fje iarkner's llardljlg. 



ware too, loses its leaves a month sooner than it 

 ought. It occurs every year ; does this happen in 

 Philadelphia? The Koger's Hybrids on the whole 

 are the best grapes I have, both as regards, hardi- 

 ness, vigor and quality of fruit. No. 3 I think the 

 best, as prolific as the Delaware, it is more than 

 twice as large and to my taste quite as good." 



[Within the last ten years, we are sure $40,000, 

 has been spent on Delaware grapes, within a circle 

 of ten miles of us, but we doubt whether the offer 

 of $40,000 next fall, for 40 bushels of Delaware 

 grapes from the district would produce them. Very 

 much money has been spent also on lona, and we 

 are sorry to say with not much promise so far.] 



Names of Plants. — Hmgham, Mass. — The 

 numbers have mostly got loose from the the names. 

 3 is Neirembergia gracilis, 4.Polygala oppositifolia, 

 2 Ardisia crenulata. 



Paw paw. — P. — ^We do not know any authority 

 for this orthography. Thepapawo^ tbe Westlndes 

 is Carica pax>aya^ and the fruit of our North Amer- 

 ican plant Anona or Forcdia triloba, has in some 

 way been connected with this and hence its name. 

 It is Fapaw, not Paw paw. But why not write to 

 the journal wherein the term is used ? It is none 

 of our busing ss. 



New Roses at the South. — Mr. Berckmans, 

 Angusta^ 6^a., writes: Jmperatrice Eugenie, [Ry- 

 brids remontant of 1866,) is a hybrid, showing trace 

 of Bourbons, but the Noisette predominates ; it is 

 an exquisite flower, b, autifully cupped, with center 

 petals anemone form, of a fresh blush white and 

 very free bloomer. 



Abraham Lincoln, is the darkest flower yet intro- 

 duced, its form is globular and is of a very dark car- 

 mine maroon, shaded purple. At first it i as some 

 resemblance to Arthur de Sansal, but it difters 

 in form ; the latter being a flat, imbricated flower, 

 and several shades. Mme. Emile Bogua is a very 

 large, well made flower of a delicate waxy blush. 

 Bertha Lerique is very large and full, somewhat in 

 the style of Caroline de Sansal of which T should take 

 it to be a seedling. Comte Alphonse de Seringe is 

 a seedling of Gen. Jacqueminot of a very fresh dark 

 HI ,c pink and quite distinct; but I mu.-^t stop this 

 rambling letter. If you wouM hke some notes on the 

 best new roses, I will give them with pleasure. 



Oranges in East Florida.—^ New York 

 Cor nsjxju dent says: I have just returned from 

 Florida. What a splendid climate it is. CO" at 7 



A. M., and 75° to 80° at noon, in March. The trans- 

 ition from New York in January, with its piles of 

 snow and ice, was infinitely delightful, the return 

 supremely horrible, and came near using me up. 



" It would only make your mouth water if I was 

 to describe the oranges of East Florida, therefore I 

 refrain. But it is a fact, we don't know here, at 

 the North, what a perfect orange is." 



Winter or Summer Pruning— .4ri Illinois 

 Correspondent asks : " The different effects of win- 

 ter and summer pruning seem to be understood. 



Is it the same in root pruning? Will they, too, 

 renew their growth more rapidly, if cut back, in 

 winter than summer ? I am very anxious to know. " 



Insects on the Tulip Tree — K , Boston, writes: 



" I have a large number of tulip trees which 

 have been growing thrifty till within three or four 

 years, since which they have been visited by a scaly 

 kind of an insect about the size of what is common 

 ly known as ^ lady -bug.'' These insects are more 

 flat however, and fasten themselves, in companies 

 of hundreds generally, to the under side of the 

 branches, and the trees become completely coated 

 with a substance as black as charcoal, giving them 

 the appearance of having been painted with several 

 coats of lamp-black, and then been thoroughly 

 dusted over with soot. The trees are soon killed. 



"I have noticed plants of snowball near by as- 

 suming the same appearance. By cutting the trees 

 to the ground they throw up shoots that appear 

 healthy for one or two years. 



" I enclose a fragment of a branch, supposin::: it 

 possible that it may De new to you, and two or three 

 of last year's insects of small size, and shall feel 

 much obliged by any suggestion that will enable me 

 to get rid of the nuisance." 



[We have seen this before. It is a species of 

 coccus or scale insect, readily destroyed by syringing 

 or washing with water impregnated with coal oil, 

 or with common water heated to 140°.] 



Peaches in Boston— iT. — "The peach is so 

 uncertain about Boston that fov family use many 

 are trjdng pot or box culture, and intending to house 

 them in winter, in cellars, 



" Now, will trees on Peach stocks answer equally 

 well with those on plum stocks? Can you also in- 

 form me if peaches on plum stocks are liable to be 

 attacked by the yellows, which has swept off almost 

 all our peaches for the last twenty years. 



"lam tryitig the experiment of training them 

 horizontally near the ground, but my first experi- 



