72 Domestic Notices. 



Seedling Japan Lilies. — J. W. Boott, Esq., of this city, an amateur gen- 

 tleman, possessing a small, but choice collection of plants, has succeeded in 

 raising and blooming seedlings of the iilium lancifolium album, impreg- 

 nated with the L. lancifolium rubrum, which are precisely like the L. lan- 

 cifolium punctatura ; showing that the latter is only an intermediate variety 

 which can easily be produced by crossing the album and rubrum. We are 

 desirous now of seeing what the results will be of seedlings raised from the 

 Japan lilies, impregnated with our native species, such as canad^nse, su- 

 p6rbum, philad^lphicum, &c. We anticipate great acquisitions to our hardy 

 lilies.— ^rf. 



Red Check Apple. — This is the name of a fine apple exhibited last season, 

 and also in the season of 1843, at the Worcester County Horticultural So- 

 ciety's Exhibition. It originated in Worcester County, and has much of 

 the beauty and general appearance of the Hawthorndean or Maiden's Blush, 

 but is flatter ; it is a most excellent fruit, ripening in September and Octo- 

 ber, and keeping as late as December, when we had a specimen presented 

 to us. It is a very tender, breaking, and juicy apple, and also possesses a 

 brisk and agreeable flavor ; its best season for judging of its qualities is Oc- 

 tober, when it is said to equal the Porter. — Ed. 



Cultivation of the Olive in Mississippi. — Mr. De Buys, of Biloxi, Miss., 

 has succeeded in cultivating the Olive tree. He states that he planted, 

 about ten years since, in the month of January, in the poor, coarse soil of 

 that vicinity, Olive cuttings, from which, without further trouble, after se- 

 ven years, (the common fruit-bearing time of this tree) he gathered, in gen- 

 eral, from every tree, a bushel of, in no part of the earth surpassable, 

 OXwes.—iCultiv.for Oct. 1844, p. 297.) 



Iron a Remedy for Blight in Pear Trees. — A correspondent of the Culti- 

 vator, who, from the initials, we take to be our friend of Newburgh, N.Y., 

 states, that he has found iron ore, or cinders of iron, placed round the roots 

 of trees, drives away the insect which deposits the eggs that produce the 

 worm. Having tried this remedy in a sandy soil, and in a stiff soil, and in 

 places distant from each other, and having driven off the insect when the 

 trees of others were very much injured or destroyed in the neighborhood, 

 he advises all those who are troubled by these insects to try the use of iron, 

 rather than be under the necessity of continually topping off the limbs which 

 contain the worm, or young insect. He thinks it probable that the iron is 

 unfavorable to the worm which drops from the branches, and makes its win- 

 tering place at the root of the tree, and then the insect avoids an unfavorable 

 location for its young. But whatever maybe the theory, it is sufficient that 

 iron has the desired effect. — (Cultiv. Oct. 1844. p. 305.) 



Prevention of Mildew on Grapes. — Early in the Spring, the main stems 

 are peeled, or scraped quite clean, then are whitened with a mixture of 

 lime and sulphur, as much of the latter as to make a very strong smell. 

 Since using this composition, a correspondent states his grapes have been 

 perfectly free from mildew. — {N. E. Farm. 1844. p. 67.) 



We would recommend a trial of this to our friends who are troubled with 

 mildew. — Ed. 



