you destroy its powers of cohesion. So if you 
permit a tree to bear beyond its strength, you 
injure its fruit, retard its growth, and shorten 
its life. All have observed that e-aperfecundity 
one year produces barrenness the next. Hence 
we hear among our farmers aud gardeners what 
they term the bearing year. They invariably 
designate the Baldwin apple as a tree that bears 
on alternate years. But is not the cause of this 
alternation found in the fact that the abundant 
crop of the bearing year exhausts the energies 
of the tree and absorbs the pabulum so as not to 
leave sufficient aliment for the formation of 
fruit spurs for the second year ? Many varieties 
have a tendency to overbearing, especially those 
which produce their fruit in clusters. Nature 
herself teaches us the remedy for this evil, and 
superabundance of blossoms is generally follow¬ 
ed by a profuse falling of the embryo fruit. 
When and where this dropping is not sufficient 
to prevent overbearing, we should resort to the 
process of relieving the tree'of jsome of it 3 fruit. 
The organism which carries on healthlul de¬ 
velopment, in order to repeat its cycle of func¬ 
tions from year to year, cannot be overworked 
without time for recuperation. Whatever of 
nutrition goes to the support of useless branches, 
or a redundancy of fruit, abstracts that strength 
from the tree which would otherwise be appro¬ 
priated to the perfection of the crop and the de¬ 
velopment of the spurs which would bear fruit 
the next year.— M. P. Wilder. 
VARIOUS RECIPES, 
Indian Pudding.— Take 2 quarts of milk ; p U f 
it ° n and let it come to a scalding heat; then 
then stir in Indian meal until it is about as thick 
as molasses; then let It cool till lukewarm ; heat 
4 eggs and 1 cup of sugar together, atir in; 
grate )4 nutmeg in, and 1 spoon salt; put into a 
pan and bake slowly till done; then serve with 
sauce while hot. 
_jCcp Cake.— One cup butter; 3 cups sugar;' 3 
cups flour; 4 eggs; l cap sweet milk, a little 
nutmeg; 2 teaspoons cream tartar; 1 of soda. 
Wedding Cakb.— Break 10 eggs Into a basin; 
put them near the fire to warm; 1 lb. lreah but¬ 
ter, work it with the hand to a cream; then mix 
1 ft. of sifted loaf sugar; add 2 of the eggs 
beaten up in a basin at a time; when done add 
1 ft. of flour mixed gently in; then 2±x fts. of 
currants; % ft. candied lemon peel; }£ ft. 0r . 
ange do; ]i ft. citron do; 3 ozs. of blanched 
almonds; oz. mixed spice; 2 nutmegs grated; 
1 wine giass brandy. The candied peel must 
not be cut to fine. The almonds are to be sliced 
and the whole mixed together and baked in a 
papered tin and in a moderate oven. The icing 
should be given to the confectioner to perform, 
—M. A. K., Clinton, M. F. 
VEGETABLE GARDEN 
Steamed Dumplings. —Two cups sour milk, 
1 oftcream, 1 teaspoon soda thoroughly dis- 
oolved; turn Into flour and mix as you would 
biscuit; roll out and spread on whatever fruit 
you wish, then roll it together and put in a cloth 
and steam one hour. Serve with wine sauce or 
sweetened cream. u ... 
Johnny Cake. —One cup sour milk, 1 cup of 
cream, 1 of sweet milk, 1 egg, 2 tablespoons of 
sugar, 1 do. of butter, 1 pint of meal, 1 cup of 
flour, 1 teaspoon soda, a little salt; stir well to¬ 
gether, then add 1 lb. of fruit, and you have 
something worth eating. Add the fruit or not, 
as you choose.—J. 31.1. 
As soon as your vegetable crops are past 
kitchen use, clear them out. Never suffer them 
to seed. In the first place, a seed crop exhausts 
the soil more than two crops taken off in an eat¬ 
able condition; in the next place, the refuse of 
the kitchen is likely to produce degenerate 
stocks. Good seed-saving is a special art by 
itself, always claiming the earliest and best to 
ensure a perfect stock. 
Celery will require earthing up as it grows, to 
get it to blanch well. It is not well, however, 
to commence too early, as earthing up tends, in 
a slight degree, to weaken the growth of the 
plants. Take care, also, not to let the soil get 
into the heart in earthing, or the crown is apt 
to rot. i 
As fast as endive is desired for salad, it should 
be blanched. Matting thrown over is the best 
for this purpose, as the plants are not so liable 
to rot us when pots Or boards are employed. 
In cold or mountainous regions, melons are 
hastened in the ripening process, and improved 
in flavor, by a piece of tile being placed under 
the fruit. 
Keep weeds from your compost heaps, as they 
exhaust the soil, and bear seed for future brow- 
sweatings. 
Sow Lettuce for fall crop, thinly, and in deep 
and very rich ground. 
Early Valentine Beans may still be sown early 
in the month,—the soil for a late crop should be 
well trenched, or, if the tall be dry, they will be 
stringy and tough. 
Cucumbers, squash, and other similar plants, 
often suffer from drougth at this season. Cold 
water does not help them much, but a mulching 
of half-rotten leaves strengthens them con¬ 
siderably. 
Cut down straggling herbs, and they will 
make new heads for next season. 
Towards the end of the month, a sowing of 
PHLOX — JCLIA ROUSSEL 
profitably on a large scale here, twenty-five 
miles from the south shore of Lake Erie, except 
in a sheltered and otherwise favored position. 
Hudson, Ohio, 1665. H, H. 
The above is worthy of attention. We know 
of no remedy for late spring frosts, except the 
one suggested, the protection of trees or build- 
ings. It is a satisfaction, however, to know that 
even in unfavorable localities every man can sit 
under bis own vine and have plenty of delicious 
grapes for family use. 
hot suns ; but a much better plan is to shade. 
Inverted 4-inch flower-pots are excellent for this 
purpose; they may be taken off at night. The 
dews will so invigorate them that the shade will 
only be required for a few days. Sometimes in 
September they may need a good watering; but 
this should never be attempted unless a thorough 
saturation of the bed is given; and in a few 
days alter, the hoe and the rake should be em¬ 
ployed to loosen and level the surface, which the 
heavy waterings will, in all probability, have 
caused to bake and become Tery crusty. Where 
time can be spared to layer a few plants into 3- 
ineh pots, they are very successfully transplant¬ 
ed afterwards, and much after labor in watering 
and shading avoided. 
Strawberries are best grown in beds about 
four feet wide, for the convenience in gathering 
the fruit, and giving them the best of cultiva¬ 
tion. About three rows in a bed, and the plants 
twelve inches apart in the row, will be a good 
arrangement. 
The Grape-vine at this season will require at¬ 
tention, to see that the leaves arc all retained 
healthy till thoroughly ripernd. It is not a sign 
of healthiness for a vi^ to grow late; on the 
contrary, such late growth generally gets killed 
in the winter,—bnt the itUY.sshould all stay on, 
to insure the greatest health to the vine, until 
when they should all be so 
Apple Puddings.—P are and slice your apples, 
place them in a tin pie-plate, a few dried berries 
with them, a very little water; then make a 
crust as you would for pancakes, only a little 
thicker, with flour; turn it all over the apoles, 
and bake half an hour. To be eaten with sugar 
and cream or butter and vinegar—either is good. 
Apple Pies.— 3Iake a nice pastry of lard, Hour, 
a little salt; roll thin, put it on a pie-plate or 
tin; pare and slice your apples thin—a good 
sour apple is best—put on a layer of apples and 
of sugar; a little butter, (a little salt will an¬ 
swer,) a little water, cinnamon and nutmeg; 
cover with a thin crust, and bake till done.— 
Eugenia, Earlville, Madison Co.. A* F. 
MILDEW ON GRAPES 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker;—A s there is much 
trouble and anxiety at this time in regard to 
mildew in grapes, can we not, through the 
Rural, obtain some information in regard to its 
cause and remedy, if there is any ? 
The whole crop in some vineyards In this 
vicinity is entirely ruined, and the foliage and 
yonng wood almost destroyed. 3Iildew is al- 
most as much of a mystery to me as pear blight. 
From the fact, that mildew comes only in moist 
seasons, I think It must be caused by an excess 
of moisture In the Atmosphere. 1 have made a 
re*r obccvt.Uor.o, and found the following facts: 
\ ineyards that have not received good cnltlva 
tion and are full of grass and weeds, are badly 
injured. 8ome vineyards which have received 
good cultivation, but are cropped with potatoes 
or other vegetables, are injured. Some vine¬ 
yards which have been kept clean and have not 
been summer pruned, those in which there is a 
dense mass of foliage, are somewhat injured. 
Vineyards which have been kept entirely clean 
of all grass, weeds, or any crop which would 
gather moisture, and which have been properly 
pruned, are almost free from mildew. From 
these facts, 1 think it is caused by an excess of 
moisture. Cannot some of the practical and 
experienced grape growers give na some light 
in regard to the matter? B U- 
Canandaigua, N. Y„ 1865. 
Pruning and good culture, as suggested, are 
the best preventives of mildew. If after this it 
should attack the fruit, throw a good lump of 
lime in a barrel ot water, add sulphur, and 
syringe the vines with the water after it has 
become settled.. 
Inuian Bread.— One quart of buttermilk, i 
tablespoon even full of saleratus, 1 teaspoon of 
salt, 1 cup of molasses, rye or wheat flour, 
(rye is preferable,) ^ Indian meal. Don’t stir it 
too stiff Bake in one large loaf, in a moderate 
oven for three hours. You will have bread that 
will keep good one week. I took a premium 
on bread made from this recipe last fall, at the 
Columbia county Fair. The judges pronounced 
it superior to anything ever before offered the 
public, and recommended that the recipe should 
be published for the good of the community. 
—M,, Brookside Firm, 
PROTECTION FOR GRAPES 
the trost comes, 
matured as to fall together. Frequent heavy 
syringlngs are amoDgst the best ways to keep 
od insects from out-door grapes, and so protect 
the foliage from their ravages. — Gardener's 
Monthly. 
ORCHARD CATERPILLAR. 
The vast numbers of these caterpillars in 
many parts of the country admonish orchardists 
to destroy them before they make such progress 
agalu as they have the present year. Some 
apple trees have been entirely stripped ofleaves 
— not only rendering a crop impossible, but 
cheeking the growth of the tree at the most im¬ 
portant period of the year, and rendering it 
liable to injury by winter, aud retarding its 
vigor in future. It is net too soon now to com¬ 
mence the destruction of the eggs, which have 
been recently placed up..u the young twigs. As 
they are usually on the projecting shoots, near 
the outside of the tree, the practiced eye will 
quickly detect their presence, and a single clip 
of a pair of orchard shears, placed on the end oi 
a polo, and worked with a cord, will bring them 
to the ground. This is much easier than the 
more laborious and more uncertain process of 
brushing, swabbing, winding, thrashing, pound¬ 
ing and crushing, alter the caterpillars are half 
or wholly grown, fur no individual escapes when 
the tittle ring of eggs Is taken off entire. In the 
autumn, after the leaves have fallen, pass around 
again and clip out the remainder. By going 
through the orchard at le^t two or three times] 
there is less chance for any accidentally hidden 
rings to escape. A cloudy day should be select¬ 
ed, so that the light may not. dazzle or injure 
the eye; aud after some practice, It is surprising 
with what quickness any one may detect these 
rings on the twigs, by a glance over the apple 
tree. Cherry, pear and other trees should be 
examined in the same way. 
A caretul attention to these instructions any 
time before the coming spring will completely 
dear orchards of this pest, and the owner will 
have the satisfaction, as he passes the trees, of 
seeing them lull of healthy foliage, without the 
annoyance of witmssing these huge nests on 
denuded branches .—Country Gentleman. 
How to Fbt Pork.— Fried pork is not very 
good food, especially for dyspeptics; but to 
those who like it, or are compelled to use it for 
the want of other meat, the following mode of 
cooking is recommended as the least objection¬ 
able :—Cut the pork into thin slices, and take 
off the rind. Soak in cold water, to extract the 
salt; roll in dry flour, and fry very slowly until 
just cooked through—no: browned in the least. 
Prepare a thin batter of beaten eggs and a little 
milk and flour, into which dip the pork and re¬ 
turn to the frying-pan just long enough to cook 
the batter.—S. W. Arnold, Cortland, III. 
PINCHING TO PROMOTE FRUITEDLNESS, 
FRUIT GARDEN 
Canning Fruit.—I have discovered a very 
nice way to can fruit, especially strawberries, 
saving what I have always called the labor of 
canning. After putting sugar with them, let 
them stand six hours; then put them in a tin 
can (I use one coffee came in .) Set the can in a 
kettle of cold water; let the fruit boil fifteen 
minutes, putting the cover on the can, allowing 
the water to come to the top of it; then empty 
into your glass jars, they being first warmed by 
rolling in a pan of hot water.—F. L., HsstffejA 
N. F. 
season. The Raspberry ought to be so treated 
in the summer that uo pruning will be required 
tu the spring but to shorten the ends ol the 
canes. In rare kinds, where it is of more im¬ 
portance to get up a stock of young plants, than 
to get a crop of fruit, this advice will not of 
course apply. 
Blackberries will, in the main, reqaire very 
much the same treatment as the Raspberry. 
They are also very liable to sucker up more than 
is desirable, and much attention will be required 
to keep them within due bouuds. Neither of 
these two kinds of fruit should be planted near 
a lawn, as the roots, if they once get into the 
grass, are very difficult of eradicat on, and as 
troublesome as the vilest weeds. 
August and September are favorite months to 
plant out Strawberries, with those who desire a 
crop ot fruit the next season. In making a 
Strawberry bed, a warm, dry spot of ground 
should be chosen, with, if possible, a good loamy 
or clayey subsoil. A moist, wet situation is 
very unfavorable. It is best to subsoil at least 
two leet deep, and, If the soil is poor, let it be 
well enriched with well-decayed stable manure. 
In settlug out, take care that the plants do not 
become dry from the time they are taken up till 
they arc re-planted, and see that they do not 
wither afterwards. Many persons cut off the 
leaves, if they are afraid of their wilting under 
To Cure Cancers.— Take the white of three 
eggs, one teacup of fresh lard and a lump of 
borax the size of a small marble pulveriz d line, 
mix all thoroughly together and apply a plaster 
twice or three times a day, washing off with cas- 
tile soap before applying. Make and take some 
good bitters to keep your blood cleansed. It 
will take from one to two mouths to effect a 
cure. You that are afflicted, try it.—W m. Bur¬ 
lingame, Green Lake , 
their proximity to buildings 1 was able to pro 
tect. lu more than half of the years referred to, 
vines in the open field here have needed winter 
protection—some kind of covering during the 
winter months. This, by taking the trouble, 
eau be perfectly secured. A few inches of soli 
thrown upon the vines, carefully laid down 
“fter pruning in the fall, is all that Is needed 
But how to protect any large number of vines 
from the destructive effects of late spring frosts, 
which occur In more than half of the years, I do 
m,t yet see. Buildings, aud in some cases trees, 
I afford this protection. Vines trained upon my 
| house, aud even upon stakes and trellises several 
leet fr °m it, have generally been, as they arc 
this year, protected and loaded with fruit, while 
I those iu tha open grounds or vineyard were 
| ‘Bmost or entirely destroyed. 
Iu short, the result of this twelve years’ ex- 
1 perkince is a conviction almost as strong as it 
lje > that a good supply of delicious grapes 
y lanfrly use can be grown almost anywhere in 
this region of country, by any one who baa a 
¥ ouse aud home; and thatthev cannot be 
BOUQUET MAKING, 
The modern way to make bouquets is to take 
the flowers separately from their stems, and 
fasten them to any slender and pliable sticks— 
pieces of old corn-brooms preferred. Camelias 
and heavier dowers have slender wires run thro’ 
them to form 8toui«. Fewer flowers are con¬ 
sumed by this plan, and the plants are not so 
much Injured by cutting. They do not last 
quite as long as if every flower had lull length 
natural stems; but with occasional sprinkling 
of the bouquets with water there is not much 
ditTVrencO. Besides, these pliable stems allow 
of betterforms tortile bouquet. Thev are fixed 
round a central stick, with due string, to turrn 
the bouquet; and as the flowers are being put in 
a stuffing of cedar or ground pine tied in, to 
give the bouquet a full form. A five minute’s 
Usson from a nouquet-uiuKcr, or pulling an old 
bouquet carefully to pieces, would do more to 
make all clear than an hour’s reading.— Garden¬ 
er's Monthly. 
M.vkinq Cider. —In aspeech on cider making, 
before the Ohio Pom. Society, Mr, Ragan said 
he considered it absolutely essential that the 
apples intended for cider should be sound. 
Cloths should be used in pressing, to prevent 
the accumulation of pommies, as this is a great 
cause of fermentation. The apples should stand 
about thirty-six hours before being pressed, and 
will be sweeter when made in this way. He 
considers it important that no sir be allowed to 
get to the cider when beiug drawn off A Mr. 
Fisher thought it a bad plan to grtud apples 
with a cast iron mill. He would also have the 
apples pressed very soon after being ground, as 
otherwise the cider would become bitter. 
THINNING OF FRUIT 
One lesson which experience has taught us, is 
the importance ot thinning the fruit, especially 
of apples and pears. This branch of pomology 
has received comparatively but little attention. 
There Is a limit to the capucity of all created 
thiugs. it you tax the energies ot an animal too 
severely for a long time, the result will be pre¬ 
mature age and decay. Subject any vegetable 
or mineral substance to too great pressure, and 
