250 Notes and Gleattings. 



Insects. — La Pointe County, Wis. — The potato-bugs have made their ap- 

 pearance, and commenced their ravages on the vines : we do all that can be 

 done to destroy them. 



Polk County, Wis. — The potato-crop looks well ; but would have been en- 

 tirely destroyed if growers had not daily picked the bugs, so that but few eggs 

 were liatched. In some gardens, where this was neglected, the tops are entirely 

 eaten up. 



Carver County, Min. — Our crops promise well except potatoes, which, on 

 account of the potato-bug, I fear will be a partial failure. 



Green Lake County, Wis. — The potato-bugs are numerous, and threaten 

 to destroy the entire crop ; but the season is so far advanced that a portion may 

 be spared. 



Cass County, Mich. — The ten-lined potato-bug (beetle) is rapidly extending. 

 First seen here last year. 



Ma/ioning County, O. — The cut-worm has been very bad on many pieces 

 of corn : otherwise corn would be good. 



Stark County, O. — Corn is backward, and injured by worms. 



Linn County, Kan. — The chintz-bugs have injured late wheat somewhat, 

 spring wheat in particular. 



Rutherford County, Tenn. — Insects are preying upon some crops. The red 

 ants, the louse {aphis), and grasshoppers are injuring the late planting; and the 

 boll-worm has appeared in several localities. 



The Watering- Pot. — On perusing the article "on watering out-door 

 plants," in the August number of the Journal (page 115), it has occurred to me 

 that it may not be known to all of its many readers that tlie choice of the time 

 for such watering is not necessarily restricted to the hours of early morning and 

 dewy eve. There are places where, from choice, the operation is perlbrmed in 

 the heat of mid-day. In the interior of the island of Cuba, under the broiling 

 sun of the tropics, I have often seen the watering-pot in daily and free use be- 

 tween eleven in the morning and three in the afternoon. There is, I believe, a 

 prevailing impression in this vicinity that the leaves of plants watered beneath 

 the rays of the summer sun will wither or blister, and die. Who testifies that 

 such a result follows those showers which visit us during, or are followed by, 

 bright sunshine .-* I am sure that no such damage ever resulted from the artifi- 

 cial irrigation which I witnessed in "the ever-faithful isle." The garden, on the 

 contrary, continued thrifty and beautiful. Has any reader of this note any ex- 

 perience on the subject .'' I have in my garden some rose-bushes which have 

 negligently been allowed to sprout from the root and below the point of budding. 

 These siioots are strong and healthy, and I shall devote them to this experiment: 

 instead of digging them out, I shall water them in full sunshine, and report prog- 

 ress. I do not water my plants (except immediately upon transplanting), but 

 rely upon a sharp hoe, a good digging-fork, an iron rake, and a little industry in 

 the use of these implements. C. G. 



Philadelphia. 



