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appearing to be burnt or blistered. "When that blight prevailed here, we frequently saw such 

 cases. The only remedy we are at present prepared to suggest, is that of cutting oflF promptly as 

 possible all affected parts. 



(3) It might be the cause of the first, which is a sort of canker, induced by an unliealthy circu- 

 lation. The other is, as we have said, the fire-blight under a peculiar form. 



(4) What is your best Pear season? We only fear it comes too soon. If it were in December 

 or January, we would be there. At any rate, you must let us hear all about them, 



. (5) Inquire of Messrs. Meeuan & Sanders, of Philadelphia. See their advertisement in this 

 journal. 



(6) Not to our knowledge. 



(7) The Angers is probably the best of all, as we stated in the Fruit Garden three years ago. 

 The Paris or Fontenay stock is not much inferior, and may be even preferable for certain varie- 

 ties and certain circumstances. The Upright lacks sufficient vigor and hardiness, but it makes a 

 good stock for the Orange, Portugal, and other Quinces. 



(8) Nurserymen should suffer tlie consequences of bad packing, unless they pack as ordered by 

 the purchaser. Packing is not the least important part of the nursery business. Those who do 

 not understand packing, and have not the necessary facilities for doing it, should not meddle with 

 distant trade ; if they do, they will certainly get into trouble, and get others in with them. 



(9) We have a very good garden engine, made by Messrs. Downs & Co., of Seneca Falls, N. Y., 

 for about $25. We do not know who makes brass syringes. R. L. Allen, of New York, keeps 

 a general assortment of garden implements. 



I HAVE a garden on the bank of the river St. Clair, which is planted with fruit trees ; the soil is principally of a 

 peaty, vegetable nature, and when I got it, six years ago, was in a very wet, marshy state, caused by the water com- 

 ing through the bank from the land back, but by under-draining it is now quite dry and in such seasons as the last, 

 rather much so. I have carted on to it a quantity of sand and manured it with stable manure and lime. It has been 

 under cultivation five years, the most of which time it has been planted with Apple, Pear and Plum trees, which 

 thrive very well were it not r>r a blight which has attacked them, the manner of which is as follows : — In the month 

 of -June, when they are growing rapidly, aU at once the leaves become black as if they arc burnt, the wood dries up, 

 and the tree dies. I liave this season, as well as formerly, lost several young Pear trees by it. The Plums do not 

 seem affected by it. but the Pears and Apples are very much so. It; the nursery rows some have all this year's wood 

 blackened, some only part of it, while others have only some of the leaves touched, and others, again, not hurt at all. 

 The blight is not confined to .any particular kind or size, nor any section of the low ground— sometimes the tallest 

 are taken, and sometimes the smallest. The blight comes instiintaneously on them, so that in 24 hours or less a fine, 

 growing, healthy tree, or a portion of it, will be transformed into a black unsightly mass. 



I have examined different authors on the subject and cannot determine whether it is fire-blight or not. Tou would 

 oblige me by giving your opinion of it in the next number of the Horticulturist, and let me know if anything can be 

 done to prevent it. 



I have had Swedish Turnips on a part of the land for two ye.irs, and the leaves are also affected at a later period 

 of the year by becoming yellow and withered, when the turnips stop growing. Is it caused by the nature of the soil, 

 or is it something they require ? On the top of the bank, where it is a dry shifting sand, the trees are not so liable to 

 this blight, as on the low mucky ground. A. Toung. — Port Sarnia, C. W. 



As near as we can judge from your description, the malady complained of is the fire-blight, so- 

 called. It is generally believed that trees growing on low, rich, damp soil, are more suscej^tiWe 

 to<he attacks of this blight than those on dryer and poorer soils. We have met with no proofs 

 of this, however, in our own experience. We can suggest no remedy but that of promptly cut- 

 ting away the affected part down to the sound wood, in all cases where it is discovered before 

 the whole tree is affected. When this is the case, destroy it immediately, root and branch. 



There has appeared on my Elm trees a species of insect, Mhich causes a hollow excrescence on the leaf, with an 

 aperture on the under side lea<ling into it. Tliis hollow chamluT is filled with ])urplc colored lice. If you know of 

 a cure or preventive, you will confer a favor by making it known through the IlortictiUiuist. I inclose you a speci- 

 men. Geo. J. IIuouES. — Chatham, Pa. 



excrescence is the work of a species of gall fly. The oidy remedy we know, is to destroy 

 galls or excrescences before the young insects escape. 



