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stroyed. How far the mischief may reach,! cannot say ; tlie month of May 

 will tell the damage; that it is extensive, there is no doubt, but at least 

 $100,000 will not pay it. 1 have heard from one hundred miles South — the 

 ratlans and cane seed are all killed, so that sugar ])Ianters and orange grow- 

 ers share alike. St. x\ugustine was rising in wealth, and a stir of iniprove- 

 inent was visible, but I fear that this will be a severe check to improvement. 

 Groves that readily commanded l<2000 to 3000, are now not worth a third of 

 the value. On tiie 'ZSih January, the thermometer stood at 72; on the 8th 

 February, only 8 above zero. Do you furnish greater extremes at New 

 York? There are a few specimens of hemieciiien agave here, but they vvoidd 

 not stand the low temperature, they were killed. I have not yet heard 

 whether this cold blast extended to latitude 26. I hope, for Dr. Perrine's 

 sake, not; his statement of the climate of Augustine is very correct. I have 

 not yet received the New York Farmer for February ; will you see that it is 

 forwarded to me. — JV. Y. Farmer. 



Preventive for the Turnip Fly.— On the 12th and 14th April, 1834, early 

 eabbarres and radishes were sown in drills in groimd newly dug, and covered 

 immediately by these millinett boxes, of which I have about sixty, but used 

 only ten or twelve for this purpose, together with four hand glasses or boxes 

 used for raising early melons and cucumbers — these boxes are like hot-bed 

 frames in miniatm-e, and contain four small panes of glass each. The plants 

 came up and prospered etjually well in each, or if there was any advantage, 

 it was with those under the millinett. No flea or bug was seen, and the box- 

 es were kept on until the plants were thinned, and the leid"so far advanced 

 as to be out of the power of the insect. On the fifth of May, winter cabba- 

 ges, savoys, and cape brocoli were sown, and treated in the same way, and 

 with equal success. In both cases the bug did attack the plants after the 

 covers were removed, but without any injurious effect. In the last case no 

 hand glasses were used, and only ten millinett boxes, twelve inches square 

 each, under which twice as many plants were raised as were wanted here, 

 though no account of the number was kept. — JV. Y. Farmer. 



Peach Trees killed hy the Winter. — The cultivatoi-s of the peach tree in 

 New Jersey — where the business is prosecuted on a very extended scale — 

 have suffered great loss by the severe weather of the late winter. The fol- 

 lowing paragra[)h is from the Woodbury, N. J., paper: 



"Since our last we learn, from good authority, that in addition to the loss 

 of the peach crop, both the bearing and the nursery trees are destroyed. It 

 is supposed they were killed by the severe frost on the night of the 20th 

 September last. It will require five years time to bring the peach croj) to 

 the same perfection it was last summer." 



In the vicinity of Baltimore, we hear, the most extensive peach orchards 

 will yield no fruit the coming season, in consequence of the frost. — Farmer 

 and Gardener. 



Flowers and JVative Plants that hloom in March, in Charleston, S. C.—Our 

 season has been unusually backward, and tnany native plants that commonly 

 bloom in March have, as yet, scarcely made their appearance. We have 

 noticed around our city the Cercis canadensis and the Acer rubrum, in full 

 flower. The Chaptalia integrifolia, and three species of our native Violet — 

 the Viola cuculata, villosa and primulifolia, and a Syngenesoiis plant, Gym- 

 nostyles stolonifera, growing sparingly at Hampstead, in the vicinity of 

 Charleston. We have also observed the common Chickweed, Alune [?] me- 

 dea, and the Gratiola virginica, and in our gardens, the Tulips, Ranuncu- 

 lus' Hyacinths, Stocks and Wall Flowers, Narcissus, &c. &c., have been 

 very ornamental^ though less so than in other years. — Southern Agriculturist. 



