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Lime anh Sulphuk for thk CniicuLio. — In the new 

 edition of Downing's Fruits and Fiuit Trees of America, 

 just published, it is stated that T. W. Luni.ow, Jr., of 

 Yonkers, N. Y., has been very successful in destroying the 

 plum curculio bj syringing the trees after the fall of the 

 blossoms, with a mixture of whitewash and flowers of 

 sulphur, in the proportion of eighteen double handfuls of 

 sulphur to a barrel of tolerablj thick whitewash, made of 

 unslacked lime. The sediment of this mixture will an- 

 swer for a second <ind third barrel, merely filled with wa- 

 ter and well stirred. Apply the mixture three times a 

 week for four weeks. 



The trees to which this mixture was applied, hare also 

 been, free from knots or black warts. 



A Rose on an Apple Trek. — A correspondent of the 

 Maine Farmer gives us an account of a natural curiosity 

 which he saw in the garden of Mr. Winslow Hall, of 

 letter H. Plantation, Aroostook on the 21st ult. T/us was 

 a full blown rose, upon an apple tree. The tree blossomed 

 at the usual time, and, when seen by the narrator, had 

 many apples upon it. The blossom was nearly two inches 

 across the surface, perfectly white, and resembled in all 

 respects the common white rose, having as many leaves, 

 and being as large and full otherwise. 



Large CuRRANXS.^The Deseret News of August 5, a 

 Mormon paper published at Great Salt Lake City, says : 

 " Br. L. C Hemeeway, of the 4th ward, presented us on 

 the 3d inst. with liberal specimens of the black, reddish, 

 and yellow varieties of what are called Mountain Cur- 

 rants. They were the largest, and finest flavored currants 

 we have ever seen ; some of them were larger than ounce 

 bullets. They were raised from sjed gathered on the 

 plains east of Laramie. ' 



To Kill Angle Worms. — Sow salt at the rate of seven 



bushels to the acre as soon as the frost is out of the ground 



in the spring, and, my word for it, the salt and worms will 



make a good dressing of manure. Twenty years ago my 



garden became so hard from the working of angle worms 



that I thciU:^ht I must abandon it ; but since the above 



application it has been free from worms, and as mellow as 



ground could be. S. N. Franklin. 



Ledyard, N. Y. 



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To Protect Cucumber Vines pkom Bugs. — A "far- 

 mer's wife" writes us that she has found the following an 

 efficacious method of protecting cucumber vines from 

 bugs : " Take a large barrel, and fill it half full of hen 

 droppings, and then fill it up with water. Let it stand 

 tUl well soaked. Then take a bunch of broom corn and 

 sprinkle the vines every few days." 



Prize Essays. — The Premium Essays will be found in 

 this number. The respective writers will please inform 

 BS what book or books they wish of the value of $1, and 

 they shall be immediately sent, prepaid, by mail. 



Next month we shall offer premiums for more Essays, 

 and hope our readers will name subjects. 



Book Clubs. — "We call attention to Mr. Dewey's ad- 

 vertisement relating to Book Clubs. Such organizations 

 are of great use to the young, especiallj. 



Haii.stokms in England — Hailstorms have been vn.u- 

 sually destructive the past season, not only in many parts 

 of this ci untry, but also in England. A correspondent of 

 the Mark Lane Exj.ress writes from Reading : " By this 

 storm two or three gentlemen have been completely 

 ruined." One poor fellow said, with tears in his eyes, 

 that "he was beggared, for all his barley was destroyed." 

 Another from Basingstoke states : " 1 am sorry to say I 

 never witnessed such destruction before in uiy life. Oa 

 Wednesday (five days after the storm) 1 saw 20 cart loads 

 of hailstones, all whole ; and I heard several people s;iy 

 that over 200 loads were floated down into a coruer near 

 Lord Ashburton's Park. Such a storm was never be- 

 fore witnessed." A third writes from Alesford : " On 

 the 15th (of August) I measured a drift of ice (I could not 

 call them hailstones) across the turnpike road, and found 

 it four feet m depth." A fourth, from Cirencester, says : 

 " There are many persons here that have lost the whole of 

 their crops, roots and all; and the ice is lying about the 

 fields now, (Tues lay) although the storm took place last 

 Friday." In Hampshire, the ice on the barley that was 

 uncut, was, in some places, four feet deep. 



Thick and Thin Seeding. — A correspondent of the 

 Mdrk Lane Express sowed " three acres of the very best 

 land" on his farm with wheat, using o: e and a half bush- 

 els of seed per acre. On ten acres adjoining he sowed 

 three bushels per acre (the usual quantity in his part of 

 England.) The result was that the thin seeding gave 20 

 bushels and the thick seeding 32 bushels per acre. 



Large Hail Stones. — Mr. John L. Tallman, of Tj- 

 cumseh, Mich., writes us that on the 31st of July that 

 Ticinity was visited with a hailstorm, which was very de- 

 structive to crops. " In some places the smallest hail- 

 stones were as large as a hen's egg, and from that up to 

 14^ inches in circumference." 



NotUes of NtSn Books, ^tn'obuals, 9ct. 



Thk FRurrs and FRurr TRKfs op .\mfkioa ; or the culture, prop- 

 aariition and manugement, in the gardi n and orchard, of frnit 

 tree* generally, with descriptions of all tlie flni'St varieiies of 

 fruit, native and foreign, cultivated in this country. By A. J. 

 Downing. Revised and corrected by Cuarlks Downing. New 

 York : Wiley & IIalstkd. 1857. 



" Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees" occupies the very 

 first rank among the numerous treatises on American Po- 

 mology. Its easy and graceful style ; the clear, concise, 

 and yet copious descriptions of fruit, together with the ad- 

 mirable remarks on the preparation of the soil, planting, 

 pruning, and general management of fruit trees, render 

 it one of the most interesting and valuable works ever 

 written on this subject. Since its appearance in 1845, 

 American Horticulture has advanced with gigantic strides. 

 An immense number of new and valuable varieties have 

 been added to our list of fruits, which it was desirable 

 should be noticed in this standard work. A new and en- 

 larged edition was much needed at the present time, and 

 no one was so well fitted for the task as the brother of the 

 lamented author. The work has appeared, and will be hail- 

 ed with pleasure by all fruit growers. It contains "GO pages, 

 or 166 pages more than the former edition. The clafsifi- 

 cation of fruits has been changed. In the former edition, va- 

 rieties were classed under the head of Summer, Autumn and 



