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tical investigation. For our own part, we do not in 

 the least doubt that Col. Robertson has got upon 

 the right track, and that, not in Illinois, nor even in 

 Northern New York, nor in Lower Canada, but in 

 the interior of Russia and Siberia are to be found 

 the nurserias which will supply our fruit growers 

 with the future orchards of Minnesota. — St. Paul, 

 Minn., Times. 



Fruits for the South. — A correspondent of 

 the Southern Cnltimtor says: " Southern seedling 

 fruit trees should always be preferred by our people. 

 He recommends the Red Astrachan, the Kentucky 

 Queen, the Magnum, the Bachelor and the Shock- 

 ley, and then recommends the following, most of 

 which are not Southern : 



Of Fears— i\\Q Madeleine, Bartlett, Belle Lucra- 

 tive and Dnchesse. 



Of P^^^'/if.s-— Hale's Early, the Tillotson, Early 

 Crawford, Chinese Cling,'George the IV., Wilson's 

 Sepreraber, Nix's Late, Cherry's November. 



Of Grapes — the Clinton, Concord and Scupper- 

 no ng. 



Of the Berries— the Wilson's Albany, Long- 

 worth's Prolific and Triomphe de Gand. 



Gros Colman Grapes,— We were presented to- 

 day by Mr. Lamont, gardener to Mr. Zug, at Oak- 

 land, a specimen of the finest grapes we have ever 

 had the pleasure of examining. They are of the 

 kind known as the "Gros Colman," and some idea 

 of their immense size may be gathered from the fact 

 that one little bunch of four grapes weighed an 

 ounce, and another of eighteen grapes, four ounces. 



Pittsburg Pine-apples. — We have a gentle- 

 man in our midst who has for years grown tropical 

 fruits, and whose Greenhouses now contain speci- 

 mens of fruit not exceeded in size or flavor by any 

 ever produced in the tropics or elsewhere. We 

 refer to C. Zug, Esq., of Oakland, who was the 

 first to attempt the cultivation of the pine apple 

 here, and who has now brought it to a degree of 

 perfection, the extent of which can only be appreci- 

 ated by seeing and trying the fruit itself Mr. La- 

 mont, who is Mr. Zug's gardener, and a most expe- 

 rienced gentleman in his profession, showed us some 

 splendid specimens of the fruit yesterday, which ta- 

 king the season of the year into account, were some- 

 thing to boast of Pine apples in December, and 

 grown at home, are certainly a novelty, but Mr La- 

 mont knows his business, and anything in the fruit 

 line that he cannot raise is not worth cultivating. — 

 Pittsburg Dispatch. 



yorpjgn InfpUigpnrf. 



Red Spider. — Continued from page 94. 



Should it not be desirable to syringe, or if plants 

 are attacked to which the soap solution would be 

 injurious, a good remedy is to make the floors, 

 walls, &c., wet by syringing them without wetiing 

 the foliage of the plants or trees (this should be 

 done on shutting up the house), half filling pots 

 that will hold 1 J pecks with fresh unslacked lime, 

 and then filling up with water, and scattering on 

 this one ounce of sulnhur vivum. Two pots will 

 be suSicient for a house 30 feet long, 18 feet wide, 

 and of an average height ; but if high, three will 

 be necessary. The heat of the lime will cause ra- 

 pid evaporation, and the fumes of the sulphur are 

 carried along with the water, and, unless sulphur 

 be votalized, it is worse than useless as a destroyer 

 of red spider. The plants should be syringed in 

 the morning ; but in the case of Grapes coloring, 

 fruit ripening, or plants being in flower, doing so 

 would prove disastrous. An application of this 

 kind should be made once a week, or twice if the 

 attack is severe. This remedy, it should be re- 

 membered, must not be used until the leaves have 

 attained their full size and become somewhat firm, 

 otherwise they will be disfigured. It is more eff"ec- 

 tual when a good syringing follows, as the insects, if 

 not stifled, are so sick as to be easily washed ofl". 



Another method, in whi h it is not absolutely 

 necessary to syringe the plants, consists in making 

 the hot-water pipes so hot that the hand, when 

 placed on them, cannot bear the heat more than a 

 minute, and, after closing the house, to coat them 

 with sulphur brought to the consistency of paint 

 with water in which soft soap has been dissolved at 

 the rate of four ounces to the gallon. The paint 

 thus formed should be applied from end to end of 

 the pipes or flues, and be slightly syringed until 

 the house is full of steam, and, unless the fumes of 

 the sulphur are strong enough to drive the opera- 

 tor out of the house, they will not destroy red 

 spider. This remedy, like the preceding, must not 

 be employed unless the foliage is somewhat mature, 

 as in the case of the fruit approaching maturity or 

 becoming ripe. Two applications will, in most 

 cases, prove effectual. 



The last remedy which I have to note is sprin- 

 kling the floors, walls, &c., morning and evening, 

 with four ounces of Peruvian guano dissolved in a 

 gallon of water, and especially at the time of shut- 

 ting up the house. The atmosphere is thus large- 



