A Kentucky Subscriber -will find three several notices of the Hydraulic Ram in 

 vol. 7 of the Horticulturist, and drawings in vol. 2. Where there is sufficient povrer an 

 overshot, double-action water wheel, has the preference over a ram. 



(M. M.) It will be an improvement to your process in resisting the Apple borer, if 

 you cover the cloth which you wrap round the boll of the tree, on one side, with a mix- 

 ture of one ounce of grease to two pounds of rosin. The cloth is placed with the rosin- 

 side outward, and overlapping ; the adhesive qualities will keep it in its place, and assist 

 much in repelling the pest of our fruit trees. The process will be less troublesome than 

 looking up the grown enemy with knife and crooked wire. 



(H. C. M., Zanesville, Ohio.) TVe have received your interesting communication, 

 which has many truths in it to be hereafter elaborated. 



(M. J., Ohio.) Received and contents noted. 



Pleasures of Planting. — Where shall we find so pleasing an appreciation of the 

 pleasures that attest the lover of a garden, as in the following extract of a letter from the 

 venerable Dr. Fothergill : 



"PLanting and gardening supply a fund of entertainment, the most lasting and reasonable 

 of any occupation in this life, pleasures not to be purchased. The trees -which we ourselves 

 have planted, the fruits we have raised, the plants we have cultivated, seem to be like our 

 children, a kind of new creation. Their shade, their taste, their fragrance, and their beauties, 

 affect us with a richer repast than any other. What a pleasing scene lies open to a young 

 man of fortune devoted to such amusements ! Each succeeding year produces new shades, 

 other fruits, fresh beauties, and brings besides most certain profit. To behold the rising 

 groves, barrenness made fertile, our country improved, ourselves made useful and happy, and 

 posterity enriched ! I have seldom known a man possessed of a taste for such pleasures, who 

 was not at the same time temperate and virtuous." 



The Floral Fete at the London Crystal Palace in June last was probably the greatest 

 heretofore seen in Europe. Five thousand dollars were distributed in prizes. Of course 

 all the skilled gardeners of the kingdom rallied round the head of their order. Sir Joseph 

 Paxton, each vying to excel. In the fruit department, owing to a cold spring, there was 

 a disappointment. A great portion of the transept was devoted to Rhododendrons, 

 which it must have been well worth a voyage to see ; those who have seen even a com- 

 mon exhibition of these plants at Chiswick will understand us. 



Fruits in Wisconsin. — Mr. A. G. Hauford wrote us in June from Waukesha, Wis- 

 consin, but a gloomy report of the prospects of fruit in that region. The spring opened 

 unusually early and expectations were raised for a beautiful crop, but late frosts destroyed 

 much in the blossom; this was succeeded by severe frosts that cut ofi" the greater part of 

 what was left. Mr. II. reports very favorably of the Early Purple Guigne Cherry, as an 

 early and constant bearer. 



Lucy Fitch's Seedling Strawberry is declared by a competent witness who writes 

 from South Bend, Indiana, to be a four fold better bearer than lluvey's Seeding, Early 

 Scarlet, Burr's New Pine, or any other sort he has tried. If it suit your soil and climate, 

 well and good. 



Seventeen Year Locusts appeared in vast numbers in parts of Ohio in June 

 great damage. 



