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him in even stronger terms of the same kind, for I assure him that I never had so many grapes in 

 a house one hundred feet long till the vines were five years old, as he had this year on his vines, 

 for I always pinched off every bunch before it even had time to open its blossoms. 



I thank Mr. M. very sincerely for his entertaining story, and hope he will continue to report the 

 progress of his vines from year to year. 



I am happy to add my testimony in corroboration of Mr. Ludlow's, as to the efiicieney of lime 

 and sulphur as a preventive of the curculio, I have been many yeai-s experimenting to find some 

 means which could he profitably applied to prevent the ravages of this insect, but have never ripened 

 a dozen plums in an orchard of twenty trees, though they have been covered with fruit every 

 spring. Last spring, however, at the suggestion of Mr. Stokes, of "West Philadelphia, I applied 

 the lime and sulphur, according to Mr. Ludlow's directions, and though some of the fruit was 

 afterwards stung, no ill efi"ect followed ; and though I thinned out the fruit a great deal, I was 

 finally forced to prop my trees, and have been regaled for gome time past with such fruit as we 

 have never before been able to ripen here. The remedy is so easy that it may be applied exten- 

 sively, at trifling expense. H. W. T. Cleveland. 



" I lang hae thought," Mr. Editor, 

 "A something to have sent you, 



Tho' it should serve nae other end. 



Than just a kind memento." 



I know but little, sir, of the business in which you are engaged, viz: Horticulture and its 

 kindred branches ; yet I know enough to wish to know more, and to feel interest in the success 

 of the enterprise. Then, sir, set me down as a well-wisher, and one who, if he had the capacity and 

 leisure, would like to be a contributor. I am a cultivator of fruits, on a small scale — a little 

 enthusiastic {cracked, if you please,) on the subject; and wherever I find one of kindred feelings, 

 why, sir, I "lo'e him like a vera brither" — "I know no Xorth, no South, no East, no West" — 

 "his people shall be my people, and his God my God." 



And here it may be appropriate to mention my admiration for your predecessor, A. J. Downing. 

 If men are to be estimated by the good they do while living, long sliould A. J. Dowxixg be 

 remembered with gratitude by his countrymen. He has done more to combine " the useful and 

 the beautiful," than any man of the present age. He has done more to create and model a 

 proper taste for the adornment and decoration of home, to make home, "sweet home," lovely, 

 and thus make men true patriots, than all the politicians that have lived since "Abraham begat 

 Isaac." Why one with such enlarged and enlightened capacity to enjoy this beautiful world, 

 and the business and pleasure of whose life was to make it still more beautiful, should have been so 

 suddenly and so rudely removed from it, is a mystery alone to be solved in that bright and blissful 

 paradise, where he has gone, and whither we may follow, if we be but "chaste," but "innocent 

 like" him, " as firm in friendship, and as fond in love." But, sir, others who knew him better, 

 and therefore loved him more, have eulogized him in better taste, and more appropriate stvle, 

 than I can. But my heart was in it, and I could not say less ; to say more would be not only 

 useless, but imprudent in me. 



Mr. Editor, I have told you that I was a cultivator of fruits in a small way, and having a 

 leisure time at present, my purpose in commencing this communication was simply to comply 

 with a request made by you sometime since, that your readers would note the season of ripening 

 of the different fruits in their respective localities. I had several kinds ripen the present 

 season, but noted only some plums and peaches. And first, as to plums. In this section (Gran- 

 ville county, in which I reside, is one of the northern counties of Korth Carolina, between the 

 3Gth and 3Tth degrees of north latitude,) Bolmor's Washington was the first to ripen — July 20th. 

 The Hed 2fagnum Bonum, the 25th of July ; and Lf I have the true Red Magnum Bonum, 

 most excellent plum, equal, if not superior to the former as a dessert fruit, larger, of oval 



