1872 The Western Pomologist and Gardener. 161 



The White Delaware Grape.— Geo. W. Campbell, of Ohio, has our thanks for a 

 plant of his White Delaware. It is making a fine growth and we hope in the course of 

 human events to eat of its fruit. We believe Mr. Campbell has not as yet placed the 

 vines on sale— pieferring to first have the fruit tried in different localities. 



The Cabbage Flea. — A correspondent of the Western Farmer has discovered, while 

 fighting the Colorado potato bug, that Paris Green is death on the cabbage flea. It may . 

 be mixed with plaster or flour — one part of the Green to about twenty-five of plaster, 

 and the plants dusted when wet with dew. 



Grape Vine Borer. We learn that a small bug is doing considerable damage to 

 grape vines in and about Knoxville. It bores in near tlie joints and destroys a portion of 

 the wood and the pith. We should be glad to hear from other localities in reference to 

 this bug. 



In Connecticut a worn out field was, fifty years ago, planted in timber. The field hits 

 yielded ten cords per year, and fencing for the farm for twenty years past, and last year 

 when cleared, produced fifty cords per acre. 



Books, Periodicals, Catalogues, etc. 



Barry's Fruit Garden, by P. BARRy ; Orange Judd & Co., New York, Publish- 

 ers. Price $1.50. — We have in hand a copy of a new and enlarged edition of this book. 

 Mr. Barry's well known reputation as a fruit grower and nurseryman of some thirty -five 

 years' standing, together with his ability as a writer, guarantee in this new edition of the 

 "Fruit Garden," a volume of no ordinary worth to every fruit grower. Its composition 

 is plain and straightforward, and its subject matter made doubly familiar by a free use of 

 truthful illustrations. In this connection the following from the Gardener's Monthly is 

 right to the point : 



" And now a few words about ' The Fruit Garden ' itself. Its chief characteristics are its 

 clearness and its minuteness in the details of culture. In no work that we know of is so 

 much told which the learner may want to know. No one, perhaps, can so well appreciate 

 this public want as a nurseryman. He is the focus of all sorts of questions from those 

 whom he deals with. To many, so much attention to detail would seem needless ; but the 

 nurseryman knows better, and Mr. Barry has taken advantage of his commercial position 

 to give to the public just what the novice will most waut to know, as well as that which 

 interest those well advanced in the fruit-grower's art. He has resigned to other pens the 

 more descriptive parts. His lists embrace only the most popular kinds, and such that are 

 pretty sure to be in a general request. In this way his work has come into no competi- 

 tion with those of our best authors, but rather makes one of a complete series of American 

 fruit works." 



Report of the Comjqssioner of Agriculture on the Diseases of Cattle in the 

 United States. — We have received from the Commissioner of Agriculture, the above 

 work. It is a quarto volume of about two hundred pages, gotten up and illustrated in 

 very fine style: gives the result of investigations, made by Prof Gamgee, by authority of 

 Congress, relative to the "Splenic Fever," or " Texas Cattle Disease," which prevailed 

 four year^ since in several of our Western States; also investigations of the pleur-pneu- 

 monia which prevailed so extensively in the Eastern States at the same time, and much 

 other information relative to the diseases of cattle. Interest and value are added to these 

 reports by the use of colored illustrations of diseased lungs and other organs of the body 



Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. — Edward W. Bush- 

 neli, Corresponding Secretary, favors us with a copy of this work tor 1871. Prominent 

 among its contents appears a very able report of the committee on fruits, by the chairman, 

 Robert Manning. This is probably the most prosperous and wealthy horticultural soci- 

 ety on either side of the Atlantic. It has a membership of over one thousand. Its annual 

 disbursements, on premiums, exclusive of medals, is nearly $4,000. The treasurer's report 

 for the year shows a total of property, real and personal, of $366,385. The aggregate of 

 receipts and expenditures lor the year 1871, $48,933. 



