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The person wlio used and recommended this remedy says : " The trees tliat 

 received the application ripened an abundant crop of as perfect and beautiful 

 plums as ever grew, while not a single plum was ripened on those trees to 

 which the M-ash was not applied." 



lie also recommends a little salt to be added to the mixture. 



It has been stated as an imjiortant fact, that plum-trees planted in such a 

 position that the fruit will hang over water, will never be stung by curculio; 

 60 that nothing is more eas\' than growing this delicious fruit wherever the 

 trees can be so planted. Dr. Uuderhill, of Croton Point A^ineyard notoriety, 

 states that he is never troubled, not liaving seen an insect upon one of 150 

 trees in six years. He formed an artificial pond, with banks constructed on 

 purpose to set the trees slanting over the water, lie gathers the fruit in a 

 boat. He has many of the best varieties of plums so planted, and never 

 saw liner fruit than he thus jiroduccs. It is an experiment that should be 

 tried by every man who has the necessary conveniences. The ravages of 

 the curculio have been so great for many years that we have had but few 

 plums, and those inferior a!id high priced, in this market. 



We have the following account from James Taylor, of St. Catherine's, 

 C. W., a few miles from Niagara Falls, of a pretty eflfectual remedy for the 

 great pest of the plum-grower — the curculio. He says : 



'• Our locality being much infested with the curculio, and observing in one 

 paper issue, last spring, Avliat had been pronounced by a Mr. Jos. H. 

 Mather, of Goshen, twenty miles southeast of the place where the writer 

 resided, an efi'ectual remedy against its ravages, allow me, for the benefit of 

 your readers, to state my experience of its efficacy. The proposed remedy 

 was a mixture of sulphur, lard, and Scotch snuff, to be rubbed freely on the 

 trunk and branches. This I applied according to the directions, and it is 

 true that I had a splendid crop of plums, some of the choicest varieties, 

 always most subject to the attacks of this insect, viz., the Bolmar, Huling's 

 Superb, etc., being perfectly loaded ; hut mark the result. On examining 

 my trees last fall, I found all t/iat T had applied the mixture to in a dying 

 state, and I have lost" them all, with the exception of one or two young trees. 

 The operation being rather a troublesome one, I did not apply it to as many 

 as I should otherwise have done, or I should have lost more. So much for 

 quack nostrums. The remedy proved worse than the disease. Perhaps my 

 experience will be useful to others." 



11. G. Pardee gives the following remedj- for the curculio, which has been 

 successfully practiced by a person of his 'actpiaintance. Take fresh cow- 

 droppings, and a little wood-ashes, some lime, and a little sulphur, and make 

 all into a thin decoction, and throw it over the trees with a hand-basin. 

 This lasts until it rains ; it is then put on again. A half pound oi suljiliur 

 to a half barrel is suthcicnt, and of the other substances it is not very im- 

 portant as to the proportions. 



Wo think the labor of this application vrould be too great. 



Dr. Trimble, of New Jersey, says that he has tried all sorts of offcusivo 



