EDITOR'S TABLE. 



Apples of Westkun K"ew York. — Tlie wintei' Apples of 1854 have generally been very good 

 and choice. The country has been thoroughly canvassed for what are left up to this writing, 

 (April I6th,) and Roxhury Russets, the most plentiful, are taken readily at three dollars per bar- 

 rel. A dealer told me he was to pay one farmer $1200 for 400 barrels of them of his own raising. 

 Wheat at $2,50, the ruling price, cannot pay better. 



The Esopus Spitzenburgh, Baldwin, and Rhode Island Greening, have been good, but are taken 

 in the fall for shipment. The few left as sold by fruiterers, I have noticed to be very fair and 

 well flavored. 



The Canada Red and Northern Bpy have never been better. The last named I have seen 

 brought in from different sources, and they are not only choice but very beautiful. I have never 

 seen finer specimens than a parcel which a dealer obtained to retail from. They were enormous 

 in size, high colored, and as fre?h and juicy as any harvest Apple. I inquired of the growers of 

 them as to the fruitfulness of the tree, and one answered that it is only every other year that a 

 full crop can be expected ; others, that every year their trees bear. 



High culture is necessary, and the same care will give a greater crop on all other trees. One 

 person told me that he knew of a cultivator of the Spy who put on a plentiful top-dressing of sta- 

 ble manure, and the effect was that the next season his trees were loaded with high-colored and 

 large Apples, bending the branches to the ground. A large supjily I find are brought to market 

 every season, and this day the price asked by those who have them for sale, is eight dollars per 

 barrel, which is the only objection to be found to the Spy. J. H. "Watts. — Rochester, N, Y. 



A MODE OF REPELLING THE Apfle Tree Borer. — I havc Suffered from the effects of the "Apple 

 Borer," having lost some seventy beautiful trees during the space of three years. I made use of 

 all the preventives suggested by others that I could get hold of, but all to no purpose. I 

 came to the conclusion four years since that the tree must be protected by a covering in order to 

 prevent the little animal from making a deposit. Mj' process was this, and so far successful to 

 the extent of the covering. Early in May, which is the proper time for this region, I examined 

 every tree, and if nits or grubs were there, I followed them with a knife and removed them. I 

 lifted the earth from the collar or base of the tree to the depth of two or three inches, and made 

 use of worn wool bags, of little value, for wrappers, which, when cut into strips, are very con- 

 venient. I commenced two inches below the surface and wound the extent of two feet, giving 

 the tree two thicknesses of sacking and securing the same with slender twine. I then replaced 

 the earth and the work was done for the season. 



It is necessary to loosen the sacking or covering early in May every succeeding year and wrap 

 the tree again as above stated. "When the animal is prevented from piercing between " wind 

 and water," its lavoj-ite haunt, it examines for some vulnerable point, but his depredations above 

 the protection, with me, has been exceedingly rare, and when committed, easily detected. Should 

 it be necessarj-, it is an easy matter to wra^) the tree to and around the forks, as there is nothing 

 effectual short of a complete protection. 



Since pursuing the above course, I have not lost one tree that was not too far gone to recover, 

 and no new d< posits under the covering has come to my notice. "Wm. McKic. — Salem, N. Y. 



Effects of the "Winter in Oneida Ci>i:nty, N. Y. — Fruit is entirely cut off here, excepting 

 Apples, and. full one-half of those are killed. I could not find one Pear blossom-bud alive. 

 Grape vines in vinery are killed to the ground. They were covered with newspapers tied at 

 least six double, and eighteen inches of straw beside. Tiic wood of the vines was well ripened. 

 On the 6tli of February, the lowest I saw the thermometer was 28° below zero, at YAM.; early 

 morning it may have been lower. M. — Treidon Falls, N. Y. 



