EDITOR'S TABLE. 



I thought bfst, T 8olocto«l llio MaasachuscttB Ilorticulturnl Society, N. Y. State Society, ond the 

 Uiiitotl States Agriciilturni Society, wliitli met nt AVashingtou city. The committees to be 

 a|>p(>intiHl were to ecnsist of tliree persons eacli ; I was tlius instructed by Mr. Matiikws ; I ((nilil 

 not transgress my autliority. Tlie other societies, I believe, appointed tlircc each ; at least, I 

 received a letter from lion. M.^rsiiall P. Wildkr, stating that lie was chairman of a committee of 

 three, appointed by the United States Agricultural Society, I think, Tlio secretary of the N. Y- 

 State Society informed mc that they had named six persons, giving me their names and residences' 

 I adopted the three first names; and in fo doing I venture to say, if one dozen had been appointed 

 and accepted, the test or proof would not have been more conclusive than with the three. Tliey 

 are not only practical pomolor/isls, but hi(/li-)iihul(J, honorable men; consequently their report, 

 whether favorable or not, will have the confidence of the people. This committee is located at 

 Albany, Newburgh, and Maccdon. / am expciiinenting at Syracuse, with others, besides experi- 

 ments are being made at Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio, as I am informed. If all of these com- 

 mittees and experimenters, scattered over the country from Washington city to Cincinnati, Ohio, 

 are not sufficient, I think one hundred would not be more so. Mr. Mathews thought, also, that 

 the liability to its becoming known would be much greater by confiding the remedy to so many 

 persons, than if it was made known to just a sufficient number. I had an objection, also, on 

 account of the labor it would require of me. I had been (and was, up to April,) sick the greater 

 part of the winter ; and as Mr. Mathews had written out at length his observations on the habits 

 of the eurcolio, Ac, and had requested me to make the same known to every member of each 

 committee, it would impose^upon me the necessity of writing a number of copies, which were 

 very lengthy. These are the reasons why a committee of not more than three was accepted. 



The next point I wished to notice, was the time you think it will take to test the remedy — viz : 

 Several years. I feel fully persuaded, and I think every committee appointed will be of the same 

 opinion, that if it is successful now, this season, it will be always, every season ; because the remedy 

 is philosophical — founded upon nature's laws. It cannot be otherwise, if it answers at all. It is 

 utter destruction to the pests we have to contend with. Every man possesses what is necessary 

 for the operation. The cost is in a manner nothing. I would ask, if you had four or six Plum 

 trees in a row, the branches of each not meeting by four to six feet, and you apply the remedy to 

 the second tree about the time you see they have just commenced making the crescent-shaped 

 incision. You then wait a few days longer, and take the fourth tree ; when you arrive there you 

 find that at least one-half are stung. You apply the remedy to this tree, and for the satisfaction 

 of investigator?, you let them see you pluck every Plum from five or six branches that are incised, 

 and leave none on but what are sound. Now for the result, — If the fruit on the first, third, fifth, 

 and sixth trees, are all stung, and fall off, and the second tree is overloaded with fruit, and a suf' 

 ficient crop on the fourth, and not a Plum can be found punctured on the five or six limbs, from 

 which the punctured fruit had been previously picked, I ask, is this not conclusive ? The rem- 

 edy has saved the Plums where it was applied, and all the contiguous trees to which it was not 

 applied, east their fruit. The above are the facts in Syracuse. We have a Nectarine tree which 

 has never borne a single fruit. We waited until fully one-half were punctured by the turk, and 

 then the application was made ; the punctured fruit on some limbs were pulled off, on others the 

 incision was cut out of each Nectarine. The result Avas as above stated ; and I can now show 

 you as handsome fruit on this tree as ever grew, and this is the first time for years. So are Plum 

 trees loaded with fruit, where the remedy has been applied. I am satisfied, in my mind, that if 

 the remedy is applied strictly as ordered, that no tree uill fall of having a full crop of fruit any 

 year. Recollect, the application has to be made only once each year. A. Fahnestoctc, Syracuse. 



We certainly had not tlie slightest intention to create prejudice, or convey any false 

 impressjion concerning Mr. Mathew's remedy. We entertain strong hopes that it "will 

 prove effectual, and have entire confidence in Mr. M.'8 integrity in the matter, whether it 



