DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



CuRCULio. — Your correspondent Wm. Hop- 

 kins, exhibits much judgment in his remarks 

 on the curculio. What good will your plum 

 and poultry yards produce, unless all your phmi 

 growers in the neighborhood, pursue the same 

 course, as you all agree the insect knows how 

 to use its wings? What good can result from 

 lime, salt or tobacco, when the young insect 

 glories in possessing them? All I can say, is, 

 that in 20 years, I have not losta crop from the 

 curculio, from more than 30 trees, in a brick 

 pavement, round my house. From trees in the 

 garden, I liave had a crop for two years only. 

 I see it stated, east, that where a part of the 

 branches extended over a stream of water, no 

 plums were touched by the curculio, but where 

 over the ground, all were destroyed. The rea- 

 son I assign is this. The instinct of the insect, 

 teaches it not to deposit its egg over a pave- 

 ment, as the young, when it falls to the ground, 

 cannot get thro' the pavement, to obtain winter 

 quarters. The insect is timid, and not fond of 

 congregating where persons are constantly 

 passing, or hogs or poultry constantly under 

 the trees. It is true, the hogs and poultry 

 may destroy all the eggs in your plums, but 

 you can generally depend on the liberalitj' of 

 your neighbors, to give you an abundant supply 

 when your fruit is growing. Yours truly, N. 

 LoNGWOKTH. Cincinnati, 0. 



The Nectarine a Smootu Peach — A. J. 

 DoAVNiNG, Esq. — Dear sir: Having read much 

 in the Horticulturist, pro et con, concerning a 

 peach stone producing a nectarine and vice ver- 

 sa, I thought a circumstance that transpired 

 under my own observation the past season, 

 might not prove uninteresting to the readers of 

 the Horticulturist. 



Some five or six years since, I planted a few 

 thousand peach stones to raise stocks from ; but 

 in budding them, quite a number failed to take 

 the bud, and were consequently headed down 

 the next .spring, with the exception of the first 

 in each row, which were left as markers; one 

 of which produced the past season, a crop of 

 peaches and nectarines The peaches were of 

 smallish size, good flavor, and ripened a few 

 days later than the Early York. 



The nectarines were of small size, well co- 



and of fine flavor. Being unwilling to 



to the evidence of my own senses in this 



matter, I preserved a specimen of the necta- 

 rines till the fall show of our (Niagara coun- 

 ty) Horticultural Society, when I presented 

 it to some of our best judges of fruit, who un- 

 hesitatingly pronounced it a bona fide nectarine. 

 This tree never has been grafted or budded. I 

 did not find thera, the fruit, on the ground, but 

 picked them off the tree myself. These are 

 facts, and (to me at least,) conclusive and selt- 

 convincing, which cannot be controverted. 



If you think the above worthy of insertion 

 in the Horticulturist, it is at your disposal. 



I have taken the Horticulturist ever since its 

 commencement ; it is my hand-book on all sub- 

 jects of which it treats. I remain yours most 

 sincerely, Jas. Culver. Royalton, March 10. 



Foreign Vines in North Carolina. — A. 

 J. Downing, Esq. — Sir: I am much obliged 

 to you for all you are jileased to say on the 

 cultivation of the vine in general, and especial- 

 ly with respect to the universal failure, in this 

 country, in cultivating the European varieties 

 in the open air; though I have been acquainted 

 with those same prevailing opinions for a great 

 many years. I can add to the authorities cited 

 by you, that of the late President Thomas Jef- 

 ferson, who stated to me so far back as 1819, 

 his utter failure, and his inability to succeed in 

 cultivating the European varieties at Monticel- 

 lo. Professor Caldwell, at Chapel Hill, N. 

 C, has also failed. Many more could be added, 

 such as MiCHAux's (the botanist,) experiment 

 in South Carolina, which equally proved a fail- 

 ure. Herbemont in South, and Laspevre in 

 North Carolina, met only partial success, so far 

 as I can learn. Still, so far back as 1821 and 

 1822, I succeeded in cultivating them in Fau- 

 quier county, Virginia, on the farm of Dr. R. 

 Peyton. I understand that Judge John Scott 

 has had since, great success in the same county. 



Wherever I have been, I have found that the 

 idea you entertain, about European varieties 

 not succeeding in " this country," in the open 

 air, is every where prevailing. " The thing is 

 impossible," you say; certainly in the state of 

 New- York. Though Mr. N. Longwortii did 

 not succeed, as he did me the honor to inform 

 me at Cinc'nnati, still that is no reason for my 

 trial not succeeding G° of latitude farther south. 



I may here state that the fig tree and almond 

 tree, do weil with us in the open air, and that 

 my Muscat, dc Frontignan and White Chasse- 



