THE CANADIAN HORTIOULTfJEIST. 



runs to yellow-fleshed peaches, hence 

 E-eeve's Favourite, Crawford's Late and 

 Siyiock take the first places for canning. 

 While this may be true of canning, 

 your Editor is credibly informed that 

 for drying the white-fleshed peaches 

 are all the rage, and that the drying 

 establishments pay more for white 

 peaches than for the yellow. 



HOW TO DESTROY THE CABBAGE 

 WORM. 



A correspondent of the Fruit Re- 

 corder writing from Port Huron, 

 Michigan, says that he commenced a 

 series of expeiiments for the purpose 

 of discovering something that would 

 kill the worms and yet not be poison- 

 ous to human beings, and finally found 

 that a solution of common alum made 

 by dissolving one pound of alum in 

 three gallons of rain water would kill 

 the worms. 



His mode of proceeding was to dis- 

 solve the alum in a small quantity of 

 water by heating the water, and then 

 add sufficient water to make the whole 

 three gallons. When this was cold he 

 put it into a common watering pot 

 having a rose sj)out, and sprinkled his 

 cabbage and cauliflower plants, keeping 

 up this sprinkling as hmg as any of the 

 insects were about, from the time that 

 the white butterfly began to lay her 

 eggs. He says that he watered them 

 almost every evening, and thus kept his 

 cabbage and cauliflower perfectly clean. 



He also tried the alum solution on 

 his currant bushes and with equally 

 successful results, and recommends it 

 for washing the trunks of young fruit 

 trees, for the reason that it is a cheap, 

 efiectual and non-poisonous insecticide, 

 acting instantaneously on the worm or 

 caterpillar by means of its astringency 

 and so contracting their tissues that 

 they cannot breathe. 



If any of the readei-s of the Canadian 



Horticulturist should give this simple 

 method a trial they will confer a favor 

 on others by giving the results of their 

 experience. 



GRAPES UNDER GLASS. 



It is not so difficult a matter to grow 

 grapes under glass as many seem to 

 imagine. The writer recently visited 

 the cold grapery of S. D. Woodrufi", 

 Esq., St. Catharines, where the grapes 

 were yet hanging on the vines in great 

 profusion, beautifully ripened. Besides 

 the splendid bunches of White Syrian 

 and Black Hamburg, so frequently to 

 be found in such houses, were some tine 

 clusters of Canon Hall Muscat, the first 

 that we have ever seen growing in On- 

 tario. These grapes are all grown under 

 Mr. Woodruff"s personal supervision, 

 without the intervention of a profes- 

 sional gardener ; and the question na- 

 turally arises, why is it that there are 

 so few gentlemen who undertake the 

 culture of grapes under glass. It seems 

 to be the general opinion that no one 

 can grow these grapes but a profess- 

 sional ; this is evidently not the case, 

 as Mr. WoodruiF has so abundantly 

 demonstrated. A little application on 

 the part of any gentleman to this matter 

 will enable him to give such directions 

 to his man-of-all-work as will result in 

 a fine supply of these delicious grapes. 



Wintering Cabbage. — We know of no 

 better way to preserve cabbages through 

 the winter than to plant or set them up 

 in rows as they grow — that is, with the 

 roots down — fill in with soil pretty freely, 

 then make a covering by planting two 

 posts where there is a fence to rest on, or 

 four where there is not, allowing for a 

 pitch to carry off the water ; lay bean 

 poles opposite the way of the pitch and 

 cover with corn-fodder or straw or boards. 

 In using through the winter avoid as 

 much as possible the sun side and close 

 up again. We have not found setting the 

 cabbage upside down in the rows, as some 

 do, of any advantage. — Rural New Yorker. 



