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THE GENESEE FARMER 



oblig'ed to saw for itself a passage to the light and 

 air. Tlie ajiimal must have retreated, like a careful 

 miner, to await the effect of its surpi-ising efforts, and 

 then possibly would have undergone its second trans- 

 formation safely hidden in the vault from whence we 

 dragged it forth. I wished to have kept the little 

 sawyer, to have ascertained the fly it would have 

 turned to ; but it was dropped among the grass and 

 flowers, and we could not again di?cover it. AVe 

 then noticed that on the adjoining Black Oaks many 

 fine branches were withered, and on the slightest 

 touch they fell to the ground — some of larger girth 

 than the one that we had examined first The same 

 cause had been at work, but the sawyer was not 

 visible. 



Can vou tell me the parent insect's name ? 



Oaki'axds, Rice Lake, C. W. C. P. T. 



MILDEW OX GOOSEBEREIES. 



Me. Editor : — According to my experience and 

 observation, the gooseberry bushes that grow on 

 high, dry ground, exposed to the full power of the 

 sun's rays, are sure to mildew, when those in rich mold, 

 on a level low ground, and within the influence of 

 shade, as a fence or distant trees, \rill be healthy. 



The gooseben-y in its native state is often found on 

 low and even moist ground, but thrives on a flat, a 

 little shaded by larger trees. The bushes being too 

 thick and woody in the center, so as to stop the free 

 circulation of air, may be one cause of mildew, as 

 peas, if sown in double, close rows, are more Hable to 

 it than when sown in single rows. 0. P. T. 



Oaklaxds, Rice Lake, C. "W. 



ORNAMENTAL FLOWER STANDS. 



Those who admire flowers in the hall or in the 

 drawing-room, should always provide such stands as 

 will enable them to keep the pots without pans, for 

 the water in a pan is ruin to all plants standing in 

 them, and this can easily be proved by reference to 

 the thousands and tens of thousands that are killed 

 daily, in all the manufacturing towns and populous 



cities in the empire. They are watered by filling the 

 pans. This water is soon mischievous, because the 

 roots are easily rotted by stagnant moisture. The 

 etandfi for flower pots should therefore be provided 

 with a receptacle for the superabundant moisture, for 

 it is impossible to prevent water from running through 



the pots. This receptacle may be a groove round 

 the outside of the solid bottom, forming a gutter into 

 which the surplus moisture might run, and from 

 which it is easily taken up by a sponge. The bottom 

 must of course slope toward the outside, or have 

 grooves or gutters leading from the center to the 

 outside. This does away with the necessity of using 

 pans, and the danger of injiwing the plants by stag- 

 nant water. 



"With regard to the form of these stands, they may 

 be various, accoi'ding to the places they are to occupy, 

 and the number of plants which they are to accom- 

 modate. There is good room to exercise a little 



taste upon the subject. When the stand is for a 

 single pot, there must be a sort of cup for it to stand 

 over ; not to stand in, so as to touch the water, be- 

 cause that would be as bad as a pan. These stands 

 require to be emptied occasionally, because every 

 time the plants are watered some would go into the 

 gutters, which, if not attended to, would overflow. 

 These stands are made variously of iron or wicker, as 

 the case may be, and may be had of almost any 

 form, in wood of the rustic seat makers and veranda 

 builders, and in iron from the general wire-workers. 

 Some are cast, but, rich as they look, they are not 

 adapted to move up and down or about a house. — 

 London Horticultural Magazine. 



HINTS ON THE REARING AND MANAGE- 

 MENT OF TREES. 



Vast sums of money are annually spent in this 

 country on trees; it would be impossible to make a 

 close estimate of the amount, but we cannot be very 

 far out of the way in putting it at a million of dol- 

 lars. We believe we could show by figures that this 

 is not, as it may appear to many, an immoderate esti- 

 mate; for more than one-quarter of that amount may 

 be set down to Rochester alone. This gives us some 

 idea of the extent and importance of our arboricul- 

 tural interest, yet it attracts little attention. The 

 men engaged in rearing and planting trees are not 

 those who make much noise in the world. We have 

 no arboricultural societies to collect mformation or 

 incite to experiment and observation — no public gar- 

 dens or arboretums to test theories and modes of cul- 

 ture — the whole matter thus far has been left to indi- 

 vidual effort and enterpiTse; and as both growers and 

 purchasers of trees usually proceed upon the princi- 

 ples of economy, no great improvement has been 

 made upon old methods; at least, this business has 

 certainly not advanced in the same ratio as some 

 other branches of the useful arts and sciences. How 

 many of those engaged in the planting and culture of 



