200 TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



time is required to make it tender and good, so' that hulled corn needs 

 stewing a whole day, good coarse hominy full six hours, and meal for bread 

 should be scalded and allowed to stand awhile before baking, and then 

 baked long. In cooking hominy put on a good pot at a time, so as not to 

 have the fuss for nothing. Put it into the water it is to be boiled in over 

 niglit; boil pretty briskly for two or three hours, keeping in plenty of 

 water. After this time let the fire run low, or set the pot on top of the 

 stove, and let it coodle two or three hours longer, keeping at boiling heat 

 all the time. Add no water toward the last, but let it thicken up as much 

 as will do without scorching, then finish by stirring in carefully wheat or 

 rye flour till about as thick as it can be stirred." 



Mr. J. K. Davis, Bradford, Vt., asks information about fruit growing in 

 New Jersey. He says: "I have been informed that apple trees do not 

 thrive well in New Jersey on account of a large yellow worm that eats up 

 into the trruik of the tree, and that whole orchards are often killed in thia 

 way. Is there any remedy for this, and what is it?" 



Dr. Trimble replied that there are some orchards in New Jersey infeoted 

 with borers, but no more so than in any other State. They are the great 

 pests of all orchards, and have killed n)any trees. I have a section of one 

 not more than five inches in diameter, that has twenty holes through it. 

 Their period of existence is three 3'ears. The first j'ear they work near the 

 bark, girdling the tree, which causes the greatest damage. They are then 

 •easily found and removed by probing with annealed wire. The second year 

 they work inward and upward. The third year they come back again to 

 the bark, where the transformation takes place. They work in all kinds 

 of trees, and are often sent from nurseries into sections where they were 

 not before known. It is very easy to discover trees affected by borers, as 

 their chips are always exhibited upon the ground. It is very hard to find 

 the beetles. No person need hesitate to settle in New Jersey on account 

 of the apple borer. They do destroy orchards and will destroy them 

 wherever they are not attended to. Mr. Davis also wants to know if there 

 is an}'' remedy for wild onions, which he is told infest the pastures of New 

 Jersey. 



Flower Seeds and Flower Culture. 



Mr. Wm. R Prince sent in for distribution the following flower seeds: 

 Aste)- Furpurascens — Perennial purple aster. 

 Bignonia Coccinea — Scarlet Trumpet Creeper. 

 Lythrum Salicaria — European purple Lytlirum. 

 Amorpha Fruticosa — Blue Flowered Amorpha. 



Information for Missouri Emigrants. 



Mr. Philip W. Kohler, Hopewell Academy, Warren county. Mo., wrote a 

 letter to the Club some time since, ofiering to give information to persons 

 desirous of emigrating to that State. lie says he has been overwhelmed 

 witij letters since he was thus advertised in TJie Tribune. He now asks 

 the privilege of making a few general statements to this Club which may 

 serve as information to those who desire it, 



" Warren county is about the tliiid in size in the State, Tiie war has 



