RHUBARB AND GINGER WINE 
NOTES IN THE GARDEN. 
Ena. Rural New-Yorker: —Noticing nn inquiry 
in one of ymir late numbers for it recipe for making 
Rhubarb Wine, I send you mine, which I think excel¬ 
lent, also one for making Ginger Wine. 
Rhubarb Wine — To every lj lbs. rhubarb, when 
bruised well, put 1 quart cold boiltd water; let stand 
l days,- stirriug three times a day. To every gallon 
of juice put 34 lbs. of lump sugar, and to every 20 
quarts, 2 of brandy, barrel it directly and let it stand 
a twelve month. 
Ginger Wine — To 12 Bis. sugar, add 18 quarts of 
water, 4 ozs. of the best Jmaiaea ginger, bruised well. 
Slice the peel of I lemons, take all and boil It for 
three-quarters of an hour, taking oil' the scam as it 
rises. Put it into a tub when hike-warm and add 
three-quarters of a spoonful of yeast; the juice of 4 
lemons; 1 tt>. of raisins, chopped. Put iuto the cask, 
let stand a fortnight, stirring every day, then add a 
quart of brandy and one ounce of ising glass. Stop 
it down and it will be lit to bottle in six weeks. 
West Vienna, N. Y., 1881. A. Suuscriukr. 
Vegetation has not at any time made a very rapid 
growth this spring. Our rains have been invariably 
followed by cold drying winds, and we have never 
experienced a season so unfavorable for transplant- 
jug. Peas that were planted early and in favorable 
situations, will be fit for picking in a few days, and 
in another week the early strawberries will come in 
pretty freely. 
The Peonies are the leading feature in the garden 
at present, and they truly make a magnificent display. 
Grn.ndifl.ora carnea plena is a very large and fine 
flower, outside petals blush, center yellowish and 
fringed; sweet stented. Festiva, white, with dashes 
of carmine in the center ; a globular flower, tine 
and sweet Edward Dagge, of the Mount Hope 
Nurseries, has a seedling somewhat resembling this, 
but of a purer white, and fully as desirable in all 
other respects. It is a fine flower, worthy of exten¬ 
sive dissemination and a good name. Pompoma is 
a good flower, ontaide petals purplish, with salmon 
center. Comte de Paris is a fine purplish rose color, 
a remarkably free bloomer, and makes a most superb 
show. Poltai is the darkest of the class, and is essen¬ 
tial on this account It is a dark crimson. We 
might increase the list of flne sorts, bat the above 
will make a good selection. 
Among the trees and shrubs which are mostly 
passing out of flower, we notice particularly the 
White Fringe , a fine small tree that attracts general 
attention when in bloom, on account of the singular 
appearance of its paper-like flowers. Also that most 
beautiful shrub, the Wei gel a rosea, or Rose-colored 
Weigela. Wc have before called attention to the 
beauty of this shrub, and it has been extensively 
disseminated, yet not as much as it deserves to be, 
for it is only occasionally that we meet with it. We 
give an engraving of a branch in flower just as it 
was picked, which will give a very good idea of the 
leaf and the form of the flower, but not of its charm¬ 
ing colors. 
When the buds appear they are of a dark, crimson 
color, becoming lighter as they increase in size. 
When the flowers open, the inside of the petals are of 
the most delicate color, and the outside dark rose or 
light crimson, changing color as they grow older. 
As it is a free bloomer, the flowers being generally 
more numerous on most branches than on the one 
from which the engraving is taken, and as the bods 
in every stage of growth and the full formed flowers 
are borne at the same time, our readers can imagine 
the effect produced by bucIi a charming display of 
colors. Then it is perfectly hardy, as much so as a 
lilac, and we have not Been a plant that suffered in 
the least by the past severe winter, that killed, in 
many cases, the wild vines growing over our 
forest trees. 
are not Injured so much ax a few miles back, where the 
thermometer sank to2.V below zero. 
“ Various conjectures have been advanced upon the eftuso 
of so much damage, and some cultivators have thought it was 
the early and govern frost of October 1, when the temperature 
was only 20* or less, according to locality. Hot we are inclined 
to believe that it is wholly attributable to the unprecedented 
fall of the thermometer in February, being no less than tiy In 
little more than twelve hours, or from the mild temperature 
of 40* to the frigid one of tfi" below zero. That it cannot be 
attributed to the cold of October, is certain; for the ends of 
the shoots of trees were green and fresh for weeks afterwards, 
whilst, they are now, especially the Bartlett, killed partially 
or wholly. The trees were not iu a condition to resists so 
sadden a low temperature, which actually froze and disar¬ 
ranged their tender tissues.” 
The Bust Winw Gkai-kn. — Dr. Mosikr, of Cincinnati, a 
noted vine grower and wine maker, thns writes to the Horti¬ 
culturist !— “ Within the last twenty years l have had under 
cultivation and trial not less than thirty varieties of Ameri¬ 
can grapes, for vineyard culture, and to furnish wino for 
the million. I think it will be a long time before wo find a 
grape in all respects better adapted to the purposo than the 
Catawba. When properly cultivated aud well ripened, it 
makes a good dry wine, superior to the generality of Rhine 
wines, and a sparkling wine comparing favorably with the 
champagne of France. 
“For making a cheap red wino, to take the place of the 
clarets of Bordeaux, do grape that has been tried hereabouts 
is equal to the hardy and protilic Norton’s Virginia Seedling. 
For choice Taney wines, of a superior grade, ! would first 
place the Delaware, the Ilerbemont, the Venango, or Minor's 
Seedling, and the Diana, in the order named. Either of 
these grapes yield a wino for arotna and delicacy of flavor 
superior to Catawba, and in my humble judgment equal to 
Johanesberg, Hermitage, or any of the best wines Europe 
can produce; but as they have not ns yet been tested for 
extensive vineyard culture, will remain some time in the 
hands of amateurs only." 
Autumn Skkk no Further, An.—In a late number of the 
Rural, t saw the Autumn Seek no-Further represented as a 
Western fruit. We have the same apple, obtained frovi 
IIaxton'm Nursery, Cambridge, Washington county, where 
it has been fruited for a long timo, I was told it was a native 
of Connecticut I would like to say, through the Rubai., 
that whoever seat 100 that, package of flower seed from your 
oflice, has my thanks for the favor. They were selected with 
great oare, as they were, with one expection, different varie¬ 
ties from what I hud purchased.— Mkb, IT. W., Johmonidtle , 
LEMON AND RICE PIES 
Eds. Rural: — Inclosed please find excellent 
recipes for Lemon and Rice Pies: 
Lemon Pie. — One egg; one lemon; one cup of 
water; taldespoonful of flour. Chop the pulp and 
rind of the lemon very fine, removing the seeds, and 
a part of the juice; add the yolk of the egg, well 
beaten, the sugar, water and Hour. Rake with hut 
one crust, and when done, pour the white of the egg, 
beaten to a froth, with the juice of the lemon and 
two spoonfuls of white sugar, over the top of the pie, 
and set in the oven long enough to brown slightly. 
If eggs are plenty, four eggs, and no water, makes 
the pie richer, though little better than the above. 
Rich Pie.— Roil two tahlespoonfnls of rice till very 
soft, then strain through a Reive or coarse Cloth, add 
one egg; and milk, or thin cream, enough to (ilia 
pie dish. Sweeten to the taste, and flavor with 
grated lemon peel. This is excellent if not baked 
too much. J. c. 
Richmond, Ind., 1861. 
STEWED BEEF 
am out of the woods, as there is time enough for them 
yet. But if I pass the season without being annoyed 
by their ravages, I shall always, your doubts to the 
contrary notwithstanding, regard tanbark as a “friend 
indeed” to me. 
This is my experience. If of any value, you may 
use it. H. Hubbard. 
Chenango Union Office, Norwich, N. Y., June, 1861. 
aud numerous species; hence it is only upon the 
closest inspection that a species can be determined 
with any degree of certainty, aud that from speci¬ 
mens In good condition. 
There are also leaf and tree-hoppers (called 'Petti- 
gorur/a-,) which must uot be confounded with Psylla 
or leaping plant-lice. 
I trust the foregoing will be so far acceptable as 
the nature of the iuveatigatiou enables me to speak, 
Lancaster, Fa., JuneS, 1861. J. Stauffer. 
Housewives who arc in a habit of using only 
steaks and roasts, make a great mistake. A capital 
dish may be made out of the “ ohunk,” as the butch¬ 
ers call it, or the neck, when well prepared. Select 
a piece of meat aB large as the demand of your table 
may require, wash it well to remove all the blood or 
soil fiom the outside, have your dinner pot perfectly 
clean, suit and pepper the meat, well, lay It in the 
bottom and cover it with water; stew it for two or 
three hours, or till it is thoroughly tender; add half 
an onion, a sprinkle of sage, thyme or summer savory. 
If the meat, is fat, let the water all stew out a half 
hour before it is put on the table, and when your 
meat is browned well on the lower side in the gravy, 
turn it over and brown the other side. When ready, 
take it up, add a little flour thicVening to the gravy, 
or if you have a dredge box, shake the flour into the 
hot gravy and brown it, then add boiling water, and 
you Trill hMT« - a:.’!. V.quo.1, .wiJ to my iu I ci il superior 
to the common roast beef upon boarding-house 
tables. Care must be us»ed to turn it; and equally 
necessary is good judgment in having it thoroughly 
well cooked. — Field Notes. 
H. E. Smith, of Waterloo, writes us that he has 
“tried the whale oil soap with good success — it 
works like a charm on the worms and on the goose¬ 
berry and currant bushes.” White Hellebore, pow¬ 
dered and dusted on the leaves, or blown on with 
bellows, is recommended by English gardeners, and 
has proved successful here. But whatever plan ia 
tried must be persevered in. 
THE CURRANT WORM, 
FRUIT IN WESTERN MICHIGAN, 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker: —An article in your 
issue of last week, relative to the “ Currant Worm,” 
has induced me to communicate the following facts, 
as attested by the experience of many of my neigh¬ 
bors, as well as of myself. How the “advent ” of this 
worm “can be prevented,” is more than I can say; 
but “ when they have come, their ravages can be 
Very pflW'tually by a owluLlUll Of OH 
soap in the proportion of two pounds to fifteen gal¬ 
lons of rain water, and sprinkled freely on the bushes 
with a garden Byringe or watering pot. The soap 
costs here but eight cents per pound. It should be 
dissolved first in a few gallons of hot water. It does 
not entirely destroy the worms in one or two.applica- 
tions, but it does kill them very summarily so far as 
they get a dose of it. 
When 1 first discovered this worm in my garden, it 
had stripped portions of my gooseberry bushes of 
nearly all their foliage, and had become somewhat 
formidable in numbers. I applied the above soap 
twice, and have not seen a worm on the gooseberry 
bushes since that time. It went, however, to the cur¬ 
rants, and there seemed disposed to contest the right 
of possession more tenaciously. Bnt, while there are 
still a few of the enemy left, I have succeeded in 
defeating any serious harm to the bushes, aud have 
destroyed thousands of the worms by the use, thns 
far, of only four pounds of the whale oil soap. My 
busheB are rank with foliage, and laden with fine 
looking, healthy fruit, aud I think one or two more 
morning scouts with the watering pot will pat an end 
to these disturbers of lay horticultural peace. 
All who have used this remedy hereabouts bear 
testimony amounting in substance to that which I 
give above. 1 should mention furthermore, that the 
soap is »3 efficacious upon rose bnshes and pear trees, 
as upon the currant and gooseberry. It not only 
does not injure the leaf or the fruit, but possesses 
some qualities rendering it beneficial to the roots of 
the bush. And if the solution, made according to the 
rule given above, does not kill to the gardener’s satis¬ 
faction, he need have no fears about making it still 
stronger. Twelve gallons of water to two pounds of 
soap will effect more certain death to the worm, 
while it will be quite harmless to the shrub and its 
fruit Rob’t N. Parke. 
Waterloo, N. Y., June, 1861. 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker: —With your permission 
I will give some account of the fruit prospects in this 
section of our State. Apples promise to be ft large 
crop. Peaches will be say one-half of a good crop. 
In most of our peach orchards peach blossoms were 
iliiuly aiiown, out what did bloom have nearly all set 
for fruit. It would bo hard to tell where one blossom 
has failed In being followed by an embryo peach. In 
going east from here peaches will be more scarco as 
you approach the center of the State. In the eastern 
half the papers all speak very dlscouragingly of the 
prospects of this Iruit. But, going west from here 
the crop will be increased till we reach the lake, 
which is thirty miles. From different points along 
the shore of Lake Michigan, I learn by private cor¬ 
respondence that a full crop is growing. 
In good locations and soil ou the shore of Lake 
Michigan, the peach crop is as sure aB any crop. 
Rveu hack as far as this city there has never been an 
entire failure. In the winter of 1865—<>, a large share 
of our forest trees were injured,— some, I believe, 
Were entirely killed. But in some locations we had 
good crops the summer following. Since the settle¬ 
ment of the country there has not been an entire fail¬ 
ure of peaches. 
LICE ON THE NORWAY SPRUCE 
Having received from a correspondent a branch of 
the Norway Spruce covered with small lice, which 
were evidently destroying it, we forwarded the speci¬ 
men to our ever attentive friend, Jacob Stauffer, 
Esq., who sends us the following reply. Accom¬ 
panying were some (lies, which it was thought might 
have some connection with the enemy. 
Eds. Rural Nkw-Yorkku: — Mr. Dyer's letter, 
inclosing sprigs of Norway Spruce, together with 
the plant lice infesting and threatening to kill his 
trees, have been examined. I regret that he did not 
inclose some of the specimens in a quill and find 
some winged individuals. The small fly he inclosed 
is not the parent of thoBe lice, because it ia a true fly, 
Diptera, and belongs to the common houae-fly family, 
(two winged,) while the “ lice” belong to the order 
Homoptera, section Dimera — quite a different fam¬ 
ily, (fonr winged.) 
From the dry and fragmentary remains, I am 
inclined to believe this to be a species not yet de¬ 
scribed, since it is not the Lachnus strohi, Fitch. 
These live in colonies on the ends of the branches, 
puncturing them and extracting their juices, and 
belong to the Aphidcc. And, though the antennae and 
notched head agree with the family PuylUdac, it is 
not the Diraphtra femoralis, Fitch. The only speci¬ 
men of which ho had yet met with was beat from 
pine leaves iri July. The antenme of those inclosed 
agree with a figure given by Westwood, of a British 
species of Psylla? Fitch also describes the pine-leaf 
Chernies — C. Pmifulice, a new species. These, be 
says, are “stationary upon the leaves, usually to¬ 
wards their ends, puncturing them and sucking their 
juices. A very small black tly, 0.08 long to the tip of 
its abdomen, and 0.12 to the end of its wings, which 
are dusky gray, its abdomen dusky red and slightly 
covered with fine cottony down.” “ The antenme,” 
he says, “are Bhort, threadlike, and composed of 
4-5 small joints. It will hence be seen that this 
insect is a true Chermes — the first species of this 
genus that has been discovered in this country,” 
I would be obliged to Mr. Dyer if he would inclose 
me winged and wingless specimens, in a quill, so 
that I could make a careful examination of the insect. 
To the question—“What will kill them?” I will 
first quote Mr. Knapp, who soys—“that remedies 
can prove efficacious in removing this evil only upon 
a small scale, and that when the injury has existed 
for some time, and extended its influence over the 
parts of a large tree, it will take its course, and the 
tree will die.” This is not very consolatory I admit, 
yet when trees are small, by bending the branchlets 
into a bucket containing warm soap suds, and pad¬ 
dling them in it, they may be destroyed to a great 
extent; or by making a decoction of soap and 
tobacco — syringing the tree with some force will 
dislodge them. Heavy showers of rain often dis¬ 
lodge them, and a long spell of wet weather favors 
their extermination. 
The Plant-lice, called Aphidians, differ from Psylla, 
which latter are the leaping plant-lice; both, like the 
Thrips, (which latter are minute and slender insects,) 
all prove obnoxious to vegetation, which they punc¬ 
ture and appear to poison, often producing deform¬ 
ities in the leaves and blossoms. They are very pro¬ 
lific, and in one form or another infest almost all 
parts of plants, the root, stems, young shoots, buds 
and leaves, and there is scarcely a plant which does 
not harbor oue or two kinds peculiar to itself, as is 
also stated by Mr. Harris, whose words 1 have 
quoted in part, as corroborative of my own observa¬ 
tions. The Aphidians embrace twelve distinct genera 
and gtUjSWM 
Plants for Name. — I send par nxpressto yon from Geneva 
a small package of flowers Tor name. I have labeled a part of 
them, though I do not fully know whether 1 am right, aud 
in other# iiamre me wanting. 
1. Spirted prunifulia Jl. pi .— About out of bloom; very 
hardy, and magnificent. 
2. Spit tea. laneralala. —Very badly winterkills, and does 
not flower well 
3. Spirtva Jiesvesii .—Ends of branches always winter kill, 
but always blooms pretty well. 
4. Spirtva (tiftiiie wanting )—Very Imrdy, profuse bloomer, 
auckers freely, and will take care of itself anywhere. 
6. '/Vee (name wanting. )—This is a small tree which I pro 
cured some two or three years since, either from the edge 
of u worn! or a swamp, 1 do not know which, as 1 wa* getting 
trees from both places at that time. It in a small tree. At 
the time of planting. I cut the L.p off some six or never, feet, 
from the ground. The wood is rather pithy, somewhat like 
the poplars. It has thrown up several small suckers this 
spring, which may indicate its being a large stuiib. It was 
early in flower, and very Tragrant. Flowers single — petals 
white, with pink streak at bottom stamens prominent, pink. 
Thin is os near as I recollect. Now, if you can lavnr me iu 
naming any or all of the foregoing, you will much oblige - 
G. S. B., West Fayette, Seneca (‘a.. ,V. ¥.. 1801. 
Numbers 1 and 2 are correct. Lancealala suffered here a 
little the past winter, but is usually perfectly hardy, and we 
think it one of the hest or the family. 3 is C hummlrifoHa, 
or Germander I.eavetl, and not Ite.r.vcsii. 4, Ut mi folia 5, 
Cyrus arbullfalia, a small tree. 
Crr.TniK of Ntrawiikkrikm.— Can J, as a new subscriber, 
ask a few questions? Should strawberries bo stirred or uulti 
vated during the fruiting season? Will snrne one, who has, 
experimented with strawberries, please say through this useful 
and satisfactory medium, what variety or varieties arc most 
advisable to get, and where to get them? I would like to give 
my experience though limited. Where can 1 get, seed of the 
new double Zinnia? What is the mode of treatment for 
Calceolaria? Will it bear budding out?— N. P. Jacobs, 
BrldyeolUc, Del., 1861. 
Strawberries, If well cultivated up to about the timo of 
(lowering will need no further culture until the fruit is ripe, 
especially if the ground Is mulched with straw or cut grass. 
Mulching keeps the fruit clean and the ground moist. It 
would he almost impossible to (ind three persons to agree us 
to the heat six varieties of strawberries. Double SUnnia seed 
cannot now be hud, we think. The Calceolarias do not like 
our hot sun. Ilugnsa, yellow, and Meteor, dark red, are 
the best for bedding. If they can have a little shade, all the 
better. 
Dyeing Recipes, Ac. — An^inqniry from “ A Sub¬ 
scriber,” in the Rural of Juno 8tb, calls for coloring 
recipes for yellow and orange. Here are good ones: 
For Yellow — Six ounces bicromato of potash 
dissolved In cold water enough for a dye, J lb. sugar- 
lead sufficient for your cloth. Both may he made in 
tin or brass. Dip first in the lead water, then in the 
potash, and so alternately until the color suits, then 
riuse In cold water. 
For Orange — Make a strong lime water and 
drain. When clear, heat to boiling, dip in your yel¬ 
low and rinse in cold water immediately. 
Preserving Pink-Apples — Will some one give a 
good recipe fur preserving pine-apples, und oblige— 
Aunt Libby — M'tUford, Otsego Co., N. V., 1801. 
I will here say, that any young man 
who has the taste and patience to wait, and is at lib¬ 
erty to go to the western part of thiB State, can make 
a fortune in the business of peach growing. Five 
and six dollars per bushel is the ordinary price for 
good peaches in Milwaukee and Chicago. It needs 
no farther statements to show that the business will 
pay where the crop is a sure one. In 1859, one man 
at St. Joseph Hold $11,000 worth of peaches from 
fifteen acres of orchard, and from the same ground 
in I860 he took $7,000 in cash,—the crop not being 
80 large as the former year. 
We shall all have plums, who are willing to earn 
them dearly in fighting the curculio. Cherries 
promise well with some, — Morellos are all full. 
Pears also full. Grapes coine out in fine condition, 
and are finely setting. In fact I know of nothing in 
Abolition of Insect Pests. —As our houses and 
gardens are always, more or less, infested with ver¬ 
min, it is satisfactory to know thai benzine, an article 
become sufficiently well known ns a detergent, is no 
less efficacious an agent in insecticide. One or two 
drops arc sufficient to asphyxiate the most redoubt¬ 
able insect pest, he It beetle, cockchafer, spider, slug, 
caterpillar, or other creeping thiug. Even rats and 
mice will speedily decamp from any place sprinkled 
with a few drops of the potent benzine. A singular 
fact connected with this application of benzine is, 
that the bodies of insects killed by it become so 
rigid, that their wings, legs, etc., will break rather 
than bend, if touched. Next (lay, however, when 
the benzine has evaporated, suppleness is restored. 
London Chronicle. 
Preserving Tomatoes without Cooking — Can 
some of the numerous intelligent contributors to the 
Rural inform a dyspeptic subscriber how to preserve 
tomatoes through the. winter season without cooking 
or heating them? The application of heat in the 
usual way of preserving them, renders them to acid for 
some dyspeptics, and drying them iu the sun deprives 
them of most of their fine flavor. Giving the asked 
for information, I have no doubt will greatly favor 
many invalid readers and subscribers, who are bene¬ 
fited by the use of the uncooked ripe tomato.—S. D. 
Scott, Fulton Co., Pa., 1861, 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker:—A lthough my vocation 
is not so much agricultural as political, I take the 
liberty of writing to you on the subject of the troose- 
berry Saw-Fly Worm, moved thereunto by an inter¬ 
esting article ou that subject in your )a>t issue. 
A year ago this last spring, I purchased from a 
Rochester nursery, and transplanted in my garden, 
several new varieties of gooseberry. They grew 
well, until, one day in the month of June, to my 
astonishment I “noticed” (we editors occasionally 
"notice,” you know,) that my bushes were nearly 
stripped of their leaves. On a closer examination, I 
found the caase in the saw-fly worm—an insect which 
never came nnder my observation previously, al¬ 
though 1 have always cultivated gooseberries. I 
promptly adopted remedies. I covered my bushes 
with powdered lime; no uBe. I covered them with 
ashes; no use. I thoroughly wet them with a decoc¬ 
tion of whale oil soap; again no use. Then I went 
at them by hand, with better success; but with the 
idea uppermost in my mind, that I was “looking for 
a needle iu a haymow.” I whipped them with aspa¬ 
ragus bushes—I ground them into powder with my 
heel—but still I was continually discovering speci¬ 
mens of the enemy. I found, too, that they were 
preying upon my old bashes; and thus the fall found 
me, fighting valiantly, but still defeated. 
A hint in your paper seemed to give me another 
chauce; and. I at once mulched them, old and new 
alike, heavily with tanbark; and, to my gratification, 
I have not this season, so far, seen a single specimen 
of the saw-fly worm. Perhaps I am crying before I 
Ashes for Fruit Tkkkb.— Will some of the readers of 
your valuable paper inform me, through its col 11 runs, whether 
un leached ashes are injurious to youug fruit trees, when 
applied to the roots? Here they are recommended by some 
and condemned by others —G. M. M., North White Creek, ,V. 
K, 1861. 
Unleached ashes are excellent for fruit trees in most soils, 
and particularly so for thu peach. They are of most benefit 
in a very light or a very heavy soil. The only exception to 
this rule is the cherry, which we have found a heavy dressing 
of ashes to injure. Care must be used, so that the ashes will 
not come id contact with the trunk or the roots. Use them 
as a top-dressing. 
War!—-Plan for a Campaign Wanted. —bast spring I set 
out a bed of strawberry plants, aud for a short time they 
thrived, hut soon began to will aud die. Upon pulling up 
the plants, I found that the root# were eaten ofT, and at the 
root of each plaut was a trig, fat orub worm.. 1 applied ou- 
leached ashes and plaster Irei ly, but seemingly to no effect. 
Can any ooe tell me how to exterminate the enemy?—W. W, 
Lowry, Inverness. N 1'., 1861. 
Two or three seasons ago this grub was very destructive to 
strawberries here, but has been lets so since. We know of 
no way to destroy them hat catching und killing them. It 
will not do to let Ihern go ou their parole of honor, nordo we 
think it best to trust to their oath of allegiance. 
Moths in Carpets. —Will some one inform me, 
through the Rural, how to destroy moths in carpets. 
Also how to crystalize grass different colors—blue, 
green, Ac., and oblige—E. C. J., “ Rural Cottage,” 
West Vienna, N. Y., 1861. 
Early Peas. — We are indebted to M. Button, of Ironde- 
quoit, for samples of Early Peas picked the 15th iust. This 
Is pretty good for the present backward season. 
To Dkbtrgy Worms on Fruit Tkkeb.— 1). Cargo, of Ohio, 
says he shakes them from the trees. A better way is to tie 
straw to a long pole and set it ou tire, then pass it back and 
forth under them a few times. It is cheap aud easy to try. 
Worms frequently make nests on limbs llutt can be got at 
only by burning.—It. S., IVeslr.ymlle, Erie Co., /Vim. 
The Apple Trade of Cincinnati. —In a report to the 
Chamber of Commerce of Cincinnati, it is stated that, for 
the year ending August 1st, I860, the importation of apples 
in barrels was 95,000 barrels, and the exports 25,000 — Bhow 
ing a consumption of 70,000 in the city. This amount does 
not include those brought into the city and sold from wagons. 
The price pel barrel averaged $3—(the highest and lowest 
quotations being $5 and $2,) amounting to $290,000. 
Graham and Corn Bread. — Will some of the 
lady readers of the Rural please give me, through 
its columns, the best method of making Graham 
Bread, also Corn Bread, and obliged—A Dyspeptic, 
Rockford, III., 1861. 
Treatment ok Runners.— I have set out a bed of straw¬ 
berries, aod the vines are beginning to run. How will it do 
to keep them cut off all summer?—K. 8., Wetleyville, Erie 
Co., Penn., 1861. 
The original plants will be much larger and stronger by 
removing the runners. 
Diseased Peak Wood. — (S. L., Sharon., N. YJ— Your 
trees, we judge, are affected with the pear blight, a disease 
very troublesome here, aud in regard to the origin of which 
little Is known. The only core is to remove every branch as 
soon aB it is found to be affected. 
Rancid Butter and Lard. — Can some of the 
numerous readers of the Rural inform me through 
its columns of a remedy for rancid butter or lard, 
and oblige — A Subscriber, Lockport, N. V., 1861. 
Soda Mead. —Will some of the readers of the 
Rural please give a recipe for making Soda Mead, 
also telling us how to manufacture?— Inquirer, 1861. 
