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well-known tin boxes, which are filled with fresh olive oil, tightly 

 solden, thrown into hot water, and finally packed in boxes holding 

 100 each. In the arrondissement of Quimper 10,000 women and 

 children are employed in this business, Concarneau boasting of the 

 most extensive establishments. 



New Remedies for the Phylloxera. — M. Gachez, in a recent 

 number of Comtes Rendus, states that after long and patient research he 

 has become convinced that by planting rows of red maize between rows of 

 grape-vine, the latter are shielded from the ravages of the Phylloxera, 

 the insects abandoning the vine roots for the roots of the maize. M. 

 Gachez tried this method upon vines, the roots of which, last Spring, 

 were 'covered with these insects; in September, the most careful exam- 

 ination failed to detect a single one on the vines. The roots of maize 

 planted in a field alongside the vine-yard did not present any trace of 

 the phylloxera. 



M. Pignede found an effectual remedy in digging, during March and 

 April, a trench four inches deep around his infested vines, and throwing 

 in 500 grammes (1.1025 pounds) of slacked lime. He then white- 

 washed the vine after having removed its bark. The operation, he 

 declares, destroys the greater part of the insects and their eggs, and 

 arrested the hatching of the eggs already deposited upon the vines. 

 The first year afterwards the vines gave out vigorous shoots, and the 

 second year fine grapes in large quantities. 



Fungi. — As it is sometimes desirable to preserve specimens of fungi 

 for future and more convenient examination Mr. C. W. Quin, in a late 

 number of T7ie Garden, recommends the following mixture as suitable 

 for the purpose: Sulphuric acid, 2 pints ; water, 8 pints ; mix and add 

 creosote, 1 pint. Bottle the fungi in this and cork tightly. It is said 

 to preserve them perfectly without change of color. Fungi may also 

 be preserved by drying, by bedding them in silver sand, gills upward, 

 in tin boxes, and placing them in a slow oven for two or three hours. 



Curious Fact Concerning a Frog. — A short time since a lad 

 here wished to eject a large frog from an outhouse, and to do so he took 

 up a large steel file that was lying near, and just touched the frog with 

 its blunt point, but not to hurt it. The frog, however, emitted a 

 singular scream, as though in pain, and continued to do so each time 

 that it was touched by the file. My attention having been drawn to thi s? 



