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,nd very prolific. Strawberries have sold in the 

 inciniiati market as follows: First arrivals, $5 to 

 6 per bushel; later arrivals, $2.50 to |-i. At 

 •etail, 25 cts. to 5 cts. The crop has been good. 



Cherries have done well this season. The Black 

 Tartariii.li is our best sweet market Cherry, and 

 as sold at $6 to $8 per bushel for choice fruit. 



May Duke aud Early May are most prolific, and 

 vorth $2.50 to $4 per bushel. Cherry comes into 

 narket May 20th, and disappears June 15th. 



Raspberries have been less productive of late 

 han in former years, particularly the Red variety, 

 , worm having attacked the foliage in the market 

 lantations. Black Caps predominate in market. 

 Lmong the Red fruit the Allen is promising, and is 

 Tolific, large and hard, fine and round. Market 

 irice $3 to $5 per bushel. 



Houghtoii's Seedling Gooseberry is largely grown, 

 )roducing under fair cultivation, say 200 bushels 

 er acre. The fruit is mainly sold in an unripe 

 tate in advance of other fruits, at $2 to $3 per 

 lushel. It never mildews. 



Plums are producing a full crop of perfect fruit 

 ad with but little attention to the trees. Jarring 

 he trees and killing the " Turk" on a sheet is the 

 uccessful remedy, comparatively speaking. 



Apples promise well, though some are dropping 

 irematureiy. . 



Pears promise Veil. The Bartlett is our best 

 narket Pear; worth we think for money making, 

 ,11 other varieties together. It comes early into 

 )rolific bearing, and sells readily at full prices. 



Currants are receiving, deservedly, more atten- 

 lon. The Bad and White Butch are a valuable 

 md profitable market fruit, and under proper cul- 

 ure are very prolitic. The fancy varieties are 

 ralued as a fancy articles. The Lawton Blackberry 

 las not yet equalled the expectation formed of it. 

 't may become more hardy and i^rolific. The fruit 

 s fine in quality. 



The Grape crop promised well ; until the warm 

 •ains of the jvast week set in, no rot had appeared, 

 md it is but limited in extent as yet. The Uatawla 

 s our leading variety. Isabella^ Diana^ Concord., 

 kc, are at home farther North. Delaware is a 

 lelicious grape, but a very slender grower with us. 



Peaches promise best along the North bank of 

 ;he Ohio, where protected by fogs from the river. 

 Yours, Respectfully, 



DAVID B. PIEKSON, Cor. Sec. 



THE BATTLE OF TKE BUGS. 



Large Cuoumber. — The London Gardener''s 

 Uhi'onicle mentions the receipt of a specimen of 

 ,he Empress Eugenie cucumber, 2 feet 3 inches 

 ong, and 8 inches round on an average — 6^ inches 

 •ound just above the stalk, and weighing 4 lbs. 

 The editor remarks that "it is very remarkable 

 ihat all tlie large cucumbers of which we have au- 

 ihentic records were white-spined." 



How TO Keep Grapes. — A correspondent of the 

 Prairie Farmer says : Keep them in the chaff or 

 more properly the shell, bran or covering of buck- 

 wheat. They will keep with little or no trouble. 



We observe that several of our exchanges have 

 commenced the annual campaign against tliat vora- 

 cious marauder, the yellow striped bug. We desire 

 to be heard on this matter. We think we have a 

 right to our say. We have had our experience, and 

 we mean to tell it. 



Our acquaintance with this interesting little insect 

 has not been of long continuanop, but it has been 

 quite intimate. We have learned to appreciate its 

 industry, perseverance and sagacity ; we may say 

 in fact, we have great respect for it. In our city 

 garden it was unknown. We were occasionally 

 visited by the great brown squash bug, which we- 

 massacred without mercy, but since becoming 

 acquainted with the striped variety, we have learned 

 to consider the former a harmless creature, quite 

 moderate in its ravages, and altogether a very con- 

 siderate bug. The .first year we cultivated our 

 present garden, we were unmolested by the yellow 

 coated gentry. Squashes, cucumbers and pumpkins 

 thrived beyond measure, and all thoughts of bugs 

 were far from us. Indeed, in our confident security, 

 we were led to believe the yellow striped bug, about 

 which we had read so much in the agricultural 

 papers, to be no better than a humbug or a bug- 

 bear. But, alas! this fatal security cost us dear! 

 During the succeeding spring we noticed one morn- 

 ing a number of bugs with yellow backs upon some 

 of our promising vines. Presently we observed, 

 that they appeared to be decorating tlie leaves with 

 a sort of lace-work, more ornamental than -useful. 

 We began to open our eyes to the state of the case, 

 and concluded that the yellow striped bug had come 

 at last. We have been more and more of the same 

 opinion ever since. However, we were not to be 

 frightened by a bug. We resolved to take immedi- 

 ate and effectual measures to stop the ravages of the 

 enemy. A friend said, put meal on the vines; we 

 did, and the bugs grew fat on it! Try linie, said 

 another; we tried it, and came to the conclusion 

 that the plants'had the worst of it. The bugs not 

 only continued their ravages — they multiplied and 

 increased; they came in swarms, and though we 

 pursued them remorselessly with thumb and linger, 

 they literally covered the vines. Peojjle told us 

 they would only eat the tender leaves, but we found 

 they not only eat the leaves, tender and tough, but 

 the very stalks down to the ground — they want the 

 entire plant. To console us, some said their rava- 

 ges would not continue long, but they came early 

 in May, and staid till late in the summer. We began 

 to think the habits of the creatures were very 

 imperfectly known — but had the consolation of feel- 

 ing that we were in a fair way to become very 

 familiar with them. Still we continued the contest; 

 hopelessly, we confess, but we meant to fight till 

 the last leaf was gone. We put onions in the hills, 

 we laid bits of camphor on nice white paper, we 

 planted tomatoes, we sprinkled ashes, we covered 

 with cotton batting — all, all in vain. The bugs 

 flapped their wings and laughed in our face. Day 

 by day the plants grew raggeder, until it made us 

 feel jjoverty stricken to look at them. When we 

 viewed the great gashes in the big leaves of our 

 choicest plants, we felt like striking the attitude and 

 exclaiming with Mark Anthony — 



" See what a rent the envious cusses made 1" 



