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ating a taste for horticulture around Boston, and I trust you will re- 

 ceive a substantial proof of the estimation in which your labors are 

 held by a discerning public, in an increase of subscribers to your next 

 volume. 



Will you oblige several of your constant readers, by giving us, in 

 your next number, the best and most speedy method of extirpating 

 the worm, (called fish worm,) from the earth in flower pots? Scarce 

 a family can grow a few pots without being more or less troubled; 

 and I think you would confer a benefit on your readers by an article 

 on this subject; at least you will oblige One Subscriber, Bosto7i, 

 Dec. 26, 1840. 



[We are hai)py to hear that our labors have been acceptable to our 

 readers: it will always be our endeavor to advance the interests of 

 gardening, as far as we are able to do so. Worms in pots may be 

 easily destroyed, simjily by watering the soil with lime-water, which 

 may be made by putting a piece of lime, weighing about two pounds, 

 into a pail of water; when the whole is slaked and well stirred up, 

 it should be allowed to settle. The clear water may then be turned 

 off, and the soil in the pots should be liberally watered with it. The 

 worms will soon leave the premises, by crawling out upon the sur- 

 face, when they may be taken of!" and destroyed. If any remain, 

 another watering may be applied. We have never found any diffi- 

 culty in destroying them by this method. — Ed. 



Seedling dahlias. — We alluded, a short time since, to Mr. Han- 

 cock's new seedling dnhlias: since then, we have received a letter 

 from Mr. Hancock, in which he states that he has saved ninety-nine 

 dahlias, selected from about twelve hundred plants, some of which 

 he thinks will equal any thing yet produced in America. If they only 

 hold their goodness, many of them will far eclipse the "Hero of Tip- 

 ])ecanoe." — T. Hancock, Burlington, N. J., Dec. 1840. 



The wild Cherry used as a stock for budding. — A correspondent 

 of the Albany Cultivator states that the wild cherry, (Priinus vir- 

 giniana,) is used as a stock for budding, by Mr. Floy, nurseryman, 

 of Harlem, N. Y. Mr. Floy had two or three rows of the stocks 

 budded with plums last year, (1839,) by way of experiment, and 

 with what appeared tolerable success, half or two thirds of them 

 having taken: they were doing well, having made shoots averaging 

 two feet long, (then June last,) of most luxuriant and thrifty jippear- 

 ance. We should be glad to learn from Mr. Floy how well the 

 experiment succeeds, and whether he thinks the cherry stock ma\' be 

 used to advantage in budding the plum. The trees may grow well 

 for a year or two, but it remains to be seen whether they will con- 

 tinue to show the same luxuriance, or whether the crojis will be as 

 abundant and good as on the conuiion plum, Prunus domestica, or 

 the beach plum, P. maritima, tliough we are not av»'are that the lat- 

 ter has ever been tried as a stock. — Ed. 



Preservation of apples. — At the late exhibition of the New Haven 

 County Agricultural Society, in October l;ist. Mr. Augustus Foote, 

 of Bradford, Conn., presented some tipples of the growth of the year 

 previous, 1839; they were greatly admired by all who saw them, both 

 for their beauty and their remarkable state of preservation. A corres- 

 pondent of the Farmer's Gazette was (!e.>iirons of learning of Mr. 

 Foote, the method by winch he was enabled to preserve them to such 



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