Mrs. Lawrexce, of Ealing Park, Eugland, -well known for her liorticultural fetes 

 and stove cultivation, died in xiugust last. 



CuRcuLio. — It is stated that Mr. John Brush, of Brooklyn, N, Y., has saved the 

 plums on a number of trees, the present season, by binding bunches of tansy upon the 

 limbs, in several places. The fruit upon the ti-ees thus treated ripened to perfection, 

 ■w hilc that near by, not thus protected, was entirely destroyed by the insects. 



Try it by all means, and everything that "promises well." For ourselves, the only 

 plums saved this season from the arch destroyer have been a few sewed up in millinet ! 



Charcoal. — As an illustration of the sanitary powers of charcoal, and of the extraor- 

 dinary energy with which it acts upon the gases, thus furnishing a new power for 

 removing the agents of disease, &"., Dr. Stenhouse has exhibited in London, a machine 

 showing extraordinary deodorizing and disinfecting powers. An atmosphere rendered 

 highly oifensive by putrefactive decomposition going on within the chamber in which it is 

 confined, is drawn through charcoal filters, by means of a rotating fan machine, and is 

 passed into an apartment adjoining. Although this air is disgustingly foetid, it flows out 

 into the room perfectly free from smell. This experiment, though it exhibits no new 

 property of the charcoal, places the fact in a strong light, and may lead to most impor- 

 tant usefulness. 



The Lawton Blackberry. — The following testimony regarding this fruit is from a 

 New York paper, of the first week of September. Here is another fruit making its ap- 

 pearance in the market : 



" We have before us a specimen of the fifth week of the picking of these berries : and 

 Mr. Lawton states that he thinks they will hold out three weeks longer. At present 

 there is no sign of failure or diminution in size, which is certainly remarkable, and so is 

 the prolificness of the variety. The fruit is picked and sent in every day, and sold whole- 

 sale at one dollar a gallon, and retailed at $1,25, without half supplying the demand. 

 The fact is with this as with all other first-rate fruit, this market cannot easily be 

 overstocked." 



Pears and Locusts. — It is a curious ftict that old trees of the Butter pear, which pre- 

 vious to the last appearance of the locusts, had year after year produced worse and Avorse 

 fruit, until at last it was nothing but knots, are now returning to health and vigor : the 

 pears this season partake of their old character, though still inferior to those formerly 

 produced. We saw these trees dug around just previous to the last appearance of the 

 sevonteen-year locusts, and witnessed the fact that the roots were infested with thousands 

 of these insects approaching their perfect state ; they were hanging to the rootlets to 

 which they had attached themselves as thick as sucking-pigs, and no doubt took from the 

 tree the nourishment intended for itself. Here is a suggestive fact. As the locusts came 

 up, every effort was used to destroy them, as well as those which flew from neighboring 

 gardens, in order to prevent similar future depredations, AVe might wish that this dis- 

 covery by a lady of Germantown, Miss Margaretta Morris, an enthusiastic and discrimina- 

 ting naturalist, should bo turned to practical account. No doubt the larvje are now 

 attacking again the roots of millions of fruit trees, which will depreciate till they arc 

 liberated from these merciless suckers. 



