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the pines, it should be removed from time to time as the well-being of the pine 

 seems to demand. 



The facilities for the production of forest-tree plants in European nurseries, 

 especially the larch and evergreen, enable them to furnish us with the seedlings 

 of the latter at far less cost than they have hitherto been produced in this coun- 

 try. The European larch may be planted and successfully grown on our rocky 

 hills and poorest soils. Very many waste lands of New England and other 

 parts of our country might yield millions of dollars' worth of timber, and at the 

 same lime be rendered beautiful by beinj covered with trees. D. C. Scojield. 



Elgin', 111. 



[The importance of tree-planting, even in this comparatively new country, can 

 hardly be exaggerated. The reckless and ruinous destruction of forests here 

 must be followed by the same results that have ensued in the Old World. There 

 is no special interposition of Providence in our favor ; and we deem it our duty 

 to do all in our power to remedy a crying evil. — Ed.'\ 



Mildew is one of the most destructive diseases which attack the grape. It 

 is most prevalent during moist seasons ; and old vines are more liable to the 

 disease than young ones, because they have exhausted the potash from the soil ; 

 and, when the leaves absorb carbonic acid from the atmosphere, there is no pot- 

 ash with which to form a healthy salt, and the unhealthy leaves invite the fungi. 

 Wood-ashes, if applied in proper time, so that the potash may be dissolved and 

 carried to the roots, and from the roots to the leaves, are a preventive of mildew. 

 Soap-suds are very beneficial, because they contain a considerable quantity of 

 potash. Sulphur is very extensively used by grape-culturists as a preventive 

 of mildew. Grape-vines in low situations are most subject to this destructive 

 disease. — Western Rural. 



\^Per co?if}'a, the vines that mildew as bad as any with us are those that have 

 been treated each year, for three years past, with an immense quantity of un- 

 leached wood-ashes, so that they cannot possibly lack potash. 



It is an exceeding reckless statement to say that wood-ashes prevent mildew. 

 Soap-suds and potash in almost any form are excellent manures for vines ; but 

 we have no evidence that they prevent mildew. Till we find the cause, we shall 

 not find the cure ; and a positive dogmatic statement, without any qualification, 

 that this or that thing will prevent mildew, must be regarded with much dis- 

 trust. — £11.1 



Early Rose Potato. — By a comparison of the results obtained with the 

 Early Rose, Goodrich, and Buckeye Potatoes, cultivated on a small scale, Mr. 

 J. H. Foster of Kirkwood, N.J., estimates that the comparative yield per acre 

 would be, — Early Rose, 370 bushels ; Goodrich, 192 ; and Buckeye, 181. 



Hon. Marshall P. Wilder of Dorchester has growing on his place in 

 Dorcliester more than eight hundred different varieties of pears, and has exhib- 

 ited at one time more than three hundred. 



