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HorticiiltTiral Notes. 



Jiipan I'eus. 



The Mobile Register says : " We claim the honor of having started the new interest 

 in the Japan peas, and we are really proud of it, for the Japan pea is, undoubtedly, 

 one of the best things climatically secured to the South. It is easily raised, will 

 grow on almost any character of soil, yields heavily, and is entirely exempt from 

 attack by either the pea or the bean weevil. As a food for man we think" it has no 

 equal in the pea or bean line, and it makes a stock feed almost equal to corn. Hogs 

 relish it and fatten upon it, and poultry of all kinds seem to want nothing better. 

 Sown thickly upon the land it makes the very best of hay, and a green-feed stock 

 will eat it in preference to anything else." 



Apple Tree Jiorers. 



A correspondent of the Rural New Yorker says, that he has prevented the attack 

 of apple tree borers by putting a bushel of tan bark around the stem of each tree. 

 The tan bark answers the doubl-i purpose of keeping out the borers and a mulch. 

 No weeds grow through it, and the writer states that he has never known a tree to be 

 attacked, with tan bark around it. 



J'reveiithtg Mot in Grnjjes. 



Dr. A. P. Wylie, of South Carolina, as stated in the Rural New Yorker, prevents 

 bundles of grapes from rotting by enclosing them in paper bags, pinned on, with a 

 pinch of sulphur in each. He thinks the preventive may be applied on a large scale. 



Jiiiy.s. 



Mr. Rufus Peet, of Wyoming county, N. Y., communicates the following remedy 

 for bugs upon vegetation : 



I have tried the following prescription against bugs, which has proveil efficacious 

 with me: Take fine dry dust from a common road, sift it through a fine riddle so as 

 to remove all stones and lumps, and apply freely with the hand when the dew is on 

 the plant. It was with mo a perfect success last year. No bug was seen upon squash, 

 melon, cucumber, or pumpkin. Let others try and report. 



A r>r>fltnlde Tree. 



W. H. Kagan has pears of the Flemish Beauty variety, grown by his father at 

 Fillmore, Putnam county, Indiana, wliich grew upon a tree that has for the last seven 

 years yielded fruit, the average sales of which amounted to two hundred and one 

 dollars per year, besides what was required for family use. — Northwestern Farmer. 



A.she-t /or Jlfvivhig Peach Trees. 



S. D. Pratt, of Penn Yan, N. Y., in an article to the Farmer^s Club, N. Y., upon his 

 experience with peach trees, says : 



Remembering Prof. Liebig's theory that, when a vegetable is burned, the part 

 which came from the air in the process of its growth returns to the atmosphere, and 

 the part which came from the ground is reduced to ashes, I came to the conclusion 

 that ashes would be beneficial when applied to the roots of the trees. The}^ were 

 standing in soil strongly inclining to clay, with a turf around them which had not 

 been removed for several years. After pruning them properly, removing every indi- 

 cation of worms, etc., and washing the body and branches with soap-suds, I began 

 operations below — first removing the turf about two feet around the tree, then with a 

 garden pick the ground was loosened from six to twelve inches in depth, taking care 

 not to injure the larger roots. Twenty or thirty quarts of loose dirt were removed, 

 leaving a large cavity, shaped like a saucer, with the tree standing in the center. 

 About one pint of unleached ashes was sprinkled about the tree, and upon this chip 



