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that the bed smells worse after its roasting than before. 

 Always air beds in tJie shade, and, if possible, in cool and 

 windy days. And now, if any of our attentive housewife- 

 readers, and we have not a few, are disposed to reward us 

 for all this advice, let them give us a bed to sleep on, when 

 we next visit them, made of growing feathers, from live 

 and healthy geese, carefully picked, well cured, daily shaken 

 up and thoroughly aired ; and if we do not dream that the* 

 owner is an angel, it will be because we are too much occu- 

 pied in sound sleeping. 



NAIL UP YOUR BUGS. 



"The words of the wise are as goads and as nails fastened bj masters 

 of assemblies." — Solomon. 



Aftek a great pother about canker worms, peach-tree 

 worms, and other audacious robber-worms; after smoke, 

 salt, tar, and tansy, bands of wool, cups of oil, lijne, ashes, 

 and surgery have been set forth as remedies, to the confu- 

 sion of those who have tried them bootlessly, it now appears 

 that we are about to nail the rascals. The Boston Cultiva- 

 tor, contains an article " On Destroying Insects ou Trees," 

 from which we quote : 



" I did not intend to give it publicity until I had fiilly 

 tested it, but as the ravages are very extensive in the West, 

 I cannot delay gi>'ing you the experiment, hoping that 

 some of your western readers may now give it a fair trial 

 and report the result. I will give one case whicli mny 

 induce the experiment wherever the evil is felt. In conver- 

 sation with a friend in Newburyport, Dr. Watson, last 

 fall, I mentioned the experiment; he invited me to his 

 garden, where Ia»t year a fruit-tree was infested \nth the 



