Answer to Corkespondents. {P. A.) Bleeding of Vines. — The Tine often bleeds excessively 

 when pruned in an improper season, or when accidentally wounded ; Mr. Knight, in the Horti- 

 cultural Transactions, recommends, from practice, "four parts of scraped cheese, to be added 

 to one part of calcined oyster-shells, or other pure calcareous earth, and this composition to 

 be pressed strongly into the pores of the wood ; the sap will instantly cease to flow, so that 

 the largest branch may, at any season, be taken off with safety." 



The Smoke-house Apple has been twice described in the Horticulturist, which will account to 

 "B." for the non-appearance of his favor. 



( TI''. ). — A good liquid manure for watering plants will be found to be, mixing 12 gallons of 

 water with four pounds of the best guano, and allowing it to stand for twenty-four hours. 

 This will suit flowers in pots. The same guano will serve three times, each time being covered 

 with twelve gallons of water. 



[S., Illinois). — The "red" and "white Dutch" are considered, by many, superior currants 

 for the table, to the "cherry," "grape," "Victoria," S:c. 



{Curculio). — This vile insect has attacked the cheri-y in some places. 



{T. S.) The Box Tree. — In planting the tree box, use a half peck of chalk, broken up, and 

 freely mixed with the earth. It increases the rapidity of growth and the beauty of the foliage. 



[G. H. r.)— Your "Black Apple" is the Red Canada. 



A Beautiful Conceit. — Some author — we remember not who — informs us how we became 

 indebted for the red rose. They were all of a pure and spotless white when in Eden they first 

 spread out their leaves to the morning sunlight of creation. Eve, as she gazed upon the tint- 

 less gem, could not suppress her admiration of its beauty, but stooped down and imprinted a 

 warm kiss on its snowy bosom. The rose stole the scarlet tinge from her velvet lip, and yet 

 wears it. 



Wheat Cultivation. — Prof. Mapes, in a recent address at the Indiana State Fair, stated 

 that the wheat crops of Ohio had fallen from 35 to 15 bushels per acre. This statement is 

 denied to be true by the editor of the Ohio Farmer. He asserts that the average amount of 

 wheat raised per acre in Ohio is now greater than ever it was, and he gives statistics to prove 

 his assertion. 



Sundry Matters. — We have space left only to notice with commendation the new Patent 

 Office Report ; the Transactions of the JS'cw York Slate Agricultural Society, in one large vohimc; 

 and the Year Book of Agrictdture, by David M. Wells, issued in this city by Childs and Peter- 

 son. Report of the Pennsylvania Ilorticullural Society in our next. 



The Country Gentleman fills a niche in periodical literature of great importance. The respec- 

 tive publishers of the above journal and the Horticulturist have made arrangements to issue the 

 two for the ensuing year for three dollars. This will meet the wants of a large mass of sub- 

 scribers, who will thus obtain at a "club" pi'ice two works that enjoy an extensive popularity. 

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