destroy them. They seem to infest certain 
parts of an orchard from year to year 
while other parts are comparatively 
exempt. Low grounds have been more in¬ 
fested with me than higher parts of the 
orchard. A man can usually examine and 
kill all eggs and borers in five hundred or 
more trees per day, if the ground has been 
properly prepared, and no work in any 
orchard is more absolutely necessary. 
A Housekeepers’s Tragedy. 
i NE day as I wandered I heard a complaining-, 
mg |v And saw a poor women the picture of gloom; 
111 Ji She glared at the mud on the door-step (’twas 
raining,) 
And this was her wail as she wielded her broom: 
•‘Oh, life is a toil and love is a trouble, 
And beauty will fade and riches will flee, 
And pleasures they dwindle and prices they double. 
And nothing is what I could wish it to be !” 
•‘There’s too much of worriment goes to a bonnet, 
There's too much of ironing goes to a shirt, 
There’s nothing that pays for the time wasted on it, 
There’s nothing that lasts but trouble and dirt.” 
•‘In March it is mud, it's slush in December, 
And midsummer’s breezes are laden with dust; 
In fall the leaves litter, in muggy September 
The wall-paper rots and the flat-irons rust.” 
“There are worms in the cherries, and slugs in the 
roses, 
And ants in the sugar, and mice in the pies. 
The rubbish of spiders, no mortal supposes, 
And ravaging roaches and damaging flies." 
"It's sweeping at six and dusting at seven, 
It’s victuals at eight and dishes at nine, 
It’s potting and panning from ten to eleven, 
We scarce break our fast ere we plan howto dine.” 
"With grease and with litter from outside to center, 
Forever at war and forever alert, 
No rest for a day lest the enemy enter, 
I spend my whole time in a struggle with dirt. 
“Last night in my dreams, I was stationed forever 
On a bare little isle in the midst of the sea, 
>Iy one chance of life was a ceaseless endeavor 
To sweep off the waves, ere they swept over me.” 
“Alas 1 ’twas no dream—again I behold it, 
I yield, I am helpless my fate to avert.” 
She rolled down her sleeves, her apron she folded. 
Then laid down and died, and was buried in dirt. 
From Garden Talks. 
Tomato Plants from Cuttings 
Have any of our frieuds ever tried to 1‘ctia* 
tomato plants from cuttings, and if so 
with what results ? Last fall (1881) we rooted 
a slip from a tomato-vine, which had es¬ 
caped the lirst frosts of the season, and at 
the same time we planted some seeds. The 
cutting is now quite a large plant, branched 
out and in full blossom, promising, 
fruit, whilst the seedlings are still small, 
without signs of either branch or blossom. 
From this experiment we conclude that, 
while all the numberless attempts during 
the last decade, to produce earlier bearing 
varieties of as good qualities as some of our 
best popular sorts possess, have proved to 
be failures, or nearly so, we may still look 
in another direction for attaining this end. 
so eagerly sought. Every florist knows 
that even small cuttings of lmuse plants 
some to bloom just as if they were not sev¬ 
ered from the parent plant and put on their 
own resources. Every branch or sucker of 
the tomato-vine produces blossoms with 
the tendency to bear fruit. Is it not 
reasonable to expect, that when 'turning 
such branch into an individual plant, this 
natural tendency is preserved, the same as 
it is in case of the geranium slip ? 
The problem of pushing the fruiting sea¬ 
son of this wholesome vegetable a week or 
two ahead, can, we have no doubt, be 
solved by the use of cuttings instead of 
seedlings. At any rata, we promise to sur¬ 
prise those of our friends, who are in the 
habit of buying our tomato plants, by 
offering to them the coming season more 
thrifty and stocky plants than they have 
ever bought, all branched out and ready 
for fruiting. 
A WRITER in the Fruit Recorder says he 
has discovered from practice that sulphur, 
one ounce to a gallon of water, and spi ink- 
led or syringed over grape vines, just at 
nightfall, will destroy insects and mildew 
and leave no bad show afterward. When 
sifted as a powder it has an unpleasant and 
often times injurious effect, although it is 
acknowledged a specific manui e of v alue, 
even when applied broadcast upon the soil. 
