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£^ditorial JVbtlces. 



I believe, of salt, lime and ashes, around a four j^ear old pear tree. It. has made a 

 very thrifty growth, and the leaves are all free from blight or spot, and have a very 

 glossy, healthy look ; while others of the same lot, manured with barnyard manure, 

 have grown but little, and the foliage is spotted and dull. Now, if no ill effect may 

 be attributed to the barnyard manure, it would seem that the difference in these 

 trees was owing to the salt." 



Killing Cut Worms. 



St. Joseph, Michigan, is again the theatre of another wonderful discovery in the 

 ■way of destruction to insect enemies. It will be remembered that last year Mr. 

 Ransom discovered the chip trap for catching curculios. Now Mr. Boynton has dis- 

 covered a method of trapping cut worms by the thousand. It comes about in this 

 wise : In a field of tomatoes he was much troubled with the worms destroying the 

 plants. Thinking they might be baited, he cut some green clover, wadded it up into 

 small balls and distributed among the hills of tomatoes, and found that the worms 

 would collect about them, eat and go into the ground near them. In this way he 

 took from the locality of these balls the numbers of 37, 68, 70 and 82. He has 

 experimented with various poisons mixed with the clover to destroy them, and at last 

 took boiling water, pouring it over and about these wads, in this way destroying 

 15,000 in a single day. — Prairie Farmer. 



A Jtetnnrknble Vine. 



Mr. L. A. Hardee, of Honey Moon, Florida, tells the following tall story about a 

 vine of his : In June of 1867, I layered a few vines of the Scuppernong in a lot I 

 owned in Jacksonville. In July, of the same year, I sold this lot, reserving these 

 vines. In the fall of 1867, I planted these vines, one of which was near the well; 

 this vine covers a lattice work 54x64, and will bear this season 100 bushels, I 

 think." 



Editorial Notices. 



Delays in Cort'esjiondencc. 



As usual, during the months of Janu- 

 ary and February, the mails of the respec- 

 tive Publishers are so large, and the rush 

 of subscriptions so great, that it is almost 

 impossible to get prompt answers to let- 

 ters, or inquiries attended to with celer- 

 itity. Subscribers must not suppose that, 

 because of these necessary and unavoida- 

 ble delays, any one is intentionally neg- 

 lecting them. Nearly every large Pub- 

 lishing house at that time often gets days 

 behind time in the mere entering and 

 posting of their letters. 



Death of Jjiither Tucker. 



The sad news respecting the death of 

 Luther Tucker, at Albany, N. Y., recalls 



to mind one circumstance which the Press 

 has failed to notice. Besides his connec- 

 tion with the Ge?iesee Farmer, The Culti- 

 vator and Country Gentleman., he was the 

 founder and first publisher of The Horti- 

 culturist. It is true that in familiar his- 

 tory The Horticulturist has been frequent- 

 ly referred to as " Doioning''s Horticultur- 

 ist,^^ and entire credit given him for its 

 origination and possession of the name, 

 and its publication. The facts are other- 

 wise. Mr. Downing was merely the ed- 

 itor. Mr. Tucker, as publisher and pro- 

 prietor, started it, engaged Mr. Downing 

 as editor, paid him a stated salary to 

 write for it, which continued until 1852, 

 wheu, immediately following Mr. Down- 



