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York — has various names, but as it is said to have been in the early 

 possession of the Onondaga Indians, this is the real name. It is as 

 tall in stalk as the common yellow corn, large in leaf; stalk, and 

 leaf bright green, ear a little longer than the varieties just named, 

 very sweet, tender, and desirable, when pure, but is now much 

 mixed with other kinds. These three kinds are all the sorts worth 

 attention that I know of. The Stowell evergreen, and a host of 

 others, only corrupt these kinds when grown near them; are not to 

 be compared with them in excellence, and the distribution of them 

 has done harm, not good. 



, Mr. N. C. Meeker. — This last remark is too sweeping. The 

 StoAvell evergreen is a most valuable variety in the West and 

 South. One should be on his guard in concluding that what is 

 suited to one locality is suited to all others. The corn raised in 

 New England is of no value for planting in warmer climates and 

 on corn soils. 



WOEMS ON STRAWBEEEY VINES. 



Mr. F. T. Haseltine, Hale's Corners, Wis., states that a worm 

 worked on the leaves of their vines, making the fruit worthless, 

 and he inquires if there is a remedy, and whether burning the 

 mulching in the spring would be a preventive, and not injui-e the 

 fruit. 



jNIr. N. C. Meeker. — It will be impossible for the Club to give 

 specific directions in this case, as they have never seen vines so 

 affected. The worms may breed in the mulching; if so, to burn 

 it early in the spring, providing the crowns of the plants are not 

 hurt, would be a remedy. Perhaps next year the worms may dis- 

 appear. It is not often that any class of insects that injure vege- 

 tation stays long. This year the canker-worm disappeared, and in 

 many localities the circulios, which had destroyed peach crops for 

 years, did no damage. 



EXTENSIVE VmEYAED. 



Mr. M. B. Bateham, the secretary of the Lake Shore Grape- 

 Growers' Association, informs us that several large capitalists of 

 Dutchess county, N. Y., have recently purchased 1,200 acres of 

 land at Brocton Station, on the Lake Shore railroad, between Dun- 

 kirk and Erie, for the purpose of extensive vineyard-planting. 

 They are laying out a village, and contracting for a hotel to be 

 builtj and dwellings for a colony of Germans, who are to come 

 from the Rhine districts, to serve as laborers. One hundred acres 

 or more of vineyard are to be planted the coming spring, and 



