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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



In a review of a book on the Vine, the Gardener's 

 Chronicle says that vineries can be erected so 

 cheaply that out-door culture has ceased to be a 

 subject of any importance. 



In a report of the British Entomological Society 

 it is mentioned incidentally that three years ago 

 multitudes of the oak-gall apple were found around 

 London, but that the tomtits found out that the 

 galls contained a delicious morsel and have attacked 

 them so successfully that this year not one is to be 

 found. 



In the "Answers to Correspondents" in the 

 Journal of Horticulture, a gardener, who has 

 been through a series of trials in the failure of 

 crops, &c, is advised to go and see Lessing's 

 "Martyrdom of John Huss," which is now in 

 London, but which many of our readers will re- 

 member to have seen at the Dusseldorf Gallery in 

 New York. 



Sib Joseph Paxton keeps all his Geraniums 

 which he uses for bedding out at Sydenham in the 

 6ame pots year after year. The pots are planted 

 with them, housed with them, wintered and set 

 out with them ; and in this way they are in bloom 

 a month in advance of the London season. D. 

 Beaton, the editor of the Journal of Horticulture 

 and Cottage Gardener, thinks that this system will 

 soon be universally adopted. 



In a notice of the Ailanthus silk-worm, the 

 Gardeners Chronicle says considerable attention 

 has lately been directed to the breeding of this 

 worm, or Ailanticulture, as it is now called, both 

 in this country and in France. It is a subject well 

 worthy of attention, for if the worm is as hardy 

 and the product as useful as the statements made 

 concerning them seem to indicate, this branch of 

 industry may do something to fill up the fearful 

 void caused by a deficient supply of cotton. 



Me. Cuthill, of Camberwell, has been remarka- 

 bly successful in the cultivation of asparagus. His 

 plan is given in the Gardener's Chronicle. The 

 plants were set out one foot apart in the rows, and 

 the latter were made four feet asunder, with a row 

 of seakale in the center. When planted, the ground 

 was merely trenched, manure being dug in after- 

 ward. Every year the rows have had good soakings 

 of manure water in the spring and also when dry in 

 the summer. Plenty of salt has also been put on 

 in March, and the soil drawn up with a hoe, so as 

 to cover the asparagus to the depth of about four 

 inches. The roots being so near the surface, they 

 get well ripened, and are therefore better able to 

 bear the changes of weather. 



Wm. Thomson, the well-known gardener at Dal- 

 keith, Scotland, has written "A Practical Treatise 

 on the Cultivation of the Grape Vine." It is pub- 

 lished by the Blackwoods. 



The Scottish Farmer says that the best cure fbr 

 slugs and snails in a garden is a pair of Spangled 

 Hamberghs, as they neither scrape nor burrow, 

 and, in addition, are very beautiful. A brood of 

 ducklings will answer the same purpose. 



A correspondent of the Gardeners' Chronicle, 

 who has lately returned from the East, says that 

 he measured eight of the oldest Cedars of Leba- 

 non, the smallest of which was twenty-one feet in 

 girth, and the largest forty feet. He thinks that 

 the Cedar and the Deodar are the same tree. 



The Gardeners' Chronicle states that Attacus 

 Ricine, the Eria silkworm, is reared over a great 

 part of Hindoostan, and furnishes four or five crops 

 in the year. The produce of this worm, which 

 feeds on the castor-oil plant, gives a cloth of seem- 

 ingly loose texture but|of incredible durability — the 

 life of one person, it is stated, being seldom suf 

 cient to wear out a garment made of it 



Dr. Lindley, the distinguished editor of the 

 Gardeners' Chronicle, in a review of a work on the 

 " Culture of Cotton," by Dr. Wright, says : " No 

 man acquainted with the progress of agriculture, 

 or the possible results of scientific cultivation, has 

 ever doubted that as fine cotton as that called Sea 

 Island may be grown in any climate warm enough 

 and damp enough to suit its constitution. The 

 most ill-informed observer who now visits the In- 

 ternational Exhibition, must be convinced of this 

 fact. The cotton of Queensland and New South 

 Wales, both new cotton countries, is unsurpassable. 



Death op a Horticulturist. — The Gardeners' 

 Monthly notices tiie death of B. A. Faiinestock, 

 one of the Vice Presidents of the Pennsylvania 

 Horticultural Society. It says: "His collection 

 of rare plants was probably the most valuable in 

 the Union, and his liberality in allowing the friends 

 of horticulture to see his collections, frequently af- 

 forded us opportunities of seeing extremely rare 

 and valuable plants we should otherwise know only 

 by reputation as existing in the princely gardens of 

 Europe." 



The Clarke Raspberry. — The Horticulturist 

 speaks highly of, a new seedling raspberry origina- 

 ted by Mr. Clarke, of New Haven, Ct. It is a 

 strong grower and bears abundantly. The berry is 

 large, red, sweet and high-flavored. 



