MOORED RURAL NEW-YORKER 
iN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
The Black Cabbage Bug. — Can yon inform 
me, and perhaps others, how to protect cabbages 
and cauliflowers from the small black bug. I have 
tried snuff which answers at first, but the first 
shower washes it off, and then they are after them 
The bug of which I speak, is very small— 
“ A word from the wise” 
A SUBSCRIBER. 
troublesome 
over the youDg plants 
I ii.iv liUUK WiTH AN AMBHOTYFIST. 
Look a few seconds into the brass tube attach¬ 
ed to that square box, on three legs, into which 
«ie operator has put a little piece of glass with 
some chemicals on it Be stilt There, it is over. 
Ibe operator has closed the tube, took out the 
little piece of glass, and gone into his dark room. 
In a few moments he comes out with a fine picture. 
It looks as natural as life. Each feature perfect 
and distinct, even to the slight pucker of the 
mouth, occasioned by the effort to keep from smil¬ 
ing. The brow, lips, chin, good-natured smile, 
are all there. Now, let us see how it was done. 
. don’t think it, necessary for me to describe the 
little box, called a camera, into which theooeratnr 
We are not about to urge upon our readers the 
importnnce of Public Parks. We do not design to 
show that they are necessary to the health and 
comfort of the inhabitants of cities, or that they 
increase their prosperity and add to the value of 
the property. All this, perhaps we might show 
very clearly should we endeavor to do so. At 
present we have another object; and that isto urge 
upon all interested the proper care of already ex¬ 
isting publiu grounds. Almost every city and 
village of any size has one or more Parks. These 
have been established to make the town healthful 
and beautiful —pleasant for the inhabitants, and 
attractive to straugcra. Now, we would ask our 
readers candidly, if after all tho outlay in the pur¬ 
chase of land, Ac., one park in a thousand answers 
the pnrpose for which it is designed. With the 
exception of a very few in our largest cities in¬ 
stead of being a credit to the places where they 
exist, they are a disgrace, an eye-sore to every per¬ 
son of taste. 
No one need to be astonished at this result, when 
we couaider how these Parks are got np. On de¬ 
termining to establish a “ Square,” the ground is 
either purchased by the corporation, or donated 
again. ' 
sometimes called a louse, 
we hope will be sufficient. 
Remarks.— To keep off these little 
insects, scatter the snuff < 
every morning while they are moistened with the 
dew. Coal or leached ashes will do just as well.— 
If you put a low frame around the bed and cover 
it with gauze, it will keep them off. Water the 
plants when dry with liquid manure, and encourage 
their growth in every possible way, for as soon as 
they are in the rough leaf they are safe. 
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Windsor Beans. —Will you please to inform 
me at what age the English Windsor Bean, is to 
be used, whether as striDg beans, or shelled when 
ripe.—W, W. 
Remarks.— The Windsor Bean is eaten shelled 
green, like Lima Beans. It is much used in Eng¬ 
land, especially by the laboring people; and in the 
agricultural districts. They are commonly called 
“ Broad Beans,” and “broad beans and bacon” is 
no mean dish. It does not succeed in thin nmin+^tT 
by some generous individual who foolishly im¬ 
agines it will be on ornament to the town. It is 
then plowed two or three inches deep, fenced, and 
a few of the forest trees most easily procured, are 
pul into holes in the ground, the man engaged in 
this work being very careful to put the right ends 
in the soil, and not to waste labor by making the 
holes too large. The Park is now finished. Half 
of the trees dio during the first summer, and more 
follow, the second. Others blow over, and Btand at 
a very improper angle for well disposed trees.— 
Occasionally one stands up seeming determined to 
but, unfortunately, the 
> out pigs, be- 
let us look at some things not explained in the 
books. I take it for granted, then, that you know 
all that is necessary about the camera. Let ua take 
a picture also. 
1 ake up this piece of glass, about three inches 
by four. Put some very finely pulverized rotten 
stone on if, and wet it with a little alcohol Then 
scour with a piece of white Canton flannel, until 
yon get the glass perfectly clean and dry. Upon 
this pour a thin film, oalled collodion. Then im¬ 
merse it in the bath, or silver solution, the collodion 
side up. Let it remain from one-half to three 
minutes, until it looks smooth, and of a bluish- 
white color. Place it in the tablet , and then ex¬ 
pose it in the camera from five to thirty seconds._ 
The time will depend upon the power of the light 
and the quality of the silver solution. Then take 
it into the dark room. Immerse it in the develop¬ 
ing solution until faint outlines of the picture are 
seen. Take it out, and from a faucet let a stream 
of pure rain water run upon the collodion side, 
washing the ether side with your hand until the 
oily appearance disappears. Then immerse in the 
fixing solution, or pour this solution on it, until 
the bluish appearance is gone. Again wash in 
pure water ftrom the faucet, and stand it upon its 
edge to dry. If you wish to color the lips, use a 
little rouge on the collodion side. Then pour on 
the negative varnish in the same manner as you did 
the collodion, drain well, and dry with a spirit 
lamp; when pat on the black Japan, dry it, and put 
it in the case. 
Now you have gone through the process, let us 
see what the bath solution, etc., are composed of. 
Collodion .—This is made of gun cotton, alcohol 
and sulphuric ether. To make the gun cotton, use 
nitre, sulphuric acid and cotton. Powder the 
outlive all difficulties; 1 _* 
fence, never good enough to keep out pigs, be¬ 
comes broken, and the cattle get in and browse 
away at pleasure, always of course, selecting a 
thrifty tree if they can find one. The boys, too 
try their jack-knives, on the bark, and engrave 
their names very nicely, considering their youth 
and inexperience. This is the public park, as gen¬ 
erally seen—the ornamental grounds of your city 
or village, kind reader, we fear. 
Now, what should be done with such a Park?_ 
Have a competent person make a plan of the 
ground, with broad walks meandering in every 
direction. After the plan is made and examined 
carefully and corrected, so that you are perfectly 
satisfied it is the best that could be designed for 
your grounds—then you are prepared for work._ 
Dig up every dead, dying and unsightly tree, and 
trench the ground two feet deep with spade, or 
tf large, subsoil as deeply as possible with the plow. 
Then, stake the walks according to the plan, and 
take the soil from them to the depth of about 18 
iuebes, and use it in leveling off’ the surface, and 
filling up any hollow places. Next; drag and rake 
the surface of the ground quite smooth, carrying 
an atones into cue waika. pill up tho to < 
within two or three Inches of the surface with 
stones, pack them down level, and cover with fine 
are hatched out here about the first of May, and 
young insects sometimes suffer for want of food, 
as the leaves are not sufficiently advanced to sup¬ 
ply their wants. Soon after hatching they spin 
themselves a nest in a orach of tho tree, and here 
L ^ c i gOlu^ (ml CO RvC mi . 
the demands of appetite require, and returning 
very punctually to sleep and rest—never venturing 
out on a wet day. Sometimes during very fine 
warm days they lorsake thc-ir nest sleeping on the 
limbs of the trees, but retire to it on the first ap¬ 
proach of a change. These insects are very small 
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1 ■ ZIE 3 FILTER- afterwards. Tn r.thei 
places it is still worse. The only way to obtair 
pure, sweet water is to filter rain or river water 
and the test filter for this pnrpose, that we knoii 
anything about, is the one we give an engravinc 
o i, manufactured 
by J, E. Cheney & 
Co., and known as 
Kkdzib’s Filter, 
it was first invent- 
ed by a friend of 
| ours whose inge- .>£• if 
nutty is only equal- ’ (fjjp 
led by his modesty i '|p3ra fyM 
and worth. Messrs. A, j ' j 
i Kedzie & Cheney J 
have made several 
improvements,and j. 
it is now decidedly ;|. v '' V_ *i';| 
the best of which ,, ( 
wehaveanykuowl- 
edge. It is made 
o f se veral d i fferent ' -Jk 
sizes, holding, we ____ jZ - - - 
believe, from two 1 
to four pails-full. ^ 
Each one contains water cooler. 
a reservoir, holding a pail-full or two, which can 
be drawn at any time. 
We have used this filter for five or six years, and 
can say from experience that it is cheap and effec¬ 
tive, and will keep in good condition for many 
yeao. In fact, we can suggest no improvement. 
It seems to ho all that can be desired. No matter 
iu what condition the water may be when put into 
it, it comes out perfectly sweet and pure. Soft 
filtered water Is, we might as well inform the ladies, 
much the be6t for all culinary purposes. This 
Filter, used in connection with the Water Cooler, 
insures a supply of water so pure and cool that it 
is enough to tempt the wine drinker to forsake the 
cup, and driuk health and strength with nature’s 
crystal beverage. 
The Peach. —“ How great a degree of cold the 
peach tree will bear without injury to the fruit 
buds?” is a question that we cannot answer. Gen¬ 
erally ten or twelve degrees below zero is sufficient 
to kill the fruit buds in this section. Last winter, 
the thermometer indicated far greater severity, 
(from 15° to 22° below zero,) so that all hopes of a 
peach crop the present season were abandoned._ 
At the present time, however, there is every pros¬ 
pect of a most abundant crop. In connection with 
this fact it should be remembered that the summer 
of 1856 was so dry that peach trees made but a 
small increase of wood,and thatthe growthatopped 
entirely very early in the fall, the young shoots 
becoming completely ripened long before winter 
commenced. To this fact we are undoubtedly In¬ 
debted for our peaches the present season, as tbe 
ripening of the wood and buds enabled them tu 
bear uninjured the unusual severity of the past j 
winter. 
1HE i HORNS are a very beautiful class of large 
shrubs, or perhaps we might better call them 
small trees, as they grow from twelve to twenty 
feet high. We have seen them the former height 
when only six or seven years old They are now 
in flower, and receive, as they well deserve, gene¬ 
ral admiration. There are few shrubs more beau- 
tilul or more worthy of general cultivation. The 
best, varieties are the Single Pink and Single Red 
and the Double Red and Double White. 
Severul varieties of the Spirea are in flower 
and among them we notice the 8. trilobata, and 
S, v enal* both VO ry neat shrubs of rather dwarfish 
anbit, with trusses of small ilowers almost eover- 
iiig the plant. N. uhnifolia is of larger growth, 
V th 1 , arger fiowerB * & lanceolata Is the finest of 
|ho class—of the purest whiteness. Its branches 
r® flond snow-wreaths. Everybody should plant 
f. Ia our uotiu ® the Spireas last week, we gave 
inn diet/an a as being in flower; we should have 
%id A icondertii. 
(Tun Calycanthus is becoming a a great favor- 
as the demand for it at tli« nurseries shows. It 
4 11 sweet scented shrub, with large cinna- 
Xon colored flowers. 
Tub Rose-colored Wigkua is just coming into 
•lioom. It is a lino shrub, with flowers of a rosy 
P nk, and as hardy as a lilac. 
Iue African Tamarix now shows it delicato 
1HK SIBERIAN Arbor X it. v,—Facts caul Opin- 
ions. It is one thing to know, and another to sup¬ 
pose or believe. Iu science facts only are of any 
value. The tree known iu nurseries in this vicini¬ 
ty as the Siberian Arbor Yitie, is, unfortunate in 
being misrepresented by pseudo horticultural 
writers; to wit;—In a leading Monthly Journal or 
Miscellany of Agricultural and other similar topics, 
hailing from the Empire City, it is set down as 
Tlfispa siberica, on what authority?—In a farmers 
pajKT of our own vicinity, it has been designated 
as Biota Pyramidalis, on what authority? This 
popular and valuable tree, is thus described under 
these different botanical names by professedly hor¬ 
ticultural papers — what says the Rural New- 
\ orker? I might state that the same cut used to 
represent the Siberian Arbor Vitte as seen growing 
ia this vicinity, is used to represent the Biota 
Pyramsw.itis. I submit erroneously. In various 
tfutaloguca we find Thuya siberica. Thuya Kareana, 
and now, and worso than all, Biota Pyramidal is, 
applied to this favorite evergreen.—II. R. S., Roch¬ 
ester, N, K, 1857. 
CATERPILLARS ON THE CHERRY. 
Mr. Editor:— Can you, or any of your numer¬ 
ous correspondents, inform me what will destroy 
tho black caterpillar, which infests Cherry trees? 
A neighbor of mine has a very tine Black Tarta 
rian tree, which was attacked by them, about a 
week ago. He has cut off several large branches of 
the tree, alive with them, and burned them,—has 
tried smoking them out of tho tree, but all to no 
purpose, I he tree attacked, is young and very 
thrifty looking—the caterpillars seem to. when 
Cooktno Dried Apples. —Wash sour dried ap¬ 
ples, being careful to do it quickly, and put in a 
porcelain kettle. Have ready a tea-kettle of boiling 
water, and pour over them, tilling your preserve 
kettle. Cover closely, and as they require more 
water add boiling. When they are cooked tender, 
ready to pour out, have about the proportion of 
three pints Of juice, to three quarts of the apple. If 
they are boiled too dry they will lie strong, and un¬ 
pleasant, if too inuoh water is left in—insipid,_ 
Do not sweeten while warm, but as you wish them 
for tho table—a table spoonful Of sugar, to a vog- 
atable-disk fall of the sauce. Dried apples, in this J 
fruit-growing country, are not usually counted | 
among the luxuries of the table, but in this year of j 
scarcity they will be found exceedingly palatable, 
prepared in the above manner—having much the 
flavor of the fresh fruit. If you wish them “extra” 
nicadd grated lemon peel, from a lemon partly 
Planting Y egetables—Strawberries in the 
Suape.— YY r ill yon be pleased to let us know 
whether it is best to plant vegetables and straw¬ 
berries, North and South, or East aud West; also 
inform ns it tho strawberry will grow iu a deep 
sha,!e aua be;ir well, for instance under large apple 
trees, and oblige a— Subscriber, Murfreesboro■ 
Tennessee, 1657, 
Remarks.— It makes but little difference on a 
mvel piece of ground; but on inclined laud we 
generally follow the inclination with the rows, un- 
Less we wish to use the lower ground for some other 
purpose. Strawberries will not do well in a deep 
shade. Raspberries bear shade better, but all orops 
are injured by heavy shade. 
A Wonderful Iron.—A Mr. Howell has invent¬ 
ed a secret method of making good paddled iron 
quite fluid by mixing with other ingredients, and 
thus produces what is termed in the transactions 
of the Liverpool Polytechnic Society, “ Homoge¬ 
nous Metal,” all alleged to be as tough as copper 
and as strong as steel. 
