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wane ; at dawn it is fading rapidly ; and by sunrise only a wilted, worthless wreck 

 remains." 



A. Ncxv Style of I'dnsy. 



The London Journal of Horticulture says: M. E. Benary, a horticulturist, at 

 Erfurt, announces a new Pansy, which has large flowers of a splendid ultra-marine 

 blue, with a well formed eye of very deep violet-purple. They are also of good 

 substance, have strong stalks and stand well above the leaves. M. Benary has 

 named it Viola tricolor, var. inaxima Emperor William, and states that the variety 

 reproduces itself with certainty from seed. 



A. I'oisoiious J'lant. 



A few years ago there was in the lloyal Botanical Gardens, at Kew, a specimen 

 of probably the most poisonous plant ever introduced into England. It was the 

 Jatropha urens, the properties of which are so noxious that its possession is posi- 

 tively dangerous. The ex-eurator of the gardens was one day reaching over it, 

 when its fine, bristly stings touched his wrist. The first sensation which he felt was 

 a numbness and swelling of the lips ; the action of the poison was on the heart, 

 circulation was stopped and he soon fell, unconscious ; the last thing he remembered 

 being cries of "run for the doctor." Either the doctor was skillful, or the dose of 

 poison injected not quite, though nearly, enough to cause death ; but afterwards the 

 young gardener, in whose house the plant was placed, got it thrust into a corner, 

 and would not come within arm's length of it. He watered the offender with a pot 

 having an extremely long spout. In a short time, however, the plant disappeared 

 altogether, and another specimen of the genus Jatropha, which was afterwards intro- 

 duced, vanished in the like mysterious manner. It was presumed that the attendants 

 were secretely determined that such plants should not be retained in the houses, to 

 cause the possibility of an accident such as that which happened to their curator. 



Fruit Notes. 



Destroying the Coddllny Motti\ Wortn. 



Dr. LeBaron says, in the Prairie Farmer, that half and probably more than half 

 the apple worms have escaped from the apples before the apples fall ; hence he thinks 

 the importance of picking up these apples or of allowing hogs to run in the orchard, 

 has been overestimated. As to another mode of destroying these worms, he says : 



"Soon after the young worms have entered the apple, which they generally do at 

 the calyx end, they begin to throw out their castings through the hole which they 

 made in entering. As this hole must be originally very small, it is evident that 

 they must enlarge it for this purpose. A portion of these castings adhere to the 

 rough and shriveled calyx, forming a rust-colored mass which can be easily seen 

 from the ground beneath. Some horticulturists, among whom we may mention Mr. 

 Oliver Chapin, of East Bloomfield, N. Y., and Mr. L. Barnes, of Bloomingdale, 

 Ills., have availed themselves of this circumstance for the purpose of removing the 

 wormy apples from the trees before the worms have escaped. Mr. Chapin's plan is 

 to beat oir the wormy fruit, but Mr. Barnes adopts the method of picking them off 

 by means of a wire hook attached to the end of a pole. These methods can be 

 usefully combined by first jarring or beating off those apples which readily fall, and 

 then going over the trees a second time with a pole and hook. The apples thus 

 removed should, of course, be fed to swine, or otherwise treated so as to destroy the 

 worms within. Too much value cannot be attached to these simple expedients, 

 which, in the case of a few choice trees, or even a small orchard, might almost be 

 made to supersede the necessity of any other treatment." 



