SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
3.51 
and one on each fruit tree; make a mixture of cobalt dis- 
solved in water, one pint; molasses, a half pint, and pour 
a wineglassful in each bottle. Efnpty out the bugs, flies, 
&c., once or twice a week, as they accumulate, and re- 
plenish the bottles. This will accomplish part of the bat 
tie. You may now drive down a good stake in the centre 
of your garden, say three feet high; on the td^ of this 
nail a platform of planks, say thirty inches square ; cover 
this an inch or two deep with sand. Now instruct your 
gardener to build a lightwood fire on this every niglA dur- 
ing the season in which you see the moths, millers or but 
t^rflies infesting your grounds. If you will observe you, 
Avill find them fly into this fire in large numbers, and be 
consumed. 
V'ou should, also, during the cold freezing weather of 
winter, have yoiw garden soil frequently turned over and 
exposed to frost — the more frequently this is done, the bet- 
ter. This will be about all you can do in a general way. 
You must now come to particulars. For cabbages, notlgng 
will wholly supetcede the necessity for the operation ol 
worming iliem. 
This should be done dwily^ and is by no means so great 
an undertaking as one might at first suppose. The elderly 
lady who weeded her cranium hut once a year, found it a 
terrible spot of work. Those whose heads are treated to 
that lu.xury daily, find no such diflb'ulty. Well, you break - 
off an under leaf from each cabbage and fJace it on top of 
the head. In the morning, bright and early, visit your 
garden, and if there is any worms about your plants you 
will find most, if not all, on this detached leaf. Provide 
yourself with a p»an of good soap-suds and a brush nr 
large feather; lift off these leaves atid brush the worms 
into your pan. Should you see any others on the plant, 
treat them in like manner. This plan is infallible, mid 1 
have found no other answer ns well. 
For vines and young plants, I have tried soot, sulphur, 
lime, plaster, &c., sometimes with succe.^s, but ofiener 
without. 1 am of opinion the best thing tlv<t can lie dust 
ed over young filants is a common article of Scotch :»nulf 
This may be put in a tin cup or mustard bo.x and^i small 
piece ol gauze of any kind tied over the top. Tints armed, 
dust the snuflTightly over your plants. 
Get a few pounds of guano ; prepare tlie gunno-whter 
as suggested frequently in back numbers of the CuUii^it >r ] 
wafer your plants with this, say, once a week. The 
small quantity of ammonia which this contains is olmoxi- 
ous to insects, but the dose is so it^finitessiiual as m he 
scarcely worth taking into the account of remedies. You 
will experience a full compensation, however, in the in- 
creased vigor of your plants. 
My camphor remedy, whicli I have not yet fully test- 
ed, but which I consider a valuable one, is this: — Put 
into a barrel a quarter of a pound of caniphor*in pieces, 
say, of the size ofa hickory nut; fill up with water; let it 
stand until next day; draw off as much as you may need 
to water your plants, and fill up the barrel again for next 
watering. The camphor will be slowly absorbed by ilip 
water and will probably last the whole season through. 
If you should find your camphor water too weak for your 
purpose you may add to your barrel of water a* cupful or 
more of strong ky. This will increase the solubility of 
the camphor and make the water stronger, and, of course, 
more offensive to insects. 
1 have another remedy of equal value. Procure from 
your Druggist one or two pounds of cheapest Cape Aloes; 
to one pound add one gallon of water and one pound of 
salereetus or pearlash, or what is equally as good, dissolve 
the pound of aloes in a gallon of ley. Of this solution add 
to a barrel of water, say, one pint ; mix thorougly and use 
as the camphor water. The solution of aloes in ley will 
be the proper wash for your fruit trees. The aloes should 
not cost you over 50 cents a pound ; camphor, ordinarily, 
about 50 ce\its ; it will now cost you probably 70 or 75 
cents. These are fhe usual prices with us. 
So mnph for experience. Now a little theory. If you 
would get your Druggist to procure for you 50 pourids of 
the cheapest arsenic; dust it over your manure pile and 
incorporate thoroughly, and thus lei it find its way info 
your garden soil, you will soon be rid, in a great degree, 
of these pests. It should be laid down to you at 10 cents 
a pound, or at most* 1 5 cents. Don’t be afraid of poison- 
ing yourself or family after it gets’into the manure pile. 
Vegetation does not take up arsenic from the soil, and if 
you should chance to have a dirt-eater an»ong*your gang, 
he would hardly poison himself after the first year’s culti- 
vation of the soil. I 
Were I situated as you are, I should, by all mean?, 
adopt the three 'general remedies indicated above as the 
main feature, and one or mgre of the special remedies as 
your time and inclination may dictate. Those ofa general 
character will, in a few years of perse\*ering elfort, rid 
yourself and your near neighbors^of the necessity for the 
special ones. R. B. 
Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 1855. ) 
{fornicrly. Runic, Ga.) 3 
Rkm.arks. — T his is a capital article! Plain, direct, 
pointed and practical. No opening for a single stricture 
from our fiiceiious and caustic friend, “Grkf..m IIou.n.” 
We trust “R, B.” will favor us with many more “ol the 
same sort.” — Eds. , 
THS V/ARKER and HEIUJEMONI’S ISADEERA 
GRAPE VINE?. 
Editors Southrrn Cultivator — The Warren Grape 
is now attracting considerable attention from amateurs 
and nurserymen,*, bqth *as a table and Avine grape. Its 
hardiness, great prolifii.Micss and eminent qualities for the 
table, render it a dcserving’favoriic with those who are so 
fortunate as to be acquainted with its qualities. 1 have 
lately received letters from the most distinguished wine- 
makers and grape-culiurists of Ohio, who seem to be in 
doubt as to its true identity. Some suppo.se it to be the 
same as tire HerbeiTumt’s Madeira, while others contend that 
it is dift'erent. ]Mr. Downing says that it Avas brouglit 
into notice by Mr. Prince, of FJushing, Long Island. I 
have always understobd that it was taken from the woods 
in Georgia. “Who shall decide when doctors disagree 
Mr. Downivg, also, supposes that it may prove identical 
with the Lenoir and Tdissouri Grape. Of the latter I know- 
nothing; ionly fram the iot'/cs) but if the Lenoir, with 
which I am acquainted, be genuine, (and I believe it is) 
there is a striking difference in many respects. 
Now, the object of this esmmunioation is to get at the 
true origin and history of those two grapes, viz: the War- 
rcJi or Warrenton, and the Hcrbeniont’s Madeira, and let 
it be no longer a mooted question. 
For the sake of Horticulture and Ponnilogy, I earnestly 
hope that you, Messrs. Editors, and all others avIio know 
anything of these grapes, that Avill shed light upon theii' 
origin and history, Avill speak out through the Cultivator 
How are we to do more for Fruit-Culture than by a 
proper and correct classification of Southern Fruits, and 
correcting their heretofore very imperfect nomenclature X 
Yours, W. H. Thurmond. 
Atlanta, Ga., Oct., 1855. 
