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Honey PuDDma.— Ingredients : Honey, 

 one-half pound ; butter, six ounces ; bread 

 crumbs, one-fourth ounce ; eggs, eight. 

 Beat the h(mey and butter to a cream, 

 and add the bread crumbs ; beat all toge- 

 ther for ten minutes with the yolks of the 

 ^gs. Put into mould and boil for an 

 hour and a half. Serve with any nice 

 pudding sauce. 



Strawberries. — The Crescent straw- 

 berry proves to be the earliest here, mar- 

 velously productive, and meets with ready 

 sale at good prices when sold at home 

 markets. It is not firm enough for ship- 

 ment. It will thrive on ordinary soil 

 with ordinary culture. It is more pro- 

 fitable for near market than Wilson. 

 Sharpless is the largest strawberry of all ; 

 vigorous, and of good quality when at its 

 best. When over-ripe it loses character. 

 It ripens slowly and unevenly ; these are 

 its defects. It is not firm enough for ship- 

 ment. While it does not yield as many 

 quarts as Wilson or Crescent, it will be 

 profitable to have a portion of the market 

 plantation of this variety, as it brings a 

 fancy price anywhere. It is well to have 

 some firm berries like Wilson or Manches- 

 ter, as when a hurry comes these can be 

 neglected a few days without loss, while 

 the soft berries must be gathered and sold 

 without delay. — Charles A. Green, m 

 Country Gentleman. 



Arsenic for Canker Worms. — We 

 gave an account a few years since of the 

 successful use of Paris green by the late 

 Mr. Chapin, in his great apple orchard in 

 East Bloomfield, N. Y. , for the destruction 

 of the canker worm. A wagon tank, such 

 as threshers employ, was filled with the 

 usual mixture of Paris green and water, 

 and from it the infested trees were show- 

 ered by means of a forcing pump. We 

 observe by some late journals that the 

 aame method is employed by A. R. Whit- 

 ney, of Illinois, who has an orchard as 

 large as Mr. Chapin's. A visitor stated 

 that he found the foliage of the trees 

 clean, entire and healthy, while the apple 

 orchards around were desolated with the 

 canker worm. Mr. Chapin destroyed the 

 codlin moth by the grazing of sheep, and 

 we had occasion to observe the contrast 

 between the smooth fruit of this orchard 

 and the badly infested apples of a neigh- 



bor who took no care. — Gowntry Gentle- 

 man. 



Glucose Honey. — The Boston Journal 

 of Chemistry makes these queer revela- 

 tions about glucose honey and other con- 

 fections : — " Millions of pounds of glucose 

 are made every month. It is used mostly 

 as an adulterant in the manufacture of 

 table syrups, and in adulterating the dark, 

 moist sugars used largely by the poor. Its 

 next largest use is in the manufacture of 

 candies. All soft candies, waxes, taiOfies, 

 caramels, chocolates, etc., are made of 

 glucose. Children are, therefore, large 

 consumers of this substance ; the honey 

 bees also are fond of it, and wiU carry it 

 away by the ton if it is placed within 

 their reach. The honey made from it is 

 no better than the pure glucose, as it is 

 stowed away in the cells without change. 

 Human ingenuity, it is stated, has reached 

 the point of making honey and storing it 

 in the comb without the intervention of 

 the bee. By appropriate machinery a 

 nice-looking comb is made out of parafline, 

 and after the cells are filled with glucose 

 syrup, this fictitious ' honey ' is warranted 

 true white clover honey from Vermont. 



Bacteria and the Yellows. — Prof. 

 Burrill says that very recent examinations 

 of specimens of diseased peach trees sent 

 him from Michigan, where tliis malady 

 has prevailed, confirm his opinion that 

 the disease known as the yellows is caused 

 by bacteria. He finds the same disap- 

 pearance of stored starch in the peach 

 shoots as occurs in blighted apple and 

 pear trees, and at the same time numerous 

 bacteria. These minute organisms in the 

 pear are rounded oblong, and commonly 

 double-jointed ; but sometimes they are 

 single, and occasionally several joints are 

 found. Those found in the diseased peach 

 are long and slender, and consist of 

 several joints. Both may, however, be 

 mere modifications of the same organisms. 

 The pear bacteria are about one-thirty- 

 thonsandth of an inch cross diameter, 

 and one-half more in length. Those in 

 the peach are about twice as long. To 

 examine their shape, a microscope magni- 

 fying the diameter one thousand times is 

 requisite, and so small are they that a 

 thousand millions would be required to 

 fonn a solid mass as large as a pin's 

 head. 



