14 Look to your Peach Trees. [July, 



have been well rewarded by the change. The native grape, then, 

 is the only one which will be worthy of general culture. 



To prepare the ground lor cultivation, let a trench be dug about 

 18 inches deep, and from 30 to 40 inches wide. If the soil is not 

 rich, mix with it freely any organic material, bones, rich loam, and 

 decomposing vegetables. In the trench plant the roots from 6 to 

 8 feet apart. Generally in a yard in the rear of a dwelling, a 

 single vine by proper management will produce as much as two 

 or three which are within 2 or 3 feet of each other. The first 

 and great requisite of success is a plenty of nutriment; and it so 

 happens that the vine bears high culture with great advantage. 

 Hence manure from the cow stable, blood and offal of all kinds, 

 may be used freely without danger of over stimulating the plant. 



When the American grape is selected, as the Isabella, it is not 

 necessary to resort to severe trimming as is advised by European 

 culturists. There is far more vigor, and our climate is better, and 

 ten feet of vine may stand where one is allowed in foreign culti- 

 vation. 



The object of the above desultory remarks are intended merely 

 as an inducement for the more general cultivation of the vine in 

 town and country. We have not aimed at giving special rules of 

 culture. Many excellent treatises have been written upon the 

 subject, all of which are within the reach of most persons. To 

 them we would refer for the minute and special directions for the 

 proper management of a vineyard, or a single vine trained to a 

 wall in the rear of a dwelling. We shall, however, notice a work 

 in another place which we have before recommended to our read- 

 ers, and which describes in detail a novel method of cultivation, 

 which has been attended with signal success. 



LOOK TO YOUR PEACH TREES. 



About the 10th of .luly, the crysalis of the iEgeria and that of 

 another insect, also a borer, will be found at the base of the tree, 

 enveloped in a casing of saw dust, which it has thrown out in its 

 progress of excavation. In some instances, the pupa appears as 

 early as the first of July, and will then be found in its envelope 

 or porele. The pupa are yellowish and quite beautiful, but they 

 are of different size and markings. Leaving their description to 

 another time and occasion, we have but little more to say than 

 this, that every peach tree ought at this period (July) to be care- 

 fully examined by removing all the dirt from the base of the tree, 



