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NEW ENGLAND FARilER. 



June 



and as early as the ground can he worked, be- 

 cause, in the tirst place, aUowins; that the plants 

 have been properly protected during the winter by 

 a covering, these plants have rested over win- 

 ter, and in the spring are in just the best possible 

 condition that they can be in to bear the operation 

 of transplautinir: and, in the second place that 

 there is less lievjility from droughts and from the 

 heat of the sun after transplanting than in the fall. 

 Abington, Mass., April 28, 1870. H. 



8ANF0RD PREMIUM CORN. 



May 7th, 18G9, I planted one quart of the above 

 corn on warm land, well dressed ; hoed twice. 

 ilesM^;,— September 20, just in the milk; short, 

 stout growth ; good green fodder for cows. Obser- 

 vation, — Too late for latitude 44° north. 



No. Anson, Me., April 22, 1870. Geo. Flint. 



THE CUKRANT 'WORM. 



The miller that deposits the egg, is about 

 the size of the common bee miller, with broader 

 wings, and of a dark brown color. They de- 

 posit their eggs about the 10th to the loth of 

 June, on the under side of the leaves, gener- 

 ally on the new suckers, and close to the 

 ground. The eggs are white, and glued to the 

 stem and branch stems of the leaf, in a row, 

 the ends nearly touching — there being some- 

 times one hundred on a single leaf. They 

 hatch in three or four days, the young worm 

 crawling from the stem to the thin part of the 

 leaf, where it at once begins its work of devas- 

 tation, being invariably blessed with a raven- 

 ous appetite. The first indications of their 

 presence will be seen in the leaf in which they 

 were hatched, being pierced with holes about 

 the size cf a pin head, each worm making a 

 separate hole. They continue to gnaw round 

 and round until the several holes meet, and 

 the leaf is entirely consumed, when they all 

 emigrate in a body to the leaf above, which 

 soon disappears, and so on, leaving nothing 

 but the withered stems behind them. After 

 following up to the top of the sprout they 

 started on, they then separate, and go off on 

 to different branches of the bush. They live 

 about twenty-five or thirty days on the bush, 

 when they fal' to the ground, change to the 

 chrycalis form, work themselves into the 

 ground, and there remain until about the fir?t 

 of next June, when they reappear in the form 

 of a perfect miller, to repeat the operation of 

 the year before. 



My method of fighting these plagues is as 

 follows : — Keep close watch of the bushes af- 

 ter they are fully leaved out, examining very 

 closely the lower leaves on the new shoots, 

 and as soon as you see one that is perforated 

 with small holes, pick it and drop it into an 

 old pail, and so go over all the bushes care- 

 fully every other day, as long as the worms 

 continue to hatch, which will be about two or 

 three weeks, and burning the leaves plucked. 

 Be sure and pick, each time going over the 

 bush, every leaf gnawed by the worms. I have 

 about seventy-five as fine bushes as you often 

 see, while most of the current bushes in this 



vicinity are entirely destroyed. I have had to 

 be vigilant and persevering, but I have con- 

 quered so far, which is some satisfaction, and 

 have all the nice currants I want to use. — 

 James M Warder, Bloomingdale, N. Y., in 

 Plattshurg Republican. 



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TO-MOERO^?«r. 



BY CHARLES SWAIN. 



Let to-morrow take care of to-morrow. 



Leave things of tbe future to Fate, 

 Whai'B the uee to anticipate Borrow ? 



Life's troubles come never too late. 

 If to hope overmuch be ar error, 



'Tis one that the wise have preferred — 

 And hdw often have hearts been in terror 



Of evils that — never occurred. 



Let to-morrow take care of to-morrow, 



Permit iiot suspicion ai.a care, 

 With invisible bonds to enchain thee — 



But boar vihat Ood g'.vts tbee to bear. 

 By His eiJirit supported and gladdened, 



Be ne'i.r by forebodings deterred; 

 But think how oft hearts have been saddened 



By fears of what — never occurred. 



Let to morrow take care of to-morrow, 



Short and dark tboueh our life may appear, 

 We may make it still shorter by sorrow, 



Still durker by folly and fear. 

 H jlf our tioubles are half our invention ; 



And how often, from bleeeings conferred, 

 Have we shrunk in the wild apprehension 



Of evils that never occurred. 



For the New England Farmer, 

 JUNE AKD ROSES. 

 We head our article on gardening for the 

 month with terms which seem to us nearly sy- 

 nonymous. The month and the Queen of Flow- 

 ers are most intimately associated in our mind, 

 for the rose is now in its fullest glory, and renders 

 the lowliest cottage a bower of beauty. Since 

 creation dawned, its praises have been sung. Sol- 

 omon chronicles its loveliness. Venus claimed it 

 as her flower. In the palmy days of Athenian re- 

 finement and Roman luxury, the rose was pre- 

 eminent among flowers. Altars were decked with 

 its sweet petals ; priests were crowned with its 

 garlands; and the milk white bull that bled in 

 honor of Jupiter was adorned with its buds and 

 blossoms. Enormous sums were expended upon 

 these fragrant flowers in the days of the Roman 

 Empire. Suetonius informs us that Nero paid 

 four million sesterces (.S'150,000) on roses for one 

 entertainment! The supper tables were covered 

 an inch in depth wi-th the leaves of the flower, the 

 apartments, porticoes and courtyards were strewn 

 with blossoms. The rose was dedicated to Har- 

 pocrates, the god of silence, and the peculiar 

 phrase "sub-rosa" is said to have originated from 

 this. Nero's fondness for the flower may have 



