DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



they would be. There are still many plants in 

 our green-houses that rnay be successfully 

 naturalized. 



The Daphne odora which I last autumn in- 

 formed you had stood out all winter in the 

 garden of Mr. Benner. has again proved its 

 robustness, and has Jloivcred this season. I con- 

 sider this a valuable experiment, as it is making 

 a garden shrub of what was hitherto considered 

 a tender green-house plant, and which is cer- 

 tainly one of the most delicious of all plants 

 in its fragant flowers. Yours truly, G. C. 

 Thokburn. Astoria, May 28, 1851. 



Preserving Cherries from Birds. — Dear 

 Sir: If you or any of your readers ever " lov- 

 ed a tree or flower," and especially a cherry 

 tree on your own premises, covered with a fine 

 crop of particularly early fruit, which you had 

 set your heart upon enjoying, only to see the 

 spoiler come in the shape of a parcel of little 

 cedar birds, or " ring tails." to make a desert 

 of your cherries before you could get a fair 

 chance to pronounce them ripe, you probably 

 understand someting of the sufferings of such 

 disappointed hopes. As these young Ishmael- 

 ites of " ring tails" make their breakfast on my 

 Early Purple Guignes and Bauman'sMay every 

 season, I have been a little provoked at them, 

 and at last have succeeded in baffling them, by 

 suspending three-cornered pieces of new bright 

 tin, about as large as my hand, among the 

 branches. These bits of tin may be had from 

 the tin shops for a mere trifle, or if you take 

 the refuse pieces — for nothing. Punch a hole 

 in one corner, and suspend the tin by a piece of 

 twine from one of the outer branches, so that 

 it may swing freely. As it turns it will catch 

 the light and sunshine, and frighten off the rob- 

 bers. A neighbor, who never does things by 

 halves, has improved on my mode by smearing 

 a branch or two of each tree with bird-lime. 

 This detains one or two of the little thieves now 

 and then, til he makes a sign of distress, which, 

 connected with the awful brightness of the tin, 

 induces them to give the tree a " wider birth," 

 as the sailors say. W. Boston, June 8, 1851. 



The Curcdlio w.^rfare. — If the curculio, 

 as is generally believed, emerges from the 

 ground, immediately under the tree whose fruit 

 it destroys, might not the insect be thoroughly 

 eradicated by burning? For example, the 



trunk could be protected by one or more old 

 stove pipes, stuck in the ground at a little dis- 

 tance from the tree, and the mellow soil hoed 

 up, and incorporated with saw dust, tanner's 

 bark, or something similar, in proper quantity, 

 which being set fire to. would destroy all in- 

 sects, without penetrating to the roots of the 

 tree. By doing this at the proper season, would 

 not this pest be exterminated at once and for 

 ever? George Leslie. Toronto, Canada, 

 26 3fay, 1851. 



Not a bad suggestion for small gardens where 

 there are but a few trees — and where the cur- 

 culio does not migrate from other cjuarters. Ed. 



Staminate Strwberries Productive. — In 

 the may number of your Journal Mr. Long- 

 worth of Cincinnati, in an article on Grapes, 

 says: "That neither Hovey's Seedling or the 

 English Methven Scarlet, will produce half a 

 crop, or bear perfect berries, if separated from 

 all others." 



He then goes on to say, that the same may be 

 said of Burr's New Pine. Of the two first I 

 cannot speak, never having cultivated them, 

 but with regard to the New Pine he is certainly 

 in error. 



Two years ago I procured a few plants of the 

 New Pine direct from the garden of Mr. Burr, 

 in Columbus. They came into full bearing this 

 year, and are now producing a very full crop 

 of berries, of the largest and most perfect kind, 

 without the assistance of " any others." 



In this matter there can be no mistake, I 

 never having grown any other variety of straw- 

 berry, nor are any other kinds cultivated with- 

 in a quarter of a mile of my residence. S. 11. 

 Werb. Newburgh, Ohio. 



[Such cases do sometimes occur, but our 

 Cincinnati friends ignore them. Ed.] 



Budding Roses. — Dear Sir: July is the 

 month for budding roses, and I wish a little 

 space among the Domestic Items to recommend 

 this practice to rose amateurs. The common 

 mode of budding rare roses on stocks near the 

 ground is so familiar that it needs no mention 

 here. What I would like to recommend to the 

 readers of the Horticulturist is, the practice of 

 budding ever blooming roses on the Prairie 

 climbing roses. The effect is, I assure you 

 very beautiful. You select, about the 10th or 

 15th of July, long, clean straight shoots, or 



