EDITOR'S T.VBLE. 



Our correspondent, 11. "W. S. Cleveland, Esq., who has contributed to the pages of this 

 Journal since its commencement, has sold his fine farm near Burlington, N. J., and is about 

 to take up his residence somcAvhere iu New England. lie cannot but feel something of 

 regret at parting with the orchards, vineyards, gardens, and graperies, to which he has 

 devoted so much attention for many years. We wish him a favored spot for his new home, 

 and hope to have an early account of his improvements. 



A FIXE Hedge of Buckthorn. — Tlie finest Buckthorn hedge we liave seen in this coun- 

 try, is that enclosing the grounds of Elox IIuntixgdon, Esq., occupied by R. Mattison & 

 Co.'s nursery, in the north part of the city of Rochester. It is some six or seven years 

 old, about five feet high, and between three and four feet wide from bottom to top, and 

 impenetrable to the sight as a stone wall. Its effect upon the ground enclosed, and indeed 

 upon the neighborhood, is imposing and beautiful. 



An I.nterestixg Lkttek from Micuig.^s, on various xoncs. — What sLal] we do to get rid of 

 the Peach worm ? It seems to me most writers on fruit-culture entirely under-rate the mischief 

 they do. This is certainly the case, if th^y are as troublesome in other parts of the Union as in 

 this vicinity. In clay soils, and where the trees stand in a lawn or grass plat, they are less trouble- 

 some ; but unless some remedy shall be found, the culture of the Peach in gardens, especially 

 where the soil is sandy, will be abandoned in a short time, in this place. Some of our most zeal- 

 ous and intelligent amateur cultivators are ready to give it up in despair. Exterminate the 

 worms ever so carefully with the knife or boiling w\ater, and apply ashes faithfully, as directed in 

 books, in the fall you find the worms have made a lodgment in the roots of your trees. If the 

 trees are small, you find them nearly or quite girdled, or so injured that the cold of the following 

 winter kills them; and hunlreds of large trees are dead, or are dying a lingering death, by 

 their means. Tobacco has been used heretofore with success ; but that fails now. A citizen of 

 this place says he has used coffee-grounds placed around the tree, with good effect ; but a single 

 season's trial of any thing is insufficient, especially wlien it has been used on two or three trees 

 only. I last y-?ar appliel lim3 to two tre^s, in the manner reeommjnled by J. C. "Wright, in 

 the Horticulturist of 1851, page 169. The earth was removed so as to form a basin around the 

 tree, four or five inches deep ; this cavity was filled with what masons call putty, that is, a paste 

 made of lime, rising two or three inches above the surface of the ground. This formed a cement 

 impenetrable to the grub ; and on examining these two trees a few days since, they were found 

 free from worms, while others standing near, which were treated di(Teren!ly, were seriously 

 injured by them. Whether any bad results might follow the application of this remedy to very 

 young trees, or when growing rapidly, or whether it would be as successful as in this instance^ is, 

 yet to be determined. (1) 



The cold of the past winter has been unusually fatal to trees, shrubs, and plants, here.. The 

 mercury did not sink lower than it frequently has done before, but the ground was barcy almost 

 the entire winter, and the changes from moderate to cold were frequent and sudden. SJsnawber- 

 ries, unless fully protected, have been generally killed. A great many Peach trees^ tspecially 

 those that had been injured by the worm, have died. A great many dwarf Peara have, diajd' 

 the Quince roots and stocks, up to the union with the Pear, being black, while the Pear-wood apd 

 bark appeared healthy. (2) I confess I felt rather sad wlien I pulled up a number of tree?, that 

 in the fall appeared every way promising, and used thom for Pea sticks. Well, if we had, no 

 troubles of this sort, I suppose fruit-culture would be too much as Adam had it, when he com- 

 menced gardening. 



bella Grape vines in my garden, an inch or more in diameter, have been killed to the ground, 

 vicinity, the Isabella is much more liable to be winter-killed tlian the Catawba. The lat- 



