LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. 
INSECTS ON CARNATIONS. 
We built our greenhouses eight years ago. 
The first year we bought carnations from two 
different parties; one set did splendidly, the 
other apparently much the finest plants, died 
out before the winter was half over. We have 
bad more or less trouble with our carnations 
ever since, although we gave up propagating from 
our own, and have bought from different places 
hoping to be rid of the trouble. The plants 
begin to look badly and on examining them, 
they drop off just at the crown, as if rotted off; 
but on looking at them with the microscope 
they seem to be eaten, and on slitting up the 
stalk we find transparent white worms very 
active, but our microscope is not powerful 
enough to show them eating; also a small white 
insect, the body round, of a pearly lustre with 
brown legs and antenna. Many persons are 
troubled in the same way but cannot tell us any 
remedy. We have tried a variety of things for 
their destruction, but as yet have not been suc¬ 
cessful. A. & M. A. Husband. 
(Whocan throw light upon this subject?) 
A PREVENTIVE FOR APPLE TREE BORERS. 
of laborers here are colored. Farm laborers re¬ 
ceive 50 cts. per day for men, 35 to 40 cts. for 
women. Boys from 16 to 18 years old get from 
$4 to $6 per month. Grown hands get from $7 
to $10 per month according to quality. 
Land is worth from $2 to $20 per acre accord¬ 
ing to location and quality. Good pine land can 
be bought for about three dollars per acre. 
Churches and schools are plenty and convenient. 
Climate very mild. 
There is no desirable government land here, 
though there is plenty, it is of poor quality. We 
would be glad to have you visit our State; we 
are always ready to welcome our brethren of the 
North, for we find them good, reliable citizens. 
I forgot to state wages of carpenters, etc. Good 
mechanics get about $2.50 per day. 
I think it would pay to raise cabbage plants 
here for sale, but it is too late in season now. 
Could they be ready to sell about March 1st to 
March 10, would be in demand. S. H. Strom. 
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cents. PRATT & CO., Soutlivllle, Mass. 
In New England, and for aught I know, still 
further west, the fruit trees are much injured by 
a worm that bores into the trees near the ground. 
A year or two since an advertisement was “going 
the rounds” of an application for sale to prevent 
the ravages of the borers. Now every farmer 
has a good preventive on his own farm. It is 
this: About the last of May, before the perfect 
insect lays the egg that produces the borers, take 
strong stable manure and press it around the 
body of the tree with the foot. For a tree not 
larger than a fork handle, one forkful is suffi¬ 
cient. For a tree a foot in diameter two or three 
times as much is required. I have used it suc¬ 
cessfully on both peach and apple trees, even 
when the borers had got into the trunk, but in 
that case I used more manure, and covered the 
holes well. Don’t use manure that is fine and 
dry. T. J. Youngs. 
Union, Conn. 
FROM THE LAND OF FLOWERS. 
Alamo, Fla., Apr. 1, 1884. 
Mr. I. F. Tillinghast: Dear Sir, The cabbage 
seed sent me were received. I found them very 
fine. 
In reply to your questions about Florida, I will 
say that I like the State very well. The price of 
labor varies in different places. The larger part 
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