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ion is worth just as much as their edtieation, experience, and reasoning, can induce the reader to 

 give, and no more." Is this not the acme of practical pupp3-ism? — yet precisely what we would 

 expect from this doughty garbler of other people's books, who pcoms bo entirely ignorant ol 

 practical horticulture and arboriculture, that, in the plenitude of his benignant charity, he con- 

 siders every other person as much in need of teaching as himself. 



I expect the usual fandango nl)out writing without signing my proper name, but will promise 

 him, if he will write good Englifh, and behave like a man, I shall address him openly ; if not, 

 let him console himself with the reflection of a better man, that a secret friend is better than 

 an open foe. A Member of the Massachusetts HonTici.'LTURAL Society. — Boston, Axuj. 21. 



Our correspondent is well and Avldely known as a practical and scientific liorticulturist 

 of experience — a man who lias works as well as words to sustain, whatever position he 

 may take. We wish his criticism were milder and less personal ; we abhor personalities 

 in which the public can have but little interest, and which are always unedifying and un- 

 pleasant. The truth can always be vindicated and error exposed without the use of names. 

 The innocent young gentleman in question, however, has voluntarily exposed himself to 

 attack, and he must bear the consetiuences. 



The Curculio. — At a meeting of the New York State Agricultural Society, at Albany, Feb. 

 ^th, 1854, four gentlemen and myself were put on a committee to test a discovery of a remedy 

 for the Curculio. Subsequently this committee was reduced to three, on account of objections 

 made by the discoverer of so many being possessed of his discovery. Now, as I was not favored 

 with the secret, and consequently was not able to test it with a discovery of my own, publihed 

 in the Horticulturist, Vol. 6, page 420, iu 1851, I am not able to give you an account comparing 

 the two modes of preventing the attacks of that most fearful insect, as I expected to. I send 

 you, accompanying this, a small box, containing specimens of Plums raised by me by applying 

 my remedy, accounts of which are contained in Vol. G, page 420, also page 524, and in Vol. 7, 

 page 350 and 432, and which I take pleasure in referring to for the benefit of your readers. 

 Tuos. W. Ludlow, Jr. — Yonlcers, N. Y. 



The specimens of Plums referred to did not bear the slightest trace of the Curculio, and 

 we are inclined to believe that Mr. Ludlow's remedy is not without efficacy. We have 

 never tried it; but many of those who have bear testimony in its favor. Our remedy is to 

 shaJce the trees, and pick up and destroy daihj all unsound fruits ; tlius we lessen the num- 

 ber of Curculios, and get heavy crops. The Plum crop here this season is prodigious — 

 every tree seems to be overloaded. Trees that never bore a Plum before are now breaking 

 down. All the remedies tried in this region, the present year, will be entirely successful. 



Pkach cttltdre IX Onio — the Deovth, &c. — A correspondent in Adams county, Ohio, 

 writes us as follows : 



"In 1853, I sold off about nine acres of Peaches to the amount of $3,000, and this when Peaches 

 were plenty and very cheap. Mine were the largest and finest I iiave ever seen, selling at from 

 f!2 to $4 per bushel in the Cincinnati market This year with little over half a crop, and that 

 crippled by drouth, my sales will reach near $2,000. 



"Lime, ashes, and bones, added to our free stone soil, has an e.xtruordinary effect. This, with 

 careful pruning and good culture, will produce the best of fruit. 



" We have had the dryest and hottest season we have experienced for twenty years. Our crops 

 of Corn and Potatoes are poor indeed. For two weeks past there has not been a steamboat m 

 on our beautiful Ohio River. I hope you have had a better season in Western New York 



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