, and 

 haven't I seen ?" said the illustrious Beh 

 Pump to " Squire Dickers." And why 

 should not Mr. Lkuchars know all about it 

 also ? for he not only has been, but was 

 born in England. But softly. If the gen- 

 tleman will just take up the "Mark Lane 

 Express," the leading agricultural paper in 

 England, and read its almost weekly arti- 

 cles and discussions upon " Game preserv- 

 ers," game laws, poachers, Botany Bay, 

 together with agricultural distress, laborers' 

 allotments, " parks of the nobility,'' poor- 

 rates, and high-rents, and all the other 

 grievances which power and entail heap on 

 the powerless and unentailed, and will then 

 tell us by any established fact, the compa- 

 rative annual revenue per acre of any one 

 nobleman's park, in proof of his assertion 

 of their superior productiveness over culti- 

 vated land, he shall have ample credit for 

 it. Mean time wait, my good friend ; old 

 England, I fancy, will not be agonized at 



my remarks. 



Jeffreys. 



Correction.- — In my notice printed in Sep- 

 tember Horticulturist, in the article " Hor- 

 ticultural suggestions, fyc, in twelfth line 

 from the top, for " soils," read evils ; and 

 in Descriptive notes of new Straubcries, 

 first line on top, for " distinguished," read 

 disinterested. J. 



December, 1S49. 



