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two or three days after the egg is deposited under the cuticle 

 of the plum. It is a tedious process, but preferable to having 

 no crop at all of the luscious imperial or green gage. I have 

 thought that some hquid compound might be formed of such 

 offensive materials, and thrown with a syringe over the young 

 plums, as to deter them from laying their eggs in them. I 

 hope to try it another year. 



The Apple. 



This most valuable of all fruits, grows in perfection in the 

 valley of the Ohio. The climate and soil both combine to 

 give it all the excellence it is capable of possessing, both in 

 flavor and size. I consider this region the natural climate of 

 the apple, as well as of Indian corn. All the varieties yet 

 cultivated succeed to admiration. Its fruit is one of the sta- 

 ple articles of export in several of the river countries in Ohio. 

 From the choice trees brought out by Israel Putnam, the 

 grandson of the General, as early as the year 179S, many fine 

 varieties has e been produced from the seeds. Single apples 

 of the russet, greening, blue pearmain, golden pippin, kc. are 

 often seen to weigh from sixteen to twenty-six ounces. Im- 

 mense quantities are dried in kilns, prepared for this purpose, 

 and distributed all over the newer western states, as low down 

 as New Orleans, and as high up as Wisconsin. We are now 

 cultivating, in addition to the best varieties of Mr. Cox's day, 

 several of the new ones lately introduced in the eastern slates. 



Flower Gardzx. 



In this department, little has yet been done in Ohio, except 

 in some of our larger cities. In new countries, the useful and 

 needful must precede for a long time the ornamental. ]Sever- 

 theless, a growing taste for horticulture is beginning to be per- 

 ceived in many of our villages, and by some of our more in- 

 telligent farmers. In the older settlements many of the door 

 yards are decorated with rose-bushes, snow-balls and ahheas; 

 while the fronts and door-ways are covered with the wide 

 spread branches of the wild Rosa rubra, or multiflora of the 

 west. The Bignonm radicans, native trumpet flower, or the 

 tri-colored fragrant honeysuckle, are also favorites with some 

 of our inhabitants. The deep green foliage of the former is 

 sometimes seen mounting the roofs of our cabins, and thrusting 



