Snsfajjcrs to Q^oxxiSfoninntg. 



(D. H. P., Lyons, Iowa.) Tuk Bark Louse. — To get rid of this pest on the small branche?, you 

 must prune them in closely ami wash all the remaining parts as you suggest. 



f (A New Jersey Subscriber.) Pears. — The Bergamot Sageret is a large roundish Pear of second 

 quality, melting but insipid. It keeps till January, and is not likely to prove of much value. It 

 is very similar to, if not identical with, Belle Connaise, another of Sagerkt's varieties. 



Willow Hedges. — If " H. H., of Winchester Center, Conn.," will have a little more patience, 

 we will give him some information about Willow Hedges as soon as the experiments are more 

 advanced. In the meantime he can prepare the ground and plant the cuttings, in a single row, 

 six inches apart if for a very close fence, otherwise ten inches will answer for ordinary farm pur- 

 poses; but in each case let only two shoots grow from each cutting until two years old. Cuas. 

 Downing. — Newburgh, N. Y. 



(J. G., Clark Co., Ohio.) Wash for Trees. — Soap suds make a very good wash for young fruit 

 trees. 



Top - Dressing. — Leaves make a good top-dressing, if mixed with some earth and lime and laid 

 in a heap until they are pretty well decomposed. Apply in the fall, or very early in the spring. 



Pears. — You will find the varieties you mention described in Downing'sof Thomas' pomological 

 works. None of them can be recommended for orchard planting. 



CimouLio. — My attention lias been attracted to Mr. Adair's article in the April number of your magazine, on the 

 Curculio and the mischief occasioned by the little " Tiirlc," and it occurs to me to inquire of you whether any one in 

 your region, or in the vicinity of Avon, has ever treated the olfactories of the Curculio to the perfume exhaled from the 

 water of the Sulphur Springs at Avon, by syringing the Plum tree with the water thereof as soon as the fruit sets, and 

 afterwards — and if so with what effect? 



Allowing the theory to be correct, that the Curculio can be kept at bay by nauseous etiluvia, is it not worth the trou- 

 ble of an experiment to see how efficacious it may prove of offering him a few doses of this, in your region, cheap 

 perfume. Perhaps I may have been anticipated by the observation of some of your friends residing at or near Avon, 

 as to the fact whether or not the Plum, and other smooth-slcinned fruits, where the atmosphere is partially saturated 

 with the exhalation from the Springs, escape the attacks of the Curculio. Natuaniel II. Bacon. — New Haven, Cann. 



We possefs no information on this subject. Will some of our Avon friends look into the matter 

 and let us hear from them ? 



JHotti'tuItural Sottttits, ^t. 



Hunt Botanical Garden. — A meeting of the trustees of the Hunt Botanical Garden was held 

 last evening, at the Athenaeum, corner of Atlantic and Clinton street, and the Chair was occupied 

 by John W Degrauw, Esq.. President of the Association. 



John W. Degrauw, Esq., who had been elected President of the Hunt Botanical Garden Asso- 

 ciation, addressed the meeting as follows: 



" Gentlemen — Before assuming the duties to which I have been elected by your partiality and choice, permit me to 

 ask ynur acceptance of my most grateful feelings for this manifestation of your confidence, and I foe) most fully sensi- 

 ble that without your most cordial co-operation and friendly aid, my efforts will be unavailing; and I trust that with 

 them, the enterprise in which we are engaged, and in which we have all shown so deep an interest, will reflect the 

 highest honors on its promoters, as well as aiJd to the enlargement of science, and to the beauty of our city. 



" This cnterprize is not one ofa day, a year, or a life-time — it is one that is to throw a brillianey into the far extended 

 futur It is one sacred to a science which has eng:igcil the attention of the most distinguished men in every age ; it 

 Is s;i<r.d in promoting the moat humanizing and kindly influences; and sacred in creating the most inspiring 

 that til" charms of I>eauty can shed around the heart. 



" %\' liile we yield to the emotions that are produced by the most distinguished liberality, and which has placed 



