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The American Bmoiit ok Wooi.y Aimiis. — A correspondent of the London Gardener's 

 Chronicle asks a roiuotly for tliis jiost, and receives the follt)wing reply: 



"Prune your tree bard in, then pnint it over down ns far helow the ground as you cnn pit 

 with the following mixture, viz., half a peck of quick lime, Imlf a pound of flour of sulphui, 

 and a quarter of a pound of lamp black, mixed with boiling water till of the coneistcncy of 

 paint First of all scrape off loose bark, which burn." 



Prof. IIaruis says the following will be likely to prove as successful as any remedy that 

 has been recommended: 



" Scrape off all the rough bark of the infected tree and make them perfectly clean and smootli 

 early in the spring; then rub the trunk and limbs with a stiff brush wet with a solution ot 

 potash in the proportion of two pounds to seven quarts of water; or, a pickle consisting of a 

 quart of common salt in two gallons of water. Small limbs and such parts as may not be 

 withiu reach of the api)lication, should be cut awaj- and burned. 



Imposition. — A correspondent from Germantown, Ohio, writes us as follows: 

 "There has been a man here, taking orders for the Northern Muscadine Grape, at $3 per plant. 

 He has a showy handbill, with a drawing of said Grape, representing it to be as large and shov y 

 as the Concord, and earlior and better than any Grape in cultivation. He is also selling the 

 Augusta Rose at $3 per plant, and describes it as a constant bloomer, very hardy, a strong 

 grower, covering a veranda or front of a medium-sized house in one season, and making a disj^lay 

 of flowers that will continue the whole season through, Ue is also selling Peach trees as being 

 worked on imported stocks of a kind exempt from the attacks of the Borer or Peach-Worm ; and 

 Apple trees which he asserts are grafted so low that the graft takes root; that then the trees are 

 taken up, the remaining portion of the stock or old root cut away, and tlie trees replanted. Now 

 this is all deception ; and yet, strange as it may appear, many peo[ile are induced to believe 

 these false representations." 



This fellow undoubtedly believes that the fools are not all dead yet. 



A New Sekdldtg Strawbeuiit. — I send j-ou a description of a new Strawberry, the most pro- 

 lific I have ever known. This berry fruited about five years since, in my father's garden. Its 

 history is this: My mother was in the habit of planting yearly, seeds from her best berries; 

 most, of course, proved worthless, but this being distinct from all others, was fullj' tested ai.d 

 found on trial to be truly valuable. We gave it her name, and call it Lticy Fitch's Prolijic. 

 It is a pistilate plant, and appears to be a cross between tlie Alpine and Jlovcy's Seedling. It 

 resembles the former in foliage, although much more rank, the leaves being large and growing 

 on strong long stalks. The fruit is of medium size, light scarlet, and in flavor resembles, though 

 sweeter, the best wild Strawberries when fully ripe. It is borne in large trusses on etrorg 

 stems, so long as to keep the fruit entirely from the ground. It parts from the calj'x verj- 

 freely, and continues in bearing much longer than JIovcijs Seedling or Burrs New Pine. It is 

 also very hardy, bearing our open winters well, and protecting so fully the flowers by its leaves 

 as to seldom or ever be injured by the spring frosts, even when others are nearly cut off. I can 

 not tell whether this will prove as fine a fruit east and south as it does west, but if it should it 

 will prove a great acquisition to the Strawberry cultivator. We have one serious draw back 

 here in the culture of Strawberries, which is the havoc made with them by the larva of the May 

 bug. Perhaps some of your readers may know of a remedy ; if so, I hope we may hear from 

 them. 



I would like also to ask how we may prevent the Borers from dc^stroying our Currants. Mas 

 E. F. H. — Monroe, Michigan 



