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lencc of insects and worms in our grain and fruit trees is a serious evil. 

 It will increase if not more intelligently addressed. 



'* I hope you will appreciate my motives, and acquit me of trespassing." 



GOOSEBERRIES — MILDEW. 



Dr. Jansen, of Brunswick, Ulster county, N. Y., sends the following 

 remedy for preventing mildew on gooseberries, as practiced by Mr. Baker 

 of that place, who contends that mildew is caused by an excessive flow of 

 Bap ; so his remedy is : 



" Early in spring to take a large plow and plow deep very near the 

 bushes, so as to disturb and break up some of the lateral roots, thereby 

 diminishing the quantity of sap and preventing mildew. He says he has 

 followed the plan for the last seven years, and in all that time has never been 

 troubled with mildew. Has plenty of large and fair fruit, and his bushes 

 in a healthy and thrifty condition. Try it ; the remedy is simple and easy, 

 and the cure effectual and certain." 



Mr. Fuller. — The great advantage of this is that it helps to keep the 

 roots cool — that is all the secret in raising gooseberries. 



R. Gr. Pardee. — I saw, a few days since, in the garden of Charles Down- 

 ing, at Newburgh, some 20 varieties of gooseberries, all perfectly healthy. 

 He finds no diflSiculty in cultivating the most tender sorts. 



FLOWERS. 



In a miscellaneous talk about flowers, it was conceded that the hollyhock 

 of improved sorts is the handsomest flower now in bloom. 



R. G. Pardee. — The finest hollyhock I ever saw came from a seed I gave 

 a young man two years ago, it is crimson, and made up of a great number 

 of little flowers in one. I recommend every one to save seeds of these 

 flowers wherever they are to be had from handsome flowers, and plant them 

 at once this fall, and they will flower next year. 



Mr. Meigs imported seeds of the highly improved hollyhock, from Lon- 

 don, in 1825, and dahlia seed also. Planted them alternate about three 

 feet apart. There flowers intermixed thus with the dahlias presented a 

 splended floral assemblage, so attractive to butterflies that they came in 

 great numbers to join what seemed a national butterfly convention, I took 

 a broken raisin between my lips, and taking care to hold my breath, 

 approached large butterflies, some of whom got off the dahlias on to my 

 nose and sucked the raisin. They became familiar and several perched on 

 my hat and shoulder while I was hoeing. 



Andrew S. Fuller. — The bulbs of lilies are made up of scales, in layers. 

 If these are pulled apart, and set in pots in a gentle heat, each will grow 

 and produce as good a plant as the whole bulb. Some of the hardiest 

 bulbs served in this way will grow out of doors. I have divided a bulb, 

 such as some gardeners charge three dollars for, and made twenty dollars 

 worth of plants from it, as good as though I had made them each from ong 

 of these costly bulbs. The bulb of the grandular does not reproduce 

 flowers, if left in the ground. Take it up, and you will find a great num- 

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