How TO Destroy the Aphis in the Orchard and Nursery. — Having seen several 

 inquiries iu different publications, asking information as to some means of destroying 

 the small green insects called Aphis, which are very injurious to the young shoots of 

 apple trees, especially of young grafts, nearly destroying them, and having found by 

 fair experiment a sure and safe remedy, I take the trouble for the benefit of othei-s, to 

 forward it to you for publication, if you deem it worthy of a place in your columns. 



Take a convenient vessel, put into it a quantity of white lead, and add water to bring 

 it to the consistence of whitewash. Apply it to the young growing scions with a soft 

 brush, or by dipping them into it. Several applications may be necessary in the course 

 of the season. J. Morse. — Granville, Bradford Co., Pa. 



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and well shaped, often ranging from twelve ounces to a pound, striped with dull red 

 over a yellowish green ground. The skin is uneven, very much resembling the Twenty 

 Ounce red streak. Calyx closed, in an even round basin of medium depth ; stem long, 

 and rather slender for so large a fruit. Flesh coarse, and no better than the Tiuenty 

 Ounce in quality, of a greenish color. Ripens in October, and continues but a short 

 time. Can this be the Gravemtein apple ? There are several trees in difterent gardens 

 among us, and they are all uniformly the same tree and same fruit. [We think so, but 

 it is greatly superior to the Twenty Ounce in flavor. — Ed.] 



My Northern Sjjys have fruited the past season. The fruit is very fair, and nearly 

 the size of the Fall Pippin. I think our warm and deep soils in this section will be 

 favorable for that apple. I think we raise the best Neivtown Pippins in the world, at 

 least. Long Island cannot come up to us in size or flavor. Spitzenbergs and Swaars 

 are also very fine ; Baldwins and Greenings are only middling. Bussets are not worth 

 cultivating ; they are large in size, but coarse, dry, flavorless things, more than one half 

 of them rot before spring. If the Pomological Congressmen had stricken out the 

 Dearhorn^s Seedling from the list of pears, we would have been entirely ruined in this 

 quarter for a good August pear after the Bloodgood, but thanks to Seedling^s friends, I 

 should mourn to see it turned out of the door. The Flemish Beauty, GanscVs Ber- 

 gamot, Duchesse d' Angouleme, come up to the highest standard of perfection with us 

 on standard trees. Pear on the quince has never amounted to a hill of beans with us 

 yet ; it is doubtful whether they will, for the quince itself does poorly, and with the best 

 care is short lived, although in some locations they are fine, but sucb are rare. Geo. 

 Ketchum, 2d. — Mai'shall, Mich. 



[The varieties of pears you inquire about can be had at tlie nurseries here. — Ed.] 



The Curculio. — It would have done you good had you seen my Jeffersons, Wash- 

 ingtons, Huling'^s Superhs, Green Gages, Colurnhias, Goldendrops, apricots, nectarines, 

 last year, all bending under a tremendous load of the finest fruits ever beheld in the 

 neighborhood of Port Dalhousie, saved as follows : — Placed two or three well made 

 wind mills in the head of each tree, with a clapper attached to each which struck upon 

 a piece of sheet iron, and when the wind blew kept up a terrible jingling noise ; one and 

 a half yards of white muslin tied up so as to float nicely in the air as close to the tree 

 as possible without touching it ; and lastly, Avhen dinner was over each day, I would 

 catch up a sheet made for the purpose, and say, " Come, boys, hold the sheet," and I would 

 jar the tree and kill all that fell upon it. Operations to commence as soon as the blos- 

 soms have fallen, and continued until the stone becomes hard in the fruit, after which 

 the curculio cannot make it drop, though some half or one-sided fruit will appear by his 

 work, but the quantity will be small and not missed. W. H. Read. — Port Dalhousie, 

 Canada West. 



