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power to supi'fintoml underJraining ft fow acres I liuvc lately bonglit, ami can yo" give mo tlio 

 aJilross of liio maker of llio beat tilos 1 Tliore are many other matters rc<iuiring coii.-ideration, but 

 ns I received the Uorticultarlst late in the month, I must deter naming tliem till you have a little 

 breathing spell. You have by this lime, perhaps, perceived one other eaiise why staying at homo 

 is necessary; there may be other reasons than being "too happy:" Tiiero is too much to take 

 care of. 



Meantime, if you should come eastwardly this summer, ask Mr. B.iuuY to give you a letter of 

 introduction to Amtus. 



SlnjBijotrjs to CorrtSiJouiriits. 



Allo-w me to ask a faror, and answer tne under the head of correspondence. I consider myself a novice in tlio 

 nursery business, and labor under great disadvantages in budding Peaches. I generally suffer a loss of onc-lialf of 

 my newly-buddcd Teaches in tlie spring ; and Plums also. I have exhausted all my ingenuity, and made no im- 

 provements; the buds will ajipear to be all doing well, pushing out until llic leaf makes its ajipearance, and then 

 great numbers come to a dead stand ; after some warm, dry days, they become loose and drop off, the same as win- 

 ter-killed blossom-buds do. I havo Dotvning's Fruit and Fruit Trees of America, Oole'8 Fruit Book, and your 

 Fruit Gadren, and have been a constant reader of the leadingjournals of the day, and Lave never found anything 

 to this purpose ; the loss is no small item lo me. Please give me what light you can on the subject. (1) 



I found my Gooseberries attacked by an insect which destroyed my whole crop ; last season the crop fell prema- 

 turely from the bushes ; upon close examination they appeared to be punctured as with the point of a needle. In the 

 transparent varieties, I could see the windings and courses the young larva had taken, and when full grown, would 

 eat its way out, and make its way into the ground. The size of the worm is about one-fourth of an inch in length, 

 white, somewhat slender, with a liead quite blaek. The insect is new to me, and I feel very much alarmed about my 

 next crop. (2) We annually rejoiced over a lovely crop of Gooseberries; they were always exempt from mildew. 

 The remedy I resorted to, was to shake down all the fruit, which was an easy matter, and drag them into the walks 

 to be trodden upon ; but the scorching sun soon finished tlie cooking process, until life was extinct. Any informa- 

 tion you can give mc on the above will be thankfully received. 



Peaches will be a total failure in our locality the present year ; the blossoms arc all winter-killed. SAXirEL Stosee- 

 —Ilumherstone, C. W., April 17, 1S51. 



(1.) Bud early in the season, and use shoots to bud from on which the leaf-buds are small. 



(2.) "We have not seen such an insect as you describe. Send us a specimen the coming season, 



if you can. 



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Tou know a person sometimes gets confused, and either commits a blunder, or docs nothing at all. It is thus with 

 me, in relation to the application of tan-bark to Strawberry beds. 



An intelligent amateur, on the Hudson, in detailing his experiments with the Strawberry, 'n your instructive Hor- 

 ticulturist, says, he applies tan in the fall, up to the crown of the plants, (not stating how thick), and in the spring 

 levels, and makes it equal over the bed, to the depth of three inches, lie also recommends mulching with tan, im- 

 mediately after planting in the spring or summer. Another recommends applying tan in the full ; another in the 

 fpring. One makes use of the term '■Afresh tan'' ; one " fipent tan" ; and another " old tari''. 



Some six or seven years since, I mulched, in December, after the ground had frozen up, three-fourths of a Straw- 

 berry square, with tan that had been about my premises for at least eighteen months, and for three years thereafter 

 there was a marked favorable differnee between the part mulched and the remaining quarter. The tan was spread 

 evenly over the whole surface, to the depth of about three inches. 



In the fall of 1S50, 1 had about one-fourth of an acre of fine appearing plants, scarcely one missing, set out the 

 previous spring. This bed I covered with tan just drawn from tlie tannery. This application was made before the 

 ground was frozen. The result was, that nearly the whole were dead in the spring; and those having any life, so 

 stunted as to amount to nothing. The varieties were Ilovei/s, Large Earhj Scarlet, and Willey's. The soil sandy 

 loam, and stiff loam. 



Now I think this result was effected by the taa Am I right? One of my neighbors, also, attributes the loss of his 

 plants to the same cause. 



I have just pl.inted out a few squares of favorite varetics, and am desirous of mulching them, with something, 

 do it with " tan-bark," "//•ftsA tan-bark," or " oW tan-bark,"— and how deep— and in the fall shall I cover 

 crowns and all— and on tho opening of spring is it necessary to remove it from the crowns, or will they push through it ? 

 you please, Mr. Editor, give us in the next number of the Horticulturist, your views on this subject, and in a 



