3o8 Notes and Gleanings. 



Europe, the weather suitable for applying sulphur, the cost of applying it, with a 

 muhitude of useful hints and suggestions. 



The unhappy experience of the French growers has enabled them to lay down 

 definite rules for sulphuring vines, which Mr. Flagg gives, with instructive com- 

 ments, reducing their directions to the simple maxim, " Sulphur your vines as 

 early as the disease appears, and as often as it reappears." 



It is well settled, so far as anything in vegetable physiology can be settled, 

 that sulphur, whether acting per se, or slowly oxidizing in the air and forming 

 sulpluirous acid, is a direct and specific remedy for mildew. It kills the fungus 

 Vv'herever it touches it, and perhaps even where its vapor extends ; and it only 

 remains for us in this country (if we adopt Mr. Flagg's melancholy views) to 

 learn the best method of sulphurizing our vines. No situation, no exposui-e, 

 the author thinks, can insure us from the attacks and ravages of the oidium. 

 If not this year, then next ; if not very bad now, then worse hereafter. It at- 

 tacks the Delaware every season with more or less virulence, and is fast getting 

 a strong hold on what we call our most hardy kinds. Mr. Flagg has succeeded 

 perfectly in curing with sulphur a diseased Catawba vineyard ; and all we can 

 add to what we have said is, that if we must fight, we should now be making 

 preparations to meet the enemy; and our readers cannot do better — if they 

 care for the future of their vines — than to take counsel of Mr. Flagg's very 

 readable book. 



We notice only one striking error, viz., where the value of the French gramme 

 is given as twenty-three grains. It should be fifteen and one half. 



We take this opportunity of again calling attention to Mr. Flagg's work on the 

 Vineyards of Europe, a book not so well known as it should be, and one we can 

 safely commend to all who are lukewarm in the matter of grape culture, or who 

 doubt that we shall some not very distant day rival Europe in the production of 

 wine. M. 



Obituary. — Mr. Seth Boyden, the originator of the Agriculturist, Boyden's 

 No. 20, Green Prolific, and Boyden's No. 30 strawberries, died a short time since 

 at his home in Chnton Township, Essex Co., N. J. He was a quiet, unobtru- 

 sive, gentle-hearted man, but with such force of brain, such endurance, ingenuity, 

 and marvellous constructive skill, that, in spite of himself, he made the world his 

 debtor, not only for his new fruits, but for many valuable mechanical inventions. 

 Young-hearted, simple, and unpretending to the last, with God's blessing he 

 carried his eighty-two years of noble life gracefully and well unto the end. 



Hearth and Hoine. 



