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Peaches. Now is the time to steal a march on the " borer." Remove a 

 little of the surface soil from about the roots of the trees, and if there is 

 much gumminess observable clear it away, and follow up the depredator, and 

 if possible put an end to his life. Prevention is better than cure. It is, 

 indeed, doubtful whether the cutting and paring practised by many in order 

 to find the worm, is not productive of more harm than good. Make a small 

 mound of wood or coal ashes, lime or coal dust, round the stem, which will 

 have a tendency to prevent the insects from doing further injury. Blistered 

 leaves frequently make their appearance, and are generally considered to be 

 occasioned by green fly. We consider these to proceed from sudden and 

 extreme changes of the temperature, having observed its appearance when 

 no fly was visible. 



Disbudding. Where trees are growing very luxuriantly the extreme 

 points of young shoots should now be pinched out, and any young shoot 

 that makes its appearance where it is not wanted should be rubbed off. — 

 Trees can be managed in this way so as to render winter pruning a trifling 

 operation. We hope to live to see the time when all pruning will be per- 

 formed during summer. 



Mulching. This is a very important and necessary operation, especially 

 on young and newly planted trees. A layer of short grass, manure, hay or 

 straw, laid over the roots, will prevent rapid evaporation, and keep an equa- 

 ble degree of moisture in the soil, and answer a better purpose than frequent 

 applications of water. S. B. 



Glazing Sashes without Putty. — In your "Retrospective View of the 

 Progress of Horticulture for 1852," you speak of a writer in the Philadel- 

 phia Florist, who thinks the mode of glazing without puttying the glass, is 

 new, and should be called "American." Whether you were the first to adopt 

 it in this country or not, I cannot say; but this I do know, that it neither 

 originated with you, nor with the writer in the Philadelphia Florist. The 

 mode has been practised, to my knowledge, over twenty years in England, 

 and some of the handsomest hothouses in that country are glazed in that man- 

 ner. I remember a carpenter making a number of hotbed sashes and glaz- 

 ing them in this manner, some twenty years ago; but the gardener for whom 

 they were made, refused to have them, and the carpenter had to take them 

 back and putty in the glass. The system has never found much favor with 

 builders of hothouses, more from a w r ant of a thorough knowledge of the pro- 

 per manner of doing it than anything else ; and I have never employed a 

 glazier in this country to whom I have not had to explain this method of set- 

 ting glass, before they would commence with the work. The method has 



