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Falls, there was no curculio to disturb tlie plum, and we grew great crops, 

 and sometimes nearly all on a tree rotted, almost all at once. 



Geisharsi's Compouiid for Insects. — P. B. Mead (editor of the Horticul- 

 turist) said that he has tried the above compound upon several kinds of in- 

 sects, and found it sure death to all he had applied it upon. The objection 

 to it is its higli price— too high for common use ; if it would rid us of the 

 curculio, it would make the ])lums too costly. 



John G. Beegen — It is a fact that we have a prospect this year of a larger 

 crop of plums than we have had in many years, and therefore persons 

 should be careful of their hasty conclusions about this or that nostrum 

 driving them off. 



Mr. Mead — The preparation I mentioned, dissolved in water and used as 

 a syringe upon plum-trees, had the eftcct to drive off the curculio, even upon 

 one side of a tree, while the other was still infested. 



liemedy for liose-Shtgs. — Geo. II. IIite — I have found an effectual rem- 

 edy against the depredations of these pests, in sifting dry dust upon the 

 bushes. It is just as good as snuff, or any other bug-powder. Of course, it 

 wants frequent renewal. 



Barh-Lice. — Andrew S. Fuller — If a tree is properly cultivated, it will 

 grow 60 vigorously that it will outgrow all bad effects from attacks of plant- 

 lice. 



Worms Destroying Gooseberry Bushes. — R. Dixie, of Painesville, Ohio, 

 incjuires for a remedy for a pest upon his gooseberry and currant bushes, 

 lie says " they have been stripped of their leaves entirely, in one summer, by 

 hosts of green caterpillars or worms about an inch in length — a number 

 of broods during the season. What shall we do to get rid of the pests? I 

 have used lime in jiowder, and dry unleached ashes, without any apparent 

 beneficial effect." 



Solon Rodinson — I would try the new preparation of "attenuated coal- 

 tar," which we have had exhibited here in the form of a dry powder. So 

 far as "I have been able to try it, I have found it particularly offensive to 

 all insects. 



A. B. Dickinson — If soft soap is placed in the crotch of a tree, and left to 

 work down by the rain, it will keep off all insects, even the curculio. Many 

 insects are kept away by f)ffensive smells, which do not kill them. Smoke, 

 for instance, keeps off niany insects. 



J^ests of Grapevines and other Plants. — Dr. Tuimblt; — Here is a specimen 

 of the insect that curls the graiie-leaf. Spring is the time to look after them, 

 and pick them off by hand and destroy them, or they will destroy the vines. 

 Here is anotlier curious insect that infests the currant bushes. It is what wo 

 call lice, and these lice furnish food for a colony of ants, by their exudation 

 of a sort of sweet substance. Here is the worm that curls the currant-leaf; 

 and here is another curious insect that binds itself up in a web and a leaf, 

 and what is remarkable, this insect is itself full of otlier insects — iiarasites 

 that live upon, and in a great measure destroy it. I wish that some para- 



