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nurseries at Cambridge. The latter gentleman possesses an 

 extraordinary knowledge of fruit and fruit trees, so much so 

 as to be able to distinguish almost any sort by the leaf or 

 wood ; and is, besides, a gentleman of great talent and learn- 

 ing. Mr. Hovey edits the Magazine of Horticulture, and is 

 the author of the Fruits of America, one of the most splendid 

 Pomological works ever published. 



I was anxious to see these nurseries, having frequently 

 read about them ; and I assure you I was not disappointed. 

 The accounts which you say you have read of them in 

 England are by no means exaggerated. There are some 

 nurseries in this country which occupy a greater extent of 

 ground than these, but none where all the branches of the 

 nursery business are so extensively carried on, and so admi- 

 rably managed. I have omitted saying anything about the 

 flower grounds, which I shall do at a future time, as well as 

 some hasty notes of other places here, with my own strict- 

 ures thereon. ***** * — Londoniensis. 



Boston, August, 1850. 



Art. IY. Salt and Lime for the Curculio. By C. Good- 

 rich, Esq., Burlington, Vt. 



Sir, — The following experiments, made by Mrs. Edwin 

 Benedict, of Plattsburgh, N. Y., may be useful in settling 

 the question, whether salting trees destroys the Curculio. 

 If you think so, use them as you see proper. 



Experiment 1. Plums, about one-third grown, punctured, 

 and containing eggs of the Curculio, were placed in a com- 

 mon flower-pot, the last week in June. Soil from the gar- 

 den, about six inches deep in the pot. Fine salt about one- 

 quarter inch thick on the soil ; plums laid on the salt. The 

 grubs came out of the plums, passed through the salt into 

 the soil, and the perfect Curculios came out about August 1st. 



Experiment 2. The same as the first, except that fresh 

 air-slacked lime was put on the surface of the soil instead of 

 salt. Result the same as the first. 



