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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
LETT E FROM A CALIFORNIA HORTICULTURIST. 
Eds. Rural:—H aving received jour 18th July 
No., and found therein my note of April 28tb, I 
conclude that “communication between us is es¬ 
tablished,” I don’t exactly know how the wire is 
suspended or the cable sunk, and yet I feel the 
manipulations of your end of the machine con¬ 
stantly. I am conducting a nursery business here, 
and a farm thirty miles distant,—am Correspond¬ 
ing Secretary of a large Society, and travel more 
or less in various enterprises throughout the State. 
Two, or three, or even four hundred miles in twice 
as many cays, with horse and buggy, are not un- 
frequently done in California. And yet I read the 
Rural, I study the Rural, I dream of the Rural. 
We must have a large list of subscribers for you 
as soon as practicable. I see von listen to the 
questions of tyros and answer the queries of sages. 
Allow me (with the former) to ask, la it common for 
the seed of the yellow-fleshed peach to produce 
those of white flesh, and vice versa? Is it common 
for Panics and Meiters to interchange in reproduc¬ 
tion? Do you know of any well authenticated 
instances of the production of any tv. o of the 
three fruits. 
should I ke a specimen of our true Kentucky blue 
grass seed, I will send you an ounce or two by 
mail. I have been in most of the States, of our 
UuiOD, but have never seen any ot *he “ gmewine 1 ' 
beyond her borders. I should think it would 
be nice for lawns with you. Any seed—field or 
garden, indigenous to our soil—you may like to 
have will bo oheerfully sent you. I hope the seed 
may come safe to band, and in time may prove 
‘ like bread cast upon the waters,” to you and 
yours. 
The Crowder Pea, I omitted to mention, affords 
the best winter d : sh extant. They should be plant¬ 
ed 4 or 5 feet apart, as the vine runs Tery much. 
Remarks.— The Kentucky Blue Grass, as sug¬ 
gested by our correspondent is excellent for lawns, 
bearing on: dry summers better than auy other 
variety, and keeping green all summer. 
can with difficulty be discerned with the naked 
eye; it commences immediately to puncture with 
small holes the surface of the leaf upon which it is 
prodaced. It soon acquires a covering of greenish- 
black slime, and is eaid by Barkis to live as a 
worm twenty-six days, shedding iis skin daring 
that period live time?. At its greatest size It. is 
half an inch la length, and is now nearly or quite 
ready for ita last moniting. Fig. 5, give3 its ap¬ 
pearance after it has shed its ski a for the lost time, 
with the forsiken akin lying near it. It is now 
much caanged in color, being a yellowish-brown 
and somewhat diminished in size. In afew hours 
it falls to the ground and immediately seeks to 
barrow into the soil. Descending to the depth of 
several ir.chea it forma a cocoon with a shiny 
brown interior surface, and a rough exterior with 
grains ot earth adhering. Fig. 6. shows a broken 
cocoon with the insect, now much further dimin¬ 
ished in s zi, taken oat Tnis is the Pupa or dor¬ 
mant state. It remains in the earth after iis flret 
appearance sixteen days, wben it comes forth as 
tbs perfect insect, Fig . 2. The second brood re¬ 
main in their subterranean retreat until the suc¬ 
ceeding Bprlng. 
We will now consider the means for preventing 
or palliating the injuiy resulting from the attacks 
of the Pear Slug. 1 would first remark that the slug 
is found in much greater abundance on weakly 
growing trees than on those of strong and rapid 
growth. This fact points to the firBt and funda¬ 
mental remedy; the securing of healthy tTees and 
by the proper enrichment and preparation of the 
I have also 
ately assume a brown uusigutly appca aace, while 
the proper function oi the Itaf, the elaboration of 
the sap, is almost, entirely obstructed. Young 
trees are sometimes irreparably i, jareti, and I 
have seen many acres in a single nursery the trees 
of which were from this cause rendered pertr.ft 
nently unsaleable, and comparatively worthless.— 
Older trees are often much injured by checking 
the formation of young wood aud f.nit spurs, 
which has a serious effect upon their growth and 
fraitruluetB. As early as the year 1707, this insect 
attracted the attention of cultivators in Mussacbu- 
setts, and elsewhere, by causing great injury to 
the cherry, pear, plum and quince trees; and it 
hap, with little intermission, continued its depre¬ 
dations every year, until this time. 
The Show of Fruits and Flowers at Floral Ball 
was very creditable, though the construction and 
arrangement of the ball was about sb bad as coaid 
be for tue purpose. The collections of apples and 
pears were large, numerous, and well grown; and 
there was a floe display of iosob, dahlias, phloxes 
and other cut flowers. Some of the fruits wo no¬ 
ticed, particularly the pear*, were incorrectly 
named, and the committees would do a great ser¬ 
vice to exhibitors and the cause oi' Pomolgy, if 
during their examinations they would take a little 
pains to point oat and correct these errors.— 
Among the fine things that attracted especial no¬ 
tice was a beautiful display of cranberries, consisting 
of Borne eight or ten apparently distinct varieties, 
most of them exceedingly large and handsome.— 
The show of vegetables was lar ger than at any pre¬ 
vious Fair. We have not room for an extended 
notice, but give the list of premiums awarded on 
Fruits and Flowers. 
PROFESSIONAL LIST. 
Cut Flowrrn—l!cs«t dHpluy, A Frost A Co., Rochester, isllt-ei 
cup, vsluiil $10; Zd, EllwMiger A Hurry, Rochester, Sit. Medal. 
l>Hhlias— BcH collection. Mrs K. VVt.tj, Buffalo, $fi, 2d Thorp, 
Smith A Hum hett, Pyiucuoe. A HeH 24 tliH#ltiiil»r blooms, 
(with tiHtucs) Kllhn Tyler. Buffalo. 0 2d, Thorp, Smi h A Hau- 
cbett. 3 Bent 12 dit.-,imllui bloom#, mote, 8, i'd. Klihu Tyler, 1 
Rt.aer—Gnat t .1 number of itowot Olid boM ruriellce, A Froi-t 
A Co, $3; 2d, Thorp, t-mi h A Hui.uhelt, :« Newest nod best 2t 
distinct varieties with tiHines, suroe 5- 2d, A Frost A Co, 3 — 
Newest uod best 12 varieties, Thorp, smith A Uiuichctt, 3; 2d, 
A Frost A Co, 1. 
Phloxes— Greatest number newest and best vunelies, Fllwan- 
ger A Bnriy, $5; 2d. Tliurp, Htrith A llulichclt,3. Best 12 vari¬ 
eties with oumoe, same, 3; 2d, Kllwungor A Harry, l Best 
Apricot, Nectarine and Peach—upon 
the same tree without working? I am askingtheBe 
things because I wish to use, for the furtherance of 
Horticulture, such answers as the best and most 
reliable sources of information can afford. 
Our country (the Pacific coast) is, so far as sys¬ 
tematic and scientific culture is concerned, all new 
and untried. Only a few tears ago nothing was 
known, and up to the present hour almost every¬ 
thing is yet to be learned. Some very striking 
results, however, have followed our feeble experi¬ 
ments. In January of 1656 I received from a farm 
in Western New York, Elm and Sugar Maple seed¬ 
lings, about 3,500 each. They would average some 
three or four inches long. They had grown side 
by side there, and equally we’L They arrived in 
good condition, and were planted in a choice 
piece of ground and treated with equal care. The 
Elms have grown vigorously; many of them are 
now ten and some twelve feet high, while the Ma¬ 
ples have mostly perished, and those that still live 
neither grow nor promise continuance of life.— 
The Horse Chestnut, so noble with yon. refuses 
almost entirely to grow here. The Beech, after 
frequent importations of both plants and seeds, is 
an entire failure. I have notODeleft. The Amer¬ 
ican Linden, or Basswood, does slightly better, 
though it bears no comparison with ita home 
growth. The Abies Cavnder>s>s (He mloek) thus far 
is an entire failure; Cedrus Aiba (White Cedar) 
ditto; while the Pintis A l epic a, (Swiss Pine,) and. 
several other varieties of the Pinus family and 
also of the Cupressus and Abies families, of which 
I have imported and planted the seed, flourish 
finely. The Atlanta?, Catalpa, Gynmocladns 
Canadensis, China tree, Tamarix Gallica, and sev¬ 
eral of the members of the Acacia 'family, (both 
American and Australian,) do well in our soil and 
The Almond, the several varieties Wal- 
from my garden in towu. There it was of fair 
size, not ex'ra. After five years cultivation in the 
same garden, a part iB very large and apsrrsmall. 
I measured the leaf of one plant, transplanted last 
spring, two weeks ago. It was forty inches long 
and thirty-four broad, with a stem eighteen inches 
Long. I measured other stems twenty-six inches 
long, hut none others with bo large a leaf as the 
one above mentioned. Where the plants are 
crowded they are small—where they have sufficient 
room they become large, the soil and other cir¬ 
cumstances being equal. 
Some years since at Rock Island, in the garden 
of Mr. Hibbard Moore, I saw one monstrous Pie 
Plant, much larger than SDy I had ever before 
seen, and I think much larger than mine above 
spoken of—of this, however, 1 am not sure, as I did 
not measure it. I asked Hibbard where he pro¬ 
cured his mammoth Pie Plant. He answered, "by 
giving it room ’’—that it was of the same sort of 
thereat growing in his garden. This, with the 
examples shown in my own garden, teaches me 
that cultivation has very much to do in perfecting 
this, now necessary, vegetable. I give mine about 
every second year, to each plant, a good pailful oi 
leached ashes. Cover thoroughly every fall with 
barn-yard manure and decomposed peat, and give 
to each plant a space six feet square, so that it can 
spread itself, and it will, you may depend on it— 
Another treatment they get, (which I consider 
highly beneficial,) from the wash-tab, every week 
through the growing season, a thorough drench¬ 
ing with warm soap suds. Chas. Brackett, 
Rochester, Lnd., Sept 23,1857. 
soil, of a thrifty and uniform growth, 
noticed that certain varieties of the pear are much 
more subject to its attack than others. The Bart- 
lett, DucUesse d’Angonleme, and Louise Bon de 
Jersey, for iostance, have with me Buffered more 
than the Gloat Morceau, Vicar of Winklield and 
Beun& DieL Nature ha3 provided a minute but 
formidable enemy to the Blag, which serves very 
materially to check its increase. This enemy is a 
species of Ichneumon fly which is also of the wasp 
family. Soon after the slug fl/ has deposited in¬ 
egg on the leaf, the Icbneamon deposits its egg 
within the shell of the former, which developug 
to a minute grab befoie the time for the hatching 
of the slug worm, feeds npon the embryo slug, pas¬ 
sing the whole period of its existence as a worm, 
and even undergoing the succeeding transforma¬ 
tion through the pupa state, within the small space 
afforded by the egg of the slug, the natural size of 
which may Vie seen at a. Fig. 1. 
Fig. 7, exhibits the Ichneumon fly as found in 
the egg of the Pear Slug nearly ready to emerge a3 
a perfect insect. 
Fortunately for the cultivator, the Pear Slug is 
easily destroyed during the werm state, and since 
the discovery that the egg is deposited upon the 
upper aide of the leaf, it can also be easi’y reached 
in thiB stage of its existence. 
The application at the proper time of lime in a 
dry or powdered state while the leaves are wet 
with rain or dew will prove effectual in destroying 
the egg before it is hatched, or the sing daring the 
time of its depredations. It the number of trees 
to be treated ib large, it will only be necessary to 
apply the remedy twice during the season, pro¬ 
vided the proper atage of the insect’s development 
is chosen. This should be as soon as possible 
alter the eggs are at! hatched, which is usually 
about the first of July with the first brood, an.; the 
first of September with the second brood. The 
lime should be very carefully dusted on every leaf 
of the tree, and by following np the application 
promptly for a year or two the number of insects 
will be very mnch diminished. If applied earlier 
than the times mentioned, some oi the eggs will 
not have hatched, in which ra«e it requires mnch 
greater care and a larger quantity of lime; or if 
applied much later, many of them will have un¬ 
dergone their transformation into the pupa state, 
and therefore bo beyond our reach. Many culti¬ 
vators have reported a want of success from the 
application of this remedy, merely from a want of 
that knowledge of the history ot the insect which 
would enable them to choose the proper time for 
its use. I have found this remedy always effica¬ 
cious, and even plaster of Paris, ashes, or dust 
from the road applied to the slimy coat of the 
slug will cause it to sicken and die. 
I would request the favor of any one possessing 
a specimen of this insect (the Imago) to forward it 
to me that a drawing ot it may be made. I be¬ 
lieve it has not yet been figured in this country. 
A. 0. Moore. 
No. 140 Fulton at-, New Yoric, Oct, 1857. 
climate, 
nut, (excepting the shag-bark,) and the Butternut, 
all grow rapidly from seed. My oldest are two 
years old and are ten to twelve feet high. The 
Tamarind, with the simple protection of one thick¬ 
ness of common sheeting during the winter months, 
comes into bearing the second year from seed.— 
Onr Apples and Pears, especially those of large 
size, when entirely exposed to the sun are apt to 
sunburn on oae aide, while the atone fruits are en¬ 
tirely free from the evil. 
Tte above facts pertain to the Sacramento Val¬ 
ley. in the latitude of St. Louis. In the coast val¬ 
leys, under the influence of sea-fogs and sea- 
breezes, and also in the more elevated portions of 
the country, and in the mountain valleys, they 
might not fully apply. 
In the winter ot 1855 I imported, for my orna¬ 
mental ground, some fine, healthy plants of Nor¬ 
way Bpruce, of White and Purple Lilac, Deutzia 
Scabra, and Weigela Rosea, which I continually 
nurtured with the utmost care, bat they have near¬ 
ly all perished, and the remainder barely live.— 
They do not grow. Onr sun is evidently too ho^ 
without the influence of frequent showers. The 
Robo, the Pink, Flowering Almond, Corchorus, 
Pomegranate, Rose Acacia, Honeysuckle, Passi- 
flora, aud Chrysanthemums, seem entirely at 
home, while the Verbena, the Geranium, and the 
whole family of Tulips, Hjacinthe, Lilies, Ac., do 
well with abundant watering. 
This is a bare outline of what families, immi¬ 
grating to California to live, may expect to be 
I may add more 
-By Mr. Prince’s article in your 
Eds. Rural 
last number, I see that he seems anxious to get up 
a personal squabble about the Chnroh Pear. Mr. 
P. is undoubtedly a very learned gentleman, and 
well acquainted with the old authors, about as use¬ 
ful to modern pomology as Dodoneus to modern 
botany. But those authors have nothing to do 
wi;h the actual question, whether the Church pear 
is, or i3 not a native American variety. It would 
have been more conclusive if Mr. P. had quoted 
the old author who describes that fruit. That was 
the only way to justify the calling up of all those 
old authors, the respected authorities of Mr. 
Prince's manual, but whose fruits are no longer 
cultivated. I must say that although I am -i little 
acquainted with those fathers of European Pomo¬ 
logy, and could add half a dozen more to the list 
of names, it 1 would give myself the air of a sa¬ 
vant, I cannot find a single description that could 
answer lor the Platt’s Bergamotte. It seems at 
least strange that the French gentleman did not 
know the numeot his grafts, Bince Mr. Prince had 
to give it an American name—the French gentle¬ 
man could or could not be believed—that is no au¬ 
thority. Mr. Pkinck seems very unwilling toadmit 
that the Church may be a native variety. As I 
have before stated, I have not the least interest in 
the question, and will not reply another word here¬ 
after, i' Mr. P. chooses to make it a personal ques¬ 
tion. Euough, and too much has been 3aid about 
a single pear. 1 must only ask Mr. Prince 
1st, If he thinks the authority of the French 
gentleman conclusive, without any other evidence 
than his individual assertion? 
2d, If he will be so good as to state the time of 
that first grafting, which cannot be over 40 years 
ago? 
Now, if Mr. Prince will just step over to the 
other side of the Sound and look at the old tree, 
which evidently has never been grafted above thi 
root, and tell us how it is possible that a tree over 
fiot feet in cit cnmference can be the result of a graft 
put iu about thirty or forty years ago, we shall 
then all agree with Mr. P., and avoid unpleasant 
personalities about mere trifles. 
Rochester, N. Y., 1857. L. E. Bkrckhaxs. 
The. perfect insect or fly of the Pear Sing-magnified. 
The cross lines represent the natural size. 
The engraving fig. 2, represents the perfect in¬ 
sect magnified. The cross lines Bhow the natnral 
size. This figure is taken from an English work, 
as I have not been able, personally, to verify its 
identity with onr own insect The other cuts are 
transcripts of ray own observations. The slug fly 
deposits its egg singly on the upper surface of the 
most matured leaves, covering it with a frothy 
white varnish like mucilage, which surrounds it 
and serves at once to attach it to the leaf, and to 
exclude the atmosphere. The small spot a on the 
leaf, fig. 1, represents the si/.e and form of the egg 
which is seen as a dark center in the middle of a 
white spot. Fig. 3 represents the egg magnified 
and the worm or young slug within the semi-trans¬ 
parent Bhell. Fig. 4 exhibits the egg also magni¬ 
fied after the insect haB emerged. 
F A Lord, Buffalo, 0. BeatG variola#, Cot each. Chat Taiiitor, 
Buffalo, plate. A 2«.1, W K Btriiymoro, Buffalo 3- 
Fltnna—2il br#t 6 varieties? ti of ouch, E Dorr, Albany. $3.— 
Boat I variety, 1 2 #peeimen*, N Henson, Albany, Coe's Uotdeu 
Drop, 2; 2d. K Uijir, Albany, #atm>, I. 
Qulneoh—Biut doiteu Apple ni Orange, C E West. Buffalo, $3 
2d. K H Hayward. Keobvater, 2. 
Grape*—Beet l variety [lardy Grape#, fi bunched, E florr, Al¬ 
bany Delaware, $2 Bert I variety Foreign Grape, 3bunches, 
B Uallymorc, Buffalo, Black Hamburgh, 3. 
Watermelons— Beat rpvrfxucn may variety, I* ICiatcr, East 
Muroburgh, Kilo eo, $2 
Crar.bi nice—Best peck liotuetdio cultivated. N HU1, Cator, 
Stott co, plate, $5. 
FOREIGN FRUIT. 
Apples—Greatest number of Rood varieties and best speci¬ 
mens correctly mimed, at least 3 specimens of each, H Beadle, 
Waterford, G W. all cup, $16, 2d, M R Britton, Spring Frnirie, 
Wi«, Thomas - Fruit Book. 
Fear#—Greatest number Of good varieties and beat speci¬ 
men# tcnrctly named, 3 specimens ofcach variety, C SI Ilovey 
<fe Co, Boston, Mass,, »11 cup, $ 1 . 
Meetings of the Horticulturists present were held 
on the several evenings of the Fair, and many 
subjects of interest were discussed. The one we 
attended was devoted principally to the cracking 
of the pear. This subject was pretty well discussed 
at the last mf eting of the Fruit Growers in this 
city, and reported in tho Rural of Sept. 26th. 
able to cultivate with success, 
when I have more room. 
Sacramento, Aug. 4,1857. 
Remarks.— The Peach will produce its like more 
often than most of onr improved varieties of fruit. 
If the tree on which the seed was grown stood 
alone, we should expect the product to be like the 
parent in its main characteristics; but if grown in 
an orchard with other varieties, we should not be 
able to give even a guess as to what the product 
would be. It might resemble the parent very 
closely, or be unlike it in almost every respect 
We know of no case of the Apricot, Nectarine 
and Peach, or either two of them growing on the 
We have heard of a great many strange 
Accompanying a box of Seeds, we received the 
following interesting note from A. L. Ashley, 
Esq., of Sharpaburg, Kentucky, for all of which he 
will accept our thanks: 
Eds. Rural:—I take the liberty of sending yon 
with this a small box of seed; the mail affording 
the only facility for their transmission, must be 
the apology for the seeming parsimony. Ti.ey are 
mostly of the “ old fogy ” sort, transmitted from 
our predecessors, aud 1 think will equal if not sur¬ 
plus many of later sorts. The encumber is from 
a Long Green, 16 inches, by 4 in circumference 
brittle and tender. The Imperial Pea is all that 
that, can bo desired of the running sort; very large 
and productive. The Crowder Pea is an old fash¬ 
ioned or vine psa, and which I think embraces ail 
the excellence of the Potato and Lima Bean com- 
-they are planted as if for sweet potatoes, 
THE PEAR 8LUG. 
FIG. 3. fig. 4. 
Fig. 3 The. Egg magnified with the embryo Slug seen 
through the shell. 
Fig. 4. The Egg empty, after the Slug has escaped — 
magnified. 
It, may here be noticed that Dr. Harris in his 
admirable treatise on insects irjurious to vegeta¬ 
tion, in speaking of the Pear Slug states that “ their 
eggs are placed singly within little Bomi-ciroolar 
incisions through the shiu of tho leaf, and general¬ 
ly on the lower side of it.” It ib singular that ft 
statement made with so much particularity should 
be entirely at variance with the facta of the case. 
The egg I have never been able to find on the 
under side of the leaf or in any incision on either 
side, but very plainly can it be seen by cIobc scru¬ 
tiny on any tree attacked by the slug deposited 
upon the upper surface of the leaf appearing as a 
white Bpeek about the size of the head of a pin. 
Thk insect which we familiarly call the Pear 
Slug, (Selandria Cerasi,) represented iufig. 1 is, at 
the period of its life when generally noticed by 
the cultivator, a greenish black, club-shaped worm, 
with a thick rounded anterior extremity, and 
tapering toward the posterior. It is covered with 
a sefni-transparent coat of slime, which exudes 
from the body, and, in the hottest sunshine, does 
not become hard or dry. There is not the slightest 
indication, as it rests on the leaf, that It possesses 
either head or legs, but under the club-shaped 
thorax it has a head like a caterpillar, and by rub¬ 
bing off its slimy coat, or by turning the insect 
upon its back, it will bo found to possess three 
pair of true legB, those which are nearest to the 
head, and seven pair of false or prolega, the lat¬ 
ter being more flat in shape than the former.— 
Wliilu resting undisturbed upon the leaf, the tail 
or lust segment of the body ia slightly raised. At 
ita greatest size, the worm i« about half an inch 
in length; it ia very sluggish in its habits, being 
rarely seen to move, not even altemptingto escape 
when touched oi “herwise disturbed, nor.does it. 
seek refuge from ti* most, intense heat of the sun, 
or from the petting min, being always found fully 
exposed on the upper surface of the leaf. 
It does not eat durhig the day, but about sunset 
commences to feed. The injury consists in ita eat¬ 
ing the upper skin of the leaf, while the lower skin 
and the veins are untouched; the leaves irnmedi- 
sanie tree, 
things. 
A Pear Tree Borer. — I wish to call the atten- 
ion of fruit growers to tbeir pear trees. Some of 
mine showing signs of a premature ripening of 
their leaves, I examined them to discover if possi¬ 
ble the cause. On removing the earth about the 
roots, and acraping off the dead hark, (outside,) I 
found signs of tho presence of the borer; not by 
any sawdust like appearance, bn’ by a narrow 
dead streak in the bark. They do not work down 
the tree like the apple boier, but nearly horizon¬ 
tally around it. They make a narrow path, say 
from one-sixteenth to one-eighth of an inch in 
width, and do not penetrate the wood. They re¬ 
semble the apple borer, but are slimmer. Those I 
found were from one-fourth of an inch to an inch 
in length. I should think the smallest were stung 
this year and the largest last year. 
If any of your correspondents or subscribers 
have had any experience with this enemy. I hope 
they will give it to t$ie world. Not having seen 
any accounts of borers in pear trees, in the works 
on fruit culture, I am disposed to regard it as a 
Wm. H. Olin. 
Planting Cranberries — Will your please to | 
communicate to us, through your paper, the best 
time to set out cranberry plants, and what, is the 
best method of cultivating them, when planted on 
low. sandy gTOund?—A. J. Wheeler, Ypsilanti, 
Mich., 1657. 
Remarks,— The spring we should consider the 
best time for planting cranberries. We put out a 
few last spring that have done well. The only 
culture they seem to require, is the destruction of 
the weeds, and this, we fonnd to he no small work. 
We pared off the surface before planting, but the 
roots remaining in the soil continued to grow, and 
favored bj r the moisture, sent up uu abundant ciop 
overy week or so, much to our annoyance, and to 
the injury of the plants. This growth of rmhy 
weeds in moist places, seems to us to be the great¬ 
est difficulty iu the way of the culture of the cran¬ 
berry. The next season we hope they will be less 
troublesome, as the plants will be better able to 
protect themselves, and the quantity of roots and 
seeds in the soil must be greatly diminished. Per¬ 
haps, some of the cranberry growers can give in¬ 
formation that will be valuable on this point. 
bined;- 
the vines of which they resemble and do not re 
a, I have seen them in North Caroli 
quire sticking 
na. The Cassabar Melon seed are taken from a 
small melon which had partially been destroyed 
by chicsens. The original seed was brought 
from Asia; see Fat. Office Rep. 1854; as for the 
high qualities claimed for it I cannot say. The 
Nameless Beans grew in my garden, on a large 
bush, and very prolific. The New Mexican Com 
is large, aud I think unequaled for tho table, hom¬ 
iny and rneaL It remains a long while in “ roast¬ 
ing ear stage,”—grows with me 15 feet high, and 
2 or 3 ears to tho stalk. For table use I think it 
unsurpassed, as Its whiteness and sweetness make 
it desirable for that purpose. The two varieties 
of Sugar Corn I send are from seed, which se¬ 
cured premiums at the Ohio and Kentucky State 
Fairs respect vely. They are easily mixed, and an 
inspection of each w ill suffice to oonvince you that 
we can boast of other things besides fat cattle, 
fine horses, pretty girls and fighting men. If you 
FIG, 6« FIG. 6. FIG. I * 
Tig. f>. (a) The Slug, after shedding its skin the last time- 
(6) The skin left upon the lcof. 
Fig, 6 (c) The Cocoon from which the. insect has been pre.- 
maturr.lt/ removed (rf) Ckt Slug, after having com¬ 
menced its change to the fly stale. 
Fig. 7. The Ichneumon fly, magnified; S upposed to be of 
tlu species Encyrlus, taken from the egg oj the Slug. 
When first hatched, tho young slug Is white and 
