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mulched in tlie summer season, and they have grown very sIotv. I have a Black Eagle, that was 

 set out two years ago, and has not grown a foot in that time, and does not exceed two inches in 

 diameter, and the bark has cracked to the wood this season. A. 0. Babcock. — East Troy, Wis- 

 consin. (3.) 



(1.) The reason of your finding the ants and aphis always in company is, that the ants 

 feed upon a sweet fluid discharged by the aphis. You will see this if you observe closely- 



(2.) The wash recommended in the May'number may be safely applied to all parts of the 

 tree on which bark-lice may be found. 



(3.) Rapid growth may contribute towards producing the malady known as the bursting 

 of bark, but it is by no means the sole or chief cause. A tree, growing slowly, may have 

 soft, imperfectly matured wood, as weU as one growing rapidly ; rapid growth is safe enough 

 if made at the proper season — say June or July. The bursting of the bark is the result of 

 injuries sustained by tlie freezing and thawing of winter. The vessels, or cells, become 

 disorganized by expansion and contraction, and the sap becomes diseased. Cherry trees of 

 a hardy nature, such as Dukes and MoreUos, and those well sheltered from the sun and 

 cold winds in winter, or protected by some covering, escape injury of this kind. 



Fruits, and FRurr Trees in Iluxois and Wisconsin. — This is our bearing year for peaches. 

 There will be an abundance of seedling peaches in the northern part of this State this year, and, 

 I believe, through the whole State. They do not bear oftener than once in three or four years^ 

 and, with me, seedlings have been much hardier than any cultivated variety that I have tried. 

 "Winter before last, I presume, one-third of all the peach trees in Northern Illinois were killed. 

 Mine were more than one-third killed in all situations except a row of about fifty trees planted 

 on the west side of a tight board fence six feet high, where none of them were killed, and I think 

 this is a fact worthy of note in a country where the peach tree is so liable to winter-kill. Apples 

 grow well all over the prairie country, and pears promise well in this vicinity. Your fruit-men 

 who have sent their tens of thousands of barrels of apples and pears yearly to sell here must look 

 elsewhere for a market soon, as young orchards are coming into bearing all over the country, and 

 each year our nurserymen are increasing their sales greatly. I can get no peai's from the Duchesse 

 iV Angouleme ; they blossom early and very full, but seldom set an_y pears, and when they have 

 set, the wind blows them off before they get ripe. 



Do you know anything about a very large peach originated in Poughkeepsie called the Fine- 

 apple Cling. If it is so large and fine as I have heard it recommended, I should want to get it. (1). 



I want some good blackberries to cultivate. Our native fruit is not very good. Do you know 

 where I can get the best variety ; and do you know anything about Mr. Lawton's variety of 

 New Rochelle, which was noticed in the Horticulturist ? (2). John Gage. — M^aulcegan, 111. 



(1.) A synonym of the Lemon Cling — a very good variety. 

 (2.) It is said to be a fine variety. 



I received some Deodar Cedars this spring and planted them just as they came from the mu'sery, 

 and I now find that some of them have three or four leaders or stems all in a clump, of about 

 equal strength, while others have only two. Should I cut them all down to a single stem or not? 

 They look very handsome in their present condition, being only two or three feet high ; but 

 what their appearance might be when they arrive at considerable size I cannot tell, as I have 

 only seen small plants. A. J. N. — Montgomery, Ala. 



Select the strongest and best placed shoot for a leader, and encourage it by tying up 

 pinching the others slightly. 



