56 Horticultural ^Yotes. 



T>vstro>/in{/ Garden Moles. 



A. S. Baldwin, of Connecticut, destroys this pest of the garden with arsenic and 

 Indian meal. One tablespoonful of arsenic is mixed with four times as much meal, 

 with flour and water sufficient to make a stiff paste or dough. This is made into 

 pills the size of a small chestnut. Small holes are made in the main runway with a 

 small round stick, and the pills dropped in. 



" ferpetunl. Smniner " — A December feitcli. 



The Santa Cruz (Cal.) Sentinel, of December 7th, says: "How pleasant it is to 

 go into the orchards and vineyards this 7th day of December, and find the choicest 

 varieties of fruits still clinging to the tree and vine, and still pleasanter to Know that 

 this is a land of perpetual summer, wherein one may live and enjoy life without expe- 

 riencinfi^ the dreaded winters, so many of us have been familiar with in Eastern homes, 

 but to which he have bid farewell forever. 



B. Cahoon, near Soquel, six miles from Santa Cruz, brought to our office this 

 morning, a choice variety of clingstone peaches, quite as delicious as any of the cling 

 variety we ever tasted. The peach was grown from a seedling, and is the lastest 

 variety known ; a fine flavored peach that matures in December will be quite an acces- 

 sion to the nurseries of this coast. The sample was plucked December 2d. 



Tlie Everlastiny JRahhit, ' 



The season now is, when the rabbit comes in for a share of the tree grower's atten- 

 tion. Dr. Howsley, of Leavenworth, Kan., says, for several years he has used with the 

 most satisfactory results, a white-wash, composed of fresh slacked lime and soft soap, 

 brought to the consistency of ordinary paint, with common flour paste added to make 

 it adhesive. This composition, applied with a common paint brush has, with me, 

 always been effectual. 



Sen Davis and liome Iteauty. 



At a meeting of the Alton, Illinois Horticultural Society, Mr. Starr said high 

 prices were now paid in the St. Louis market for Ben Davis and Rome Beauty to 

 ship south, that these two apples are in special demand for the New Orleans market. 

 In the estimation of Mr. Long, Ben Davis stands first. Rome Beauty is also a 

 favorite with him. 



Wisconsin Cranherry Tjands. 



A New Jersey cranberry grower with other parties, have purchased 3,000 acres 

 marsh land in Wisconsin, for the purpose of growing the cranberry. Wisconsin is 

 becoming famous for her hop yards and cranberry fields. But a few years since these 

 marsh lands, now so eagerly sought, were regarded of little or no value, or conse- 

 quence, beyond what they might have possessed to help hold the world together. 



Fabulotis Cranherry Crop. 



The Maine Farmer is responsible for the following : Mr. Clark Stanley, of Porter, 

 has raised a crop of cranberries this year that excels anything of the kind that we 

 have ever seen. He picked this season from a patch of ground that was sixteen feet 

 square, seven bushels of nice cranberries, and there is, at least, another bushel on 

 the vines, that he cannot gather at present for the water. These vines grow partly 

 on ground that has been ploughed, with no cultivation whatever. They are of the 

 Bell variety. 



