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the ground, turpentine may be poured on their nests. 

 The book was sent some time ago. 



VlR. r.niToR : — As one of your subscribers, I tal^e tbe 

 librrty of asking you to give in your paper, directions for 

 raising tulips from tho seed, and the best mode of manaf^ing 

 them from year to year, till lliey flovier. If convenient, 

 please also to give a description of Fortune^s New Yellow 

 Jios: ■ and tho same as regards the Liliiim laiicifolium, in 

 two or ttiree Oi jcs nr.ps* I'arieties. By so doing, you will 

 much oblige E. P. — Portiana, Me., J«;.c, 1351. 



To raise Tulips from seed, let it ripen well on the 

 flower stem, the capsules should be quite brown and 

 ready to let the seeds fall. Sow immediately in 

 light soil, covering half an inch deep, or put in sand 

 and keep till spring and then sow. After growing 

 a couple of yeans in the seed bed, the young bulbs 

 should be transplanted into the beds where they will 

 bloom, at the fourth or fifth year of their ago or the 

 second after transplanting. The soil at all times 

 should be light, having a large admixture of sand 

 and also be deep and rich, and clear of weeds. 



Fortune's JS'eiv Yclloiv Rose has not bloomed with 

 us yet. We have plants of it however, and we think 

 it must be very much like the Eanksias. His five 

 colored rose has bloomed well with us this season 

 and proves an acquisition. It is distinctly stripid 

 like a carnation. 



Japan Lilies. — TVie Lilivm lancifoUum album is 

 pure snowy white, the punclatum is white with deli- 

 cate rosy spots, and the ruhrmn or speciosum has partly 

 a white and partly deep rose colored ground, covered 

 with projecting crimson dots. 



This is the most showy of them all. We have 

 at this moment a superb show of them all in the 

 house, in pots, but they succeed v/cU in the open 

 ground with the same culture as other lilies. An 

 interesting article will be found in Vol. 9, on these 

 flowers. 



Mr. Editor : — As you are kind enough to answer the in- 

 quiries of correspondents in the Genesee Farmer, I respect- 

 fully solicit advice in the management of an orchard which 

 has been neglected until it present.'; a very unsightly appear- 

 ance, 'I'he limbs are thickly covered with what 1 suppose 

 to be fruit spurs, down to the body of the tree, and arc so 

 gnarled and knotty as to give the'irce a very scraggy appoar- 

 nnce. The trees do not appear to have grown any for a 

 number of years, except the spurs, which have grown in 

 one direction one year, and another year another direction, 

 from a quarter to a half an inch at a time. The trees are 

 young and the soil is good, and in grass. Ought the spurs 

 to be trimmed off? and ought the ground to be plowed and 

 cultivated? A Subscriber. — Pleasant Mount, I'a., 1851. 



Your trees are deficient in vigor. Thin out the 

 spurs by cutting away the older and most deformed 

 ones ; cut away some of the old, enfeebled branches 

 also. Spado the ground about the roots, turning in 

 some old, well rotted manure, and some lime. You 

 will thus induce a new growth, and that is what is 

 wanted. 



^JR. Editor : — It was with pleasure that I read an article 

 in your vnlualde Farmer, concerning the method of prevent- 

 ing the striped bug from destroying vines, by putting a hand- 

 ful of tansey about them. I dropped the paper and started 

 for the Innsey bed, and soon had my vines surrounded with 

 tansy ; but it only seems to answer as a hiding place for 

 them. I have tried many recipes, but the only one that h'ls 

 been of service to mo is to cnlch and kill them. 



I have a question to ask you, through the Farmer. What 

 is it that punctures or bores the limbs of peach trees, thus 

 causing the leaves to curl up? I have kept as close a look- 

 out ai I possibly can. to discover tho "varmint," but cin 

 not succeed. Something bores n hole in the twij nnd de- 

 posits its eee, the limb swells, the leaves curl, and on cut- 

 tint; the limb open', you will discover a small maggot, if 

 yoii know any remedy, let us have it. (I) 



There is another little nuisance that has troubled my cherry 

 and poach trees very much. It has a very blunt, thick head, 

 otherwise it resembles a very small snail. Do you know 

 the name of it, and what it springs from? (12) I have suc- 

 ceeded in keeping it under my control this season, by sow- 

 ing ashes over my trees, which sticks to them and destroys 

 them efieclually. J. M. A. Estky. — Ogdejisburgh, N. Y., 

 July, 1851. 



(1) We have not seen the limbs of peaches punc- 

 tured here by insects, but we have "curl" in the 

 leaf during May and early part of June, occasioned, 

 as Vv'o De..?ve, by cold and variable weather. 



(2) This is the well known siug worm described 

 in Harris' Treatise as Sclandria cerasi. The rem- 

 edy you have adopted is the one we adopt, and is 

 quite effectual. 



Mr. Editor : — As a subscriber and render of your excel- 

 lent paper, I would ask if the Black Mulberry would not 

 thrive in this climate. Tho trees by nature atuiin a very 

 large size, similar to the black oak that grows in a clear field. 

 I do not recollect of seeing any of them since I left my na- 

 tive town. East Hampton, L. I. There I knew somo half a 

 dozen of them very large. Could it not be dwarfed the same 

 as the pear ? If so, please inform me. Are there any at tho 

 nurscrys in your place ? The Black Mulberry is q most de- 

 licious fruit — ripe last of June, on Long Island. Daniel 

 Miller. — Fulton, Oswego Co., N. Y., Aug., 1851, 



The Native Black will undoubtedly thrive well 

 with you. We cultivate the Black English Mulber- 

 ry, the fruit of which is superior to ours, and the 

 tree is not so largo. We know of no eflicient mode 

 of dwarfing'', except by pruning root and branch. — 

 There are some dwarf species on which it migiit be 

 worked, but we have not yet made any such experi- 

 ments. The fruit on our Black Mulberry trees 

 (English) is ripe now. 



Mr. Barry : — I have on hand a few dwarf pear trees 

 which I wish to set out this fall. Would you advise me to 

 set them out in an orchard of standard trees, or inclose them 

 by themselves ? The ground they occupy is nothing, D, 

 Gxvi.y.— West Carlisle, Ohio, 1851, 



If you have land enough, by all means plant them 

 by themselves. It is easier to give them the partic- 

 ular care and culture they require. There will be 

 no danger of their being injuriously shaded by taller 

 trees, and they will look better than if mixed with 

 standards. 



Planting Standard and Dwarf trees on the same 

 land is an cxcelleut economy for market growers 

 where land is scarce and dear, but not to be recom- 

 mended to amateurs who have land in abundance. 



Mr. Editor : — Will you inform me through the Genesee 

 Farmer, or some other way, whether the apricot and necta- 

 rine will do well, worked on the peach? If they will not 

 do well on the peach, what will do for stocks? Will Au- 

 gust be too late to budJ them ? What kinds are the best for 

 common uses in our climate, embracing three or four varie- 

 ties? J. D. CoNKLiN. — Locke, A'. Y., July, 1851, 



Both the Apricot and the Nectarine succeed well 

 on the peach stock in light dry soil. In heavy clay 

 soils use the plum. Y'^ou can bud on the peach in 

 Aug.]st and September, but it should be done on the 

 plum earlier unless it be the wild Canada and some 

 such late growing species. B st Apricots — Breda, 

 Early Golden, Moorpark, and I'l^ach. 



Nectarines — Early Violet, Elruge, and Downton. 



Mr. Editor : — Can apple trees, gooseberry and currant 

 busiies, and strawberry vines, be sent from Kochestcr to 

 Montpelier in safety ? S, W. — Calais, Vl., July, lH'tl. 



Certainly ; any time between the 10th of October 

 and 10th of November in autumn, or from the middle 

 of March till first of May in spring. Strawberry 

 plants can bii sent at any time. 



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