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The Curculio. — There is, after all, some prospect of discovering an effectual remedy for 

 the curculio. The Hon. James Mathews, of Coshocton, Ohio, from whom Ave had a com- 

 munication on this subject last winter, writes as follows : 



" I have been experimenting thoroughly this season on ray discovery of last year of what I then 

 supposed to be a remedy for curculio. I have applied remedies based upon three separate theo- 

 ries, suggested to ray raind by my experiment of last season. All have failed but one, which has 

 proved successful beyond my most sanguine expectations. I have saved the fruit on five plum 

 trees and one apricot tree. Last year was the first that I raised a dozen plums in my garden, and 

 I never saved an apricot till this season. I had destroyed all the trees of those which I had, on 

 account of the supposed impossibility of saving the fruit, except one tree of the Black apricot, on 

 which I now have perfect fruit, ripe, not one of them having been stung since I applied my remedy. 

 I am now satisfied that I have found a sure and easy remedy, and all who see the crop of fruit 

 that I now have are likewise convinced. The trees on which I have saved the fruit, are one 

 Green Gacje, one Yellow Gage (Prince's), one Caledonian, one Knight's Green Drying, one Royal 

 Hative, and one branch of Kirk's Purple, from a bud of four years' growth on my Black apricot. 

 I shall have several bushels of perfect plums. In order that my remedy may be more thoroughly 

 and satisfactorily tried and demonstrated, if it be efficient, I shall submit it to horticultural com- 

 mittees, in some of the States, next spring, with specijic instructions. One of these shall be 

 Kew York ; and if they report favorably, I shall then make it public, with all my observations of 

 this insect for the last year, which I think will bring to light some new theories and new develop- 

 ments heretofore imknown and un-thought-of, in relation to the character and habits of this 

 enemy. 



" Having, however, spent so much time, labor and investigation, to discover the remedy, (if it 

 prove to be effectual when put fairly to the tost,) I may not give the matter full publicity until 

 horticultural societies in the country feel interest enough in the matter to offer such premiums as 

 a discovery of this character may merit. I shall plant an orchard in the spring, of plums, necta- 

 rines, and apricots, with full confidence that I have nothing further to fear from the depredations 

 of curculio." 



We may state in this connection, that for several years we had abundant crops of plums 

 without any other remedy than shaking the trees and destroying promptly all pimctured 

 fruit. 



Lime and Sulphur versus the Curculio. — Tliis is the third season that I have been successful in 

 destroying the eggs of the Curculio after they were deposited in the fruit, and I therefore do feel 

 assured that the compound used by me is an effective remedy, (found in Vol. VII., page 432.) 

 I strongly recommend its general use, and if it is thoroughly applied I have no doubt that in a few 

 years this vexatious little beetle will no longer be considered a pest, but rather as a welcome 

 visitor, to aid the trees in throwing oflf part of their crop, in order that those which are left 

 behind may be better grown, and more^finely ripened. Tuos. "W. Ludlow, Jr. — Yonkcrs, West- 

 chester county, N, Y. 



