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the graft has taken, fruit will be produced. Thus 

 every farmer, who has wild vines growing on hfs ground, 

 may, by procuring cuttings of hardy foreign or native 

 kind, and paying a little attention to the grafting and 

 training, be soon and amply supplied with grapes for 

 market and wine making. 



PLASTER FOR TREES. 



The cheapest and most suitable remedy for wounds 

 upon trees, occasioned by pruning, is Spanish brown 

 paint, a little thicker than pa.inters generally use. Lay 

 it on with a brush and take care to cover the wounded 

 part thoroughly. This will effectually exclude the air 

 and weather, and nature's healing process will soon 

 perform the cure. 



HOW TO PLANT FRUIT SEEDS. 



Put peach, apricot, plum and cherry stones, and pear 

 and quince seeds into the ground, two or three inches 

 below the surface, cover them with earth, and then lay 

 over them a course of well rotted manure. I have 

 always succeeded in producing an abundant crop, ex- 

 cept in one instance of planting of peach stones, and 

 another of pear seeds; the non-success of the former I 

 imputed to the dryness of the soil, and that of the lat- 

 ter to the destruction of the seed in the pumice, it 

 having remained in barrels several days, and probably 

 underwent some fermentation. I should advise the 

 planting of fruit stones and seeds in a moist but not a 

 wet soil. 



TO DESTROY THE CATERPILLAR ON FRUIT TREES. 



The honorable Timothy Pickering has communicated 

 to the Massachusetts Agricultural Society an eligible 

 method of exterminating caterpillars, more especially 

 when their nests are constructed on the extreme bran- 

 ches of large trees not accessible by ladders. It con- 

 sists of a brush made of hog's bristles introduced 

 between two stiff v/ires, closelv twisted, ?iniilar to the 



