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pended upon to impart color and freshness 
to the school-grounds from monthto month. 
These suggestions are practical, and are 
enforced by the obvious moral that it is as 
important for children to receive lessons in 
orderliness and natural beauty outside the 
doors as within the school-rooms. 
The ready objection will be offered that 
school-children are destructive little bar- 
barians who enjoy trampling on flowers and 
injuring shrubbery, and that it is impossi- 
ble to train them to respect and care for 
the surroundings of the buildings. This is 
a favorite argument with indolent teachers 
who assume that inherent depravity forms 
the subsoil of the child-nature, and that it 
is impracticable to enlist the sympathy and 
support of their scholars in keeping the 
school-grounds in order. The answer to 
this objection is that neglect and heedless- 
ness on the part of the teachers and officers 
of a school inevitably promote indifference 
on the part of the children. Let the im- 
portance and advantages of having the 
grounds as tidy, orderly and attractive as 
the interior of the building be enforced by 
the teachers, and the children will quickly 
learn to take pleasure and pride in the 
school-gardens. In the public parks great 
masses of variegated bloom are unmolested 
by boys and girls playing around them. 
This is because there are signs of orderli- 
ness and care and a sense of refreshment to 
the eyes which make an impression on the 
children’s minds. It will not be difficult to 
educate schoolboys to respect flower-bord- 
ers, window-boxes, vines and shrubbery, if 
teachers themselves will display intelligent 
interest and affection for the school-gardens. 
Complaints of ravages by the potato bug 
are this season unusually large from every 
section of the country, many districts have 
the pests in greater quantities this year 
than any since their first appearance. With 
little labor and slight expense their ill 
effects may be counteracted. A proper 
use of London purple, the cheapest of all 
insecticides, has never been known to fail 
in clearing the vines. 
In the Bulletin of the Ohio Agricultural 
Experiment Station, for March 1889. 
Clarence M. Weed gives the following: 
“The pest is so easily kept in check by the 
use of London purple or Paris green that it 
hardly pays to try any other method” One 
pound of the poison to 150 gallons of water 
is the mixture he advises and then adds, 
“Apply early; do not wait till the vines are 
three fourths eaten but kill off the first 
brood and the later broods will trouble you 
much less.” 
lUlssonri State Horticultural Society. 
The regular semi-annual meeting of this 
society will be held at Brookfield, Mo., on 
June 4, 5 and 6, 1889. Reduced rates on 
the railroads and at the hotels are offered. 
In connection with the meeting will be held 
a Strawberry and Cut Flower Show. J. C. 
Evans, President, Harlem. L. A. Good- 
man, Secretary, Westport. 
Natural Gas and tlie Plum Curculio. 
While engaged last year in running over 
the vast newspaper literature of the subject 
of remedies for the Plum Curculio, we 
noticed several statements to the effect 
that in the natural gas regions the plum 
trees were not infested by Curculio, and 
the same statement was made to us person- 
ally by a gentleman from Warren, Pa. 
whose address we have mislaid. The matter 
was considered interesting as a mere inci- 
dent though the evidence was distrusted. 
We are therefore interested in a recent item 
published by Mr. Snead Thomas, in Popular 
Gardening for May, to the effect that June 
Bugs almost defoliated some young fruit 
trees by the north side of his house in the 
full glare of a torch not a hundred feet 
away, and that a neighbor piped gas to his 
plum trees and kept it burning at night, 
letting the gas escape during the day, with 
no success in lessening the numbers of the 
stung fruit. He mentions however the 
enormous numbers of insects burned to 
death by the torches and attributes the 
almost annihilation of the tomato worm to 
the destruction of its moth in this way. L. 
O. Hcward. 
Is there a grape closely resembling the 
Salem in appearance, and put on the market 
as Salem, which yet is quite different? Or 
does the Salem differ greatly in quality in 
different localities? As I grow it, the Salem 
is one of the best and earliest grapes though 
rarely making well-filled clusters. But 
grapes I have bought as Salem were un fit 
to eat, having a very unpleasantly tasting 
skin, and nothing of the flavor and peculiar 
meatiness I find in my own. 
I find that many question the insecticide 
power of lime so highly recommended b\ 
Peter Henderson for the small cabbage root 
worm, and as a destroyer of the angle 
worm, not only in pots and frames but 
in the open ground. It is not a real exter- 
ninator ; but when seasonably and freely 
applied I have always found it very useful. 
Unleachd ashes is still better, but much 
more costly , as to be effective it must be 
applied an eight of an inch deep, all over 
the land, and well washed in. Dr J. H. 
Hoskins. 
Tlie Dloorestown Agricultural and In- 
dustrial Society. 
The Tenth Annual Exhibition of this so- 
ciety will be held on Thursday, Friday and 
Saturday, June 6th, 7th and 8th, 1889, on 
the grounds of the society at Moorestown, 
Burlington Co., N. J. EdmcndCook, Pres- 
ident. B. H. Gillingham, Secretary. 
Queens County Agricultural Society. 
The Twenty-third Summer Exhibition of 
this society will be held at the Fair Grounds, 
Mineola, Long Island, N. Y., on Wednesday 
and Thursday, June 19th and 20th, 18i9. 
Whilst its title is that of an agricultural so- 
ciety, the horticultural exhibits are usually 
very fine, the display of flowers and straw- 
berries especially being large and admir- 
able. Charles Post, President. Jacob 
Hicks, Secretai'y. 
American Association of Nurserymen. 
The Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the 
society will be held at the Grand Pacific 
Hotel, Chicago, 111., June 5th and 6th. Re- 
d uced fares are granted by the railroads 
and reduced rates at the hotel. This is a 
good opportunity to visit the great Western 
metropolis as the reduced railroad fare to 
Chicago and return, from any part of the 
United States, is offered to all who attend 
the meeting, whether nurserymen or not. 
Programmes of the proceedings may be ob- 
tained from the secretary, Charles A. Green, 
Rochester, N. Y., and such other informa- 
tion as may be desired. 
Our Book Table. 
Our Insect Foes and How to Destroy Them.— A lit- 
tle pamphlet of 62 pages with notes on injurious insects 
and the remedies to be employed, a list of insecticides 
and how to use them, etc. Published by P. C. Lewis, 
Catskill, N. Y. 
Postal Directory.— A complete little handbook of 
postal rates, laws and regulations, alphabetically ar- 
ranged for all who use the mails. Compiled from offi- 
cial sources and published by The Evening Post, 
New York, N. Y. Pi ice 15 cents. 
New Jersey State Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
tion.— Ninth Annual Report. For the year 1888. Geo. 
H. Cook, Director, New Brunswick, N. J. 
New York Agricultural Experiment Station — 
Seventh Annual Report. For the year 1888. Peter 
Collier, Director, Geneva, N. Y. 
U. S. Department of Agriculture, Division of 
Chemistry, Bulletin No. 20. Record of experiments 
conducted by the Commissioner of Agriculture in the 
manufacture of sugar from sorghum by H. W. Wiley, 
Chemist. 
Annual Report of the Board of Trade of Augusta. 
Maine.— E. C. Allen, President. Treby Johnson, 
Secretary. 
U. S. Department of Agriculture. Section of Veg- 
etable Pathology. Quarterly Bulletin, March, 1889. 
The Journal of Mycology: devoted to the study of Fun- 
gi, especially in their relation to plant diseases. B. F. 
Galloway, Chief of the Section, Washington, D. C. 
Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Bul- 
letin No. 5. New Series. J. S. Newman, Director, 
Auburn. Ala. 
Hand-book of Albemarle County, Virginia, giving 
a describtion of its topography, climate, etc., etc. Also 
description and history of the Miller Manual Labor 
School. Edited by W. H. Seamon, Crozet, Va. Pub- 
lished by Wtn. H. Prout, Chai Ioitesville, Va. 
Coi nell University. Bulletin V of the Agricultur- 
al Experiment Station. April, 1889. I. On the pro- 
duction of lean meat in mature animals. II. Does 
heating milk affect the quality or quantity of butter. 
New Jersey Agricultural College Experiment Sta- 
tion. Bulletin 52. What are the worst weeds of New 
Jersey? By Byron II. Halsted, Botanist. Bulle- 
tin 53. Prices of Nitrogen, Phosphoric Acid and Pot- 
ash. Bulletin 54. potash as a Fertilizer. By Edward 
B. Voorhees, Ass’t Chemist. Bulletin 55. Entomo- 
logical Suggestions and Inquiries. By John B. Smith. 
Special Bulletin C. Pollen versus Rain. By Byron 
D. Halsted, Botanist and Horticulturist. 
Premium Schedule of the Moorestown Agricultur- 
al and Industrial Society, offered at the Society’s Ex- 
hibition at that place on June 6th, 7th and 8th, next. 
Free upon application to the Secretary. 
Schedule of Premiums offered for competition at 
the Summer Exhibition of the Queens County Agri- 
cultural Society, Mineola, N. Y., June 19 and 20. 
Sent free to all applicants. 
U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture. Section of V, g- 
etable Pathology. Bulletin No. 10. Report on the 
experiments made in 1888 in the treatment of the 
Downy Mildew ana Black Rot of the grape vine. B. F. 
Galloway, Chief of the Section. 
U. S. Department of Agriculture. Report of the 
Statistician. Report No. 62. Report of the condi- 
tion of winter grain and the progress of cotton plant- 
ing; also on the freight rates of transportation com- 
panies. J. R. Dodge, Statistician. 
