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buires " if any one can tell him whether the ground nut that grows about 

 old neglected fields, along decayed logs or old decaying fences, or on the 

 borders of wood tracts, can be cultivated." It is commonly about the size 

 of a nutmeg, but round, the outside black; when roasted, the inside is 

 •white and mealy, and resembles a boiled chestnut, but more savory. The 

 plant shoots up a little vine, which quirls round a weed or hazel, or what- 

 ever it may get hold of, and reaches up, in its growth, a foot and a half or 

 two feet ; has a near resemblance to what is called cornbind. 



Andrew S. Fuller. — This plant is the Apios tuberosum, and it can and 

 should be cultivated. I have it growing in my garden, and it does well. I 

 grew mine from the seed, and have tubers near an inch in diameter. I was 

 attracted to it by reading of it in Eaton and Wright's old work on botany, 

 which recommended it highly as a much neglected American plant. 



Solon Robinson. — I recommend those who try its cultivation, to follow 

 nature as tear as may be, and use wood, mold leaves, and rotten wood for 

 manure. 



CURCULIO REMEDY. 



Judge Meigs. — Here is an article that gives a recipe for keeping off cur- 

 culio : One pound of whale oil soap, four ounces of sulphur, mixed in 

 twelve gallons of water ; a half peek of lime in four gallons of water; pour 

 off the clear water after the lime is dissolved, and add it to the other water, 

 adding four gallons of strong tobacco water. Apply the mixture with a 

 syringe. 



Henry Steele, Jersey City, said that he had prevented curculio by 

 the use of black soap from the tallow chandlers, dissolved in water, a^d 

 much diluted, with which the trees are syringed directly after the blos- 

 soms fall, after a rain, and repeated, if necessary, in consequence of 

 being washed off. 



R. G. Pardee. — A person present assures me that a neighbor of his 

 yarded his hogs around his plum trees, and that saved them from the cur- 

 culio. Mr. Pardee said that he thought that fresh cow or pig manure, dis- 

 solved, and the water sprinkled over plum trees, would prevent curculio. 

 They dislike any strong smelling substances. 



Wm. Lawton. — You may apply cow or pig manure raw to all fruits and 

 berries, but not horse manure ; that never should be used fresh — make \% 

 first into compost. 



NEW BEE HIVE. 



E. W. Phelps exhibited his plan of bee hive, the principal feature of 

 which is, that the comb is fastened to slats in the hive, so as to take out 

 any one frame and sheet of comb without disturbing any other part of the 

 comb. Old comb can also be taken out of any part of the hive. The cost 

 of a hive is about $3.50. One hive in a room in this city made 60 pounds 

 of fine honey one season. This hive differs from other slat hives in this, 

 that the frames are in sections s-o as to divide a sheet of comb into small 

 squares. He also exhibited a very ingenious protection against bee-moths. 



