EDITOR'S TABLE. 



Mr. Mathews' remedy for the Ourculio has been communicated to Messrs. Chas. Down- 

 ing, of ISTewburgh ; 0. P. Williams, of Albnny ; and J. J. Thomas, of Macedon ; who are 

 to constitute a committee to put its efficacy to the test. We may expect a rehable report, 

 but we presume it will require several years to experiment. Mr. Fahnestook objected to 

 the large committee previously appointed by our State Society. 



To Correspondents. — Correspondents will oblige us by bearing in mind, that all letters 

 on business should be addressed to the Publisher only in order to secure attention ; and all 

 communications, inquiries, &c., for the Editor, should be addressed to him. The observ- 

 ance of this, will relieve all parties from many little needless annoyances. 



Criticisms ox Horticulturist. — Ir. the April IlortlcuUurht I notice some of your correspondents 

 think you are ruining the work with Pears, Peaches, Ac, ttc. Now, having the Horticidtnrut 

 from the commencement, and speaking for myself individually, I would beg leave to difTer en- 

 tirely from such a statement. 



However much I may have admired Mr. Dowxixg, and there are hut few men that more cor- 

 dially endorsed him in his Horticultural views than myself, yet, since the commencement of the 

 Horticulturist there has been no single feature that T more heartily endorsed than your articles 

 and illustrations on Pears, and I most sincerely hope you will not abandon this feature, without 

 good and sufficient reason^, and a stronger sentiment from correspondents than you have yet no- 

 ticed. 



The portion of illustrations relating to flowers, do not, I am free to confess, interest me much, 

 hut I doubt not there are thousands ot your subscribers who do feel an interest, and as deep an 

 interest, too, in that department, as your correspondents do in any thing they may fancy. 



In regard to the pruning of the Peach : I had given much attention to that subject, having 

 Downing'' s Fruit and Fruit Trees, Barry's Fruit Garden, and the Horticulturist, and was really 

 green enough to believe that I had about mastered the subject, before you commenced publish- 

 ing the article complained of, which, although not strictly applicable to this country in every 

 particular, yet it is enough so that a man of the most ordinary comprehension cannot fail to profit 

 by reading, if he has a single tree to train and prune. 



As a case in point, I would state to you that at the commencement of the year 1853 there were 

 two copies of the January numl^er sent me. The extra number I sent to a friend of mine, who 

 had given some attention to fruit, and he was so well pleased with the feature on Pears that he 

 subscribed for the work, and will probably continue to take it so long as it occupies its present 

 position. 



What do your correspondents recommend in place of those magazine-splitting subjects com- 

 plained of? I would much like to know, and perhaps some other reader of the Hordiullurist 

 would also be glad to lecrn, so that you could be warned in time, before you had split on some 

 sunken rock without a pcsiible chance of salvation. Board.man. 



A Remedy for tue Scaly Arms. — About two years ago I put into n thirty-two gallon cask 

 twenty pounds of sulphur, with about three shovels full of lime, filling up the cask with water, 

 using fully half of tlie solution at the time, for syringing Roses, &.C., that were cfTected with the 

 mildew ; the remainder had stood for three months, and had become very strong, assuming a 

 deep red color. I had at this time a plant of the Epiphylum spcciosuiv. that was so bydly affected 

 with the white scale, that I had taken it out of the house two or three months previous to its un- 

 dergoing the operation I am about to speak of. I may here remark that this plant was in a 

 worse condition than any living plant I had ever seen. I picked it up one day with a view of 

 burning it, thinking it the best mode of getting rid of the live stock, but as I passed the cask 



