Europkax Flowrr Harvest.— From an interesting paper 
in All the Year Round, we learn that “ the chief places for 
the growth of the sweet perfume-producing flowers are 
Montpelier, Savoy, Grasse, Nismes, Cannes, and Nice. Nice 
alone produces a harvest of a hundred thousand pounds of 
orange blossoms, and C'nnnes us much again, and of a fine 
o;’ ^J-1ve hundred pounds of orange blossoms yield about 
tw^Foinds of pure Neroly oil. AtCannestheaccaeia thrives 
particularly well, and produces yearly about nine thousand 
pounds of blossoms. 
milk; the older the better, if it has not begun to turn. 
After taking them off, which must not be done until 
they are dry, Btretch them a little each way to break 
the gloss. 
To Destroy: Ants. — Put a small quantity of 
molasses in shallow dishes, and place them near the 
rendezvous of the ants. Be on the watch, and as 
soon as the dishes are covered with ingests, carry a 
pail of hot water to each dish, take it up quietly and 
immerse in the water. Repeat the process until 
they are cleared out. This is the only method I 
have ever found to destroy them. Spirits of tur¬ 
pentine, camphor gum, See., only drives them to 
another place to make their nests; but a sweet bait 
they cannot resist. 
N. B.—The eggs will hatch so that you may have 
a second or third crop to contend with; but if you 
do your work thoroughly this year, it will not have 
to be repeated next. 
Shrewsbury Cakes. — Father says, “Send a 
recipe for making Shrewsbury cakes.” Sift a pound 
of sugar, some pounded cinnamon, and a nutmeg 
grated, into three pounds of fine flour; add a little 
I rosewater, to three eggs well beaten, and mix with 
the flour; then pour into it as much melted butter 
as will make it a good thickness to roll out. Mold 
it well and roll thin, and cut it into such shapes as 
you like. A few caraway seods improve it. I have 
known these cakes to keep from January till the 
last of June, and at the expiration of the time they 
were as good as when first made.— Myra Venson, 
Wurrenham, Pen n., 1802. 
NOTES IN THE GABDEN 
For several weeks we have had frequent and 
heavy showers, and a rapid growth ot everything 
has been the result. The weeds have done well 
their part: and as the soil has been too wet to admit, 
of working, our gardens show the want of dry 
weather and labor. 
Ono great perfumery distillery at Counes 
uses yearly about one hundred and forty thousand pounds of 
orange Woesome, twenty thousand pouuds of accaoia flowers, 
a hundred and forty thousand pounds of rose leaves, thirty- 
two thousand pound* of jasmine blossoms, twenty thousand 
pounds of tuberoses, together with a great many cither sweet 
herb*. The extraction of editorial nils, the small quantities of 
which are mixed in the flowers with such large quantities of 
other vegetable juices that it requires about, six hundred 
pounds of rose leave* to win one ounce of otto of roses, of 
course demands a very careful treatment. 
"Nice and Cannes are the paradise of violets, producing 
annually something like thirteen thousand pounds of blossoms. 
The variety cultivated is generally the double Or Parma violet, 
which 1b bo productive that the flowers are sold at about tiro 
pence per pound; and we all know what sort of bouquet a 
pound of violets would make. 
“In Sicily the crimson grenade and rose trees, the peach 
colored rhododendrons, and the delicate white camellias. 
The white and green myrtles, and 
Flower* that were not properly 
staked have been beaten down ; and many, no doubt, 
have felt the necessity of more care iD this respect. 
No garden can be kept neat during the season, un¬ 
less all plants requiring it are well staked. Good 
neat stakes should be provided in the fall or winter, 
sharpened, put in proper order, and stored away 
until needed. If this is neglected, when the time 
comes for their use they will not be on hand. For 
tying, any soit string will answer, but nothing is 
so appropriate and useful as basswood bark, and 
enough for a season’s use can be procured at any of 
tbe nurseries for a few pennies. 
Notwithstanding the excitement caused by the 
condition of our country, we are happy to state that 
the horticulture of the Northern States was never in 
a more bopefnl condition, and our horticultural 
shows were never before so creditable. Most ol the 
trash that burtbenod our exhibitions a few years 
since has been discarded, and we now show flowers 
that would be considered creditable in auy country. 
A lady of Watertown, N. Y,, writes us: “My Japan 
Pinks are very double and line, several of my Zin¬ 
nias are large and double, and my Stocks are splen¬ 
did. We had a floral fair, three weeks since, and 
the show of flowers was quite creditable. I had the 
good fortune to be awarded about twenty-four dol¬ 
lars in premiums. My garden is now (August 7th) 
splendid, but suffering for want of rain.” There are 
many such ardent amateurs in all sections of the 
land, who are exerting a happy influence ou all 
around. They have a glorious mission, and we long 
for the time when the sword shall be returned to the 
gcabbard, if not turned into pruning hooks, and our 
young men devote their energies to the peaceful 
pursuits of agriculture, the development of the great 
resources of our country, and the study ol fruits and 
flowers, and all the elevating and refining arts of 
civilized life. 
Keep the garden in good order until the end of 
the season. Many start well, but late in the sum¬ 
mer their gardens look unsightly. This should not 
be. Everything should be kept in the best possible 
condition until frost. Arrange things so that when 
a flower fades you can replace it by one just coming 
into bloom, and allow no bed to go bare. This rule 
should be rigidly observed, even in the vegetable 
garden. When the early peas are gone, put in late 
cabbage, or celery; aud as you dig potatoes, rake 
off nicely and sow a little turnip seed. 
form the country hedges, 
pink, white, and flame-shaped and flame-colored tulips, grow 
wild. When a pleasure garden is made, the orange and 
lemon trees are taken out, because they are too common. 
The roses, violets, jasmine, and mignonette, are cultivated 
only by the peasants for perfumery purposes, and honored 
but as we honor potatoes and cabbages.” 
calyx long, firm, and entire; the petals broad, 
smooth, and free from indenture on the edge. The 
outside petals should rise above the calyx and turn 
in a horizontal direction. The interior petals 
should gradually decrease in size toward the center 
of the flower, each row of petals being regularly 
disposed alike on every side, and imbricating each 
other. The colors, whether Bizarre or Flake , should 
be strong, brilliant, and distinct throughout B\- 
zarres , or such as contain two colors upon a white 
ground, are esteemed preferable to Flakes. The 
ground color should be a pure white, free from spots 
or tinge of any sort, the flakes broad and bold, 
commencing at the extreme edge of the petal, and 
running through to the center of the flower, dimin¬ 
ishing in breadth as they approach the center in the 
same ratio as (he petal. The distribution of colors 
should be equal. In a Flake , not less than three 
divisions in each petal. In a Bizarre , not less than 
five. The form of the flower, when looked at from 
above, should be circular; and when viewed from 
the side, present a semi-globular appearance; the 
size of the flower uot less than three inches in diam¬ 
eter, and should contain a sufficient number of 
petals to give it a bold but not too full appearance. 
Seventeen large, well shaped petals is the smallest 
number that a first rate floiver should contain. 
The Ficotke.—A first rate Picotee should pre¬ 
sent a full, round flower, with broad and well formed 
petals; the color, whatever it may be, confined to 
the edge of the petal, and the lower part of the petal 
of a pure white; the color regular, and at an equal 
distance from the edge of the petal all round the 
flower, each petal exhibiting the same regularity of 
coloring throughout. It is well enough to judge 
the merits of our flowers by this standard, but we 
shall be exceedingly fortunate if we obtain perfect 
specimens, according to these rules, and we may 
have very fine flowers without it 
Seed may be sown in a good mellow soil any time 
in May or June. If they come up so thick as to 
crowd each other, a part or all may be transplanted 
as soon as they are of sufficient size, which will be 
some three or four weeks after they appear above 
ground; but if not crowded, keep the weeds down 
and the soil mellow until late in September or Octo¬ 
ber, and then transplant to where you wish the 
plants to flower next season. Make a good, mellow, 
rich bed lor them to flower in. Rotten turf and hen 
manure will grow Carnations better than anything 
else we have tried. As soon as the flower stems 
shoot up, provide a neat, strong stake for each plant, 
and to this tie the flower stems, not tight, but 
“looped” in a graceful manner, and this tying 
must be continued as growth is made; Remove 
worthless flowers, as before recommended, and layer 
those that come nearest perfection. 
Carnations and Picotees, when young, endnre our 
winters without the least, injury, if put in a dry 
place, where the water will not stand. It is well 
enough, however, to throw a few leaves over them 
in the autumn. The next season the plants will 
suffer; that is, those two years of age and having 
flowered once; and many, if not, all, will be ruinod. 
All that >ve wish to save, therefore, must be lay¬ 
ered, as in this way young plants are obtained that 
will bear the winter. The only way in which we 
have been able to save old plants, with any degree 
of certainty, is to take them up in October, prune 
off some of the longest, straggling branches, and re¬ 
plant, considerable deeper than before, so that there 
will be no old wood above ground. 
The grape crop of Ohio is threatened by rot, which prevails 
to an unusual extent. At the late meeting of the Vine 
Growers 1 Association in Cincinnati, several members stated 
that they would lose one half their crop. 
Bleacuing Soap. — The women of Holland are 
celebrated all over the world fop the whiteness of 
their linen, and the perfect neatness everywhere 
visible in their dwellings. They make a great use 
of borax in their washing, which not only cleanses 
the clothes, but whitens them without injuring the 
fabric. The washerwomen who use this article are 
never troubled with “chapped hands” in the cold 
season, as it is very healing. A soap is made of 
borax in the following manner:—To two pounds of 
common yellow soap sliced thin, add two quarts of 
water and half an ounce of borax. Set it ou fire 
and let it melt and boil up, then pour off into an 
earthen or ivooden vessel and add a gallon of cold 
water, stir well, and leave to cool, when it will be 
lit to use. Those who have once tried this soap will 
never do without, it. 
Figs,— Figs are extensively cultivated in California; and 
some of them raised and cured in the Sacramento Valley, are 
said to be equal to any produced in Turkey. 
gmjuivUis ana gtnswm 
Blight ox Pear Leaves. — I inclose a specimen of loaves 
from a Virgalieu or White Doyenne pear tree, which are 
spotted, hut from what cause I am tumble to determine. The 
leaves upon the tree, excepting upon tho wood of tins year’* 
growth, are nearly all like the inclosed. The tree is growing 
thriftily, and has runny pears growing upon it The free 
grew pears for the fir«t. time lust year; tho leaves and fruit 
both being similarly affected to these. Can you tell me tho 
cause, atid point out a remedy' 1 I have other trees of other 
varieties...Flemish Benuty. Bartlett, and twoorfhre*dwarfs— 
which do not as yet show any ngns of being affected like this. 
I have ono Seek I -1 which is affected like this. This lias also 
fruit upon it. None of the others have excepting one dwarf 
I have also a seedling grape which blossomed and blasted 
last year, and is doing the same this year, it being now quite 
full of blossoms, which are all blasting. The title is five 
years from the seed, and is growing vory thriftily, although 
all of iu lirst blossom buds aud leaves were entirely killed by 
the hard frost we had about the last of May. I have consulted 
Phix and others, hut do not find anything said regarding the 
blasting of blossoms. What is the reason of its blasting, and 
what remedy shall I apply to cure it?—C. O. N.. Homer , A". 
Y., 1862. 
Tour pear leaves are affected with a mildew, very similar to 
that which causes the fruit to crack. Tho cause aud cure are 
unknown. Your seedling is doubtless naturally barren, pro¬ 
ducing only statninate flowers. There is no cure but to get 
a better plant 
Saving Hollyhocks. — I have now a number of very fine 
hollyhocks which 1 wish to save, t have thus far had but 
poor success in keeping tine varieties. They die out. What 
course shall J pursue to keep them?—A mateur. 
The flowering Btalks are hollow, and when cut off after 
flowering, they hold water, which descends to the roots, caus¬ 
ing them to rot. They should be cut down to the root, In a 
dry time, or be allowed to remain as long as they will. The 
best way, however, is to take up the plants after flowering 
and divide the roots, givingone crown to each division. Then 
put them out in a dry place, where the water will not stand in 
the winter or spring, and you will have good, strong plants 
next season. 
Washing Sii.k.— No person should ever wring or 
crush a piece of silk when it, is wet, because the 
creases thus made will remain forever, if the silk is 
thick and hard. The way to wash silk is to spread 
it smoothly upon a clean board, rub with white 
soap upon it, and brush it with a clean hard brush. 
The. silk must be rubbed until the grease is ex¬ 
tracted, then the soap should be brushed off with 
clean cold water, applied to both sides. The cleans¬ 
ing of silk is a very nice operation. Most of the 
colors are liable to be extracted with washing in 
hot suds, especially blue and green colors. A little 
alum dissolved in the last water that is brushed on 
the silk, tends to prevent the colors from running. 
Alcohol and camphene, mixed together, is u^ed for 
removing grease from silk. —Scientific American. 
BLACK CURRANT—BANG UP. 
dered, as seen in the engraving. The berries bang 
ou the bunches well, and we are much pleased with 
it. It bids lair to be a very valuable sort 
The roots of the black currant are short and 
fibrous, and consequently it has a small space in 
which to gather food. It is also a great feeder, and 
therefore requires a liberal supply of manure. One 
season of good treatment will convince the cultiva¬ 
tor of this fact 
There are other varieties of currants, but the 
above are the leading and best sorts. 
The currant and gooseberry require a somewhat 
similar treatment The currant bush, as we gener¬ 
ally see it, is but an ungainly stump, surrounded 
with a thicket of suckers. Let the pruning knife be 
judiciously applied. Remove all suckers, and have 
a clean stem from six to ten inches high, and a 
pretty round head, with the branches kept suffi¬ 
ciently thinned out to admit light and air freely. 
Then, every year give a good dressing of well- 
rotted manure, and you will have plants that you 
will good reason to be proud of, and fruit that your 
friends will mistake for grapes. The shoots of the 
previous year’s growth should be shortened in every 
spring, as this will induce the formation of fruit- 
spurs. The black currants, however, bear princi¬ 
pally on the wood of the previous year’s growth. 
We have succeeded in making good plants and in 
growing fine fruit, by allowiug about four branches 
to start from the ground, 
THE CARNATION AND PICOTEE 
These are our favorite flowers, not exceeded for 
beauty and fragrance even by the Queen of 
Flowers, the Rose and while, yvo always have a 
pretty good show of fair specimens, of late we 
have pursued a course which has proved very suc¬ 
cessful, and will in a little time give us a good col¬ 
lection of fine flowurs. Our plan we will give, as it 
gives the information sought in the following 
inquiry: 
Eos. Rural Nkw-Yorkkr:—How can I get a good collec¬ 
tion of Carnations and Pieoteon, such as we “ read about?” 
In the nurseries we don’t often see them good, and if we get 
a fair one, it soon dies out, and from seed we raise only the 
poorest tilings, mostly single. Now, when a boy, the Cam a 
tioa was my favorite flower, and grew well, and without great 
oare. For beauty they are not excelled by anything, except, 
perhaps, ttie rose, and for fragrance they are unequaled. 
What shall we do to get good flowers and keep them?— 
Dia.nthus. 
We judge that “Diantuus" was so unfortunate 
as not to spend his boyhood in this happy land. 
Our climate is not so well adapted to the Picotee 
and Carnation as some parts of Europe. Still, with 
a little attention, we may have plenty of very good 
flowers. We have had a fine show of seedlings this 
season, and one or two of our flowers would Dot be 
considered very bad in a London Horticultural 
Exhibition. Plants may be obtained of most of our 
florists, though it is not always that good flowers can 
be had. The better way is to grow them from seed, 
and we recommend this, partly because we wish to 
encourage the growth of this flower, which is very 
simple and requires no more skill and labor than 
every amateur should be able to bestow. Get good 
imported Beed; and this yon cannot buy by the 
quart for a song. The best is purchased in Europe 
by the hundred or thousand, and at a high price. 
By purchasing fifty conts worth of seed, you will 
probably get twenty good plants. One half of these, 
though perhaps only three or four, will prove single 
and worthless. These should be pulled up as soon 
as they show flower. The greater part of the re¬ 
maining plants will gire very pretty showy flowers, 
that will be a great ornament to the garden; be 
admired by all who see them, aud will be unequal¬ 
ed by anything in their season for cut (lowers?, ou 
accouHt of their rich and varied colors and fra¬ 
grance. Two or three may be superior for size and 
color, and possess most of the points of a good 
flower. These should be marked, and if worthy, 
named and propagated by layering. This operation 
is very simple. In addition to the flowering stems 
there will be many small branches at the base of the 
plant* Yvbich will not flower the present season. 
These are caused, by layering, to root and form new 
plants. The usual time for this operation is in 
July, though it may be done later, but the plants 
will not be as strong as if the operation were per¬ 
formed earlier. Procure a quantity ot small booked 
pegs; then take a trowel and remove the earth to the 
depth of an inch or so directly under the shoot to be 
layered. Take the shoot in one hand, and with the 
finger and thumb of the other hand remove the 
leaves from the body of the shoot, and shorten those 
P L It E LEICESTER. SHEET FOR SALE.— 
Sheading Rauis and Ram Lambs for sale; also Breeding 
Ewes and Ewe Lambs; all Premium Sheep; by 
WM. JEFFREY, Whithy. C. W.. 
6fl6-2t by the Grand Trunk Station. 
T A (SELL FEMALE SEMINAR Y.— Gits tnstitu- 
|lion begins its Fall Term on TUnr-fluy. September 111li* 
It bus breu in operation eleven year* under Uip sjimy Principal, 
its Teachers are all of experience in their respective depart¬ 
ments. Apply for Catalogues and iliftirniaPnn to 
AuhomiJale, Mass.. Aug., 1802 G. W. BRIGGS, Principal. 
PKK8rcKTi.YCi Grapes.— T should be glad to be informed Of 
the mode of preserving Catawba or Isabella grape* fresh in 
the cluster to serve for dessert in the winter, or as late ns it is 
practicable to keep Uiem.—Jnti, Draper, Nebraska City. 
Let tlie grapes got fully ripe before gathering. Spread tho 
bunches out iu a cool place, for a week or two, until the stem* 
ripen or get pretty hard, when the bunches should be 
examined, and all bruised and green berries removed. Then 
pack away in baskets or shallow boxes, two or three layers 
deep, with paper or cotton between each layer, and put away 
in » cool place, but where they will not freeze. 
QTUAWBEKRY PLANTS CHEAP.- A ustin’s 
Shaker Seedling, 25 rents per dozen; $1 per hundred.— 
Triomphe de Gand. 15 cents per cozen; 76 cents her hundred. 
J L. CADY, Waterville, Oneida Co , N. Y. 
ILI.1KEVS STENCIL PAMPHLET —Shows 
how any active person can make money rapidly. Sent 
Address D. L. M1LL1KEN, 
Editor "Monitor," Brandon, Vt. 
LOY YIENT ! — Agents wanted in every county, to 
the best i Pw'i-lhroadcd) Sewing Machine evei offered 
,1.1 Co- Liberal salary nr commiMinn allowed, with ex- 
Cireular senr. by addressing, with stamp, 
18 A AG HALE, JR, & CO , Newbury port. Mass. 
Peak Blight.— When dwarf pear trees are struck with the 
blight, (think it is called " tire blight.”) what can be done to 
arrest it? They are now bearing, hut the leaves arc drying 
up. A blade spot is seen oil the leaf. Carl the blight be 
stopped? Iluw'-H. W. Carpkytkk, Valparaiso , /mi. 
Spots on the leaves are often caused by mildew, and mis¬ 
taken for blight. We know of no remedy for the blight but 
cutting away the diseased parts as fast as they are affected. 
All the diseased wood must be cut away promptly, even if, iu 
doing so, half the tree is destroyeiL 
K(\l \ COLORED PLATES OF Fitl ITS AND 
■ )t I \) FLOW KG' — Evergreens, Shrubbery, Ac., 'a ken from 
nature. Designed for Nurserymen,Tree Agent* and Amateurs. 
l f~ Book* of Colored F ruits, tee . made to order liT Cata¬ 
logue* scut vrati* Apply to 
flSS-St P M DEWEY’, Agent, Finches ter, N. Y. 
As soon as the plant has 
borne a crop, cut one of these main branches down 
to, the ground, and a new one will start from below 
the surface. Next year cut another, or two, if 
deemed necessary; and in this way all of the plant 
above the ground i3 renewed every three or four 
years. This would be a very valuable plan, were 
it Dot for the fact that young plants are so easily 
obtained, and come into bearing ro early. 
jiVe would recommend the training of the currant 
on walls or fences. The fiuest fruit we have ever 
seen was raised in this way. Thus cultivated, they 
occupy no room in the garden, give no shade, to 
injure any other plant, but make beautiful the ugly 
fences and walla that disfigure even the best kept 
American gardens. Those who have traveled in 
Europe know that there, even in cottage gardens of 
little or no pretensions, not a foot of unsightly Yvall 
or fence is to be seen. Ail are covered with cur¬ 
rants, vines, or fruit trees, presenting a barrier of 
foliage, fruit, and flowers, delightful to behold. 
J ''ALLEY SEMINARY, Fulton, Usnnfn Co.,N. 
Y., offers Board, Washing, Fuel. ami Room furnished, ex¬ 
cept shoetn and pillow case*, for SCROHi a term ofH weeks, which 
open* August Util, 1862 Tuition [rum SA to $6, l'iano Music 
ami llrmimnntal Branches luuirht Send Tor t'ircuJar. 
KW-.lt JOHN P. GRIFFIN. Principal. 
Gravrl WALKS.—Will some person please tell me through 
the columns of the Rural how to burden gravel walks made 
out of common creek gravid, os I cannot get uny bank gravel 
about here' 1 —J. F. 14., Carmel , Aid. 
In our last issue will he found the information desired. A 
little lime with the gravel will make it solid. We have seen 
an excellent walk make by sprinkling water-limo on the 
surface, then watering and rolling. 
A KMY AND NAVY CLAIMS! 
*- Pensions, Bounty, Arrears of Pay ami Prize Money, 
Due Officers, Soldier*, Seamen, and Murines, their Widows, 
Orphan children anil heirs at law. promptly collected on rea¬ 
sonable tonus, and without charge until the claims are real¬ 
ized, by SAMUEL V. NILES, (late of the General Land Office,) 
Military. Naval and General Agency, (estab.ished in 1867,) 
Washington City, D. C. 
July, 1862. _655-13t 
THE CUERANT AND GOOSEBERRY, 
The Currant is an exceedingly valuable fruit, 
growing with little care, and preserved with ease 
for culinary purposes, while a really ripe arid well 
grown currant is not to be despised for the dessert. 
IJntll the advent of the currant worm, it was subject 
to no enemies of consequence, and this scourge we 
think is destined to pass away. The absence of rod 
and white currants, for a year or two past, has 
taught the people a lesson they have been very slow 
to learn—that the black currants are among the 
richest and most valuable of our fruits for cooking, 
jellies, wine-making, and in fact all domestic uses. 
The English varieties of gooseberries do not suc¬ 
ceed here, as a general thing, being subject to mil¬ 
dew, though by close pinning and mulching the 
surface of the ground around the plants, some ob¬ 
tain a tolerable crop. The Whitesmith we have 
found to be one ol the hardiest of English sorts. 
But, we started only to introduce the following in¬ 
quiry, which tve are anticipating: 
Bus. Rural New Yorker: —Will you, or some of yonr 
subscribers, please inform me through your paper, the best 
manner of culture of currants auii gooseberries—wlieu prun¬ 
ing is to be ilone, amt how; ami when old wood Is to be cut 
out; and how suckers are to be treated? Also, what kinds 
are best to cultivate for family use?— Jolly G. Ferguson, 
Henry , III., 1B62. 
The most reliable gooseberries are those of Amer¬ 
ican origin, being free from mildew. Houghton's 
Seedling , Downing's Seedling , and Mountain Seed¬ 
ling are the principal varieties. The first two are 
well known, and the latter somewhat new. 
We have a good variety of good currants, —all 
of European origin, we believe, —red, white, and 
black. The following are most desirable: 
Red.— Red Dutch is an old and well known sort, 
with fair-sized bunches and berries. It is a good 
bearer and a free grower, and a much better currant 
than most people suppose, as any one can ascertain 
by giving it good culture. The Cherry fo. perhaps, 
the largest red currant, having berries of extraor¬ 
dinary dimensions. The bunches are short and the 
fruit somewhat acid. La Verseillaise has berries 
about as large as the Cherry , but much longer 
buuches. It is a French variety not much dissem- 
gEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
NEW YORK STATE SABBATH SCHOOL 
Teachers’ Association 
CAKE RECIPES. COOKING POTATOES, &c, 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker:— Befog a constant 
reader of your paper, I am willing to do what I can 
toward answering inquiries, and will also send a 
few recipes tvhich I know to be good: 
Leotard Cake.— Take half a pound of sifted 
white sugar, beat with it half a pound of butter, until 
it is like cream, add to this the whites of eight eggs 
well beaten, naif a pound of flour, a little essence of 
lemon, and beat briskly for ten or fifteen miuutea. 
The same quantity of very brown sugar; butter and 
flour, with the yolks of eight eggs; half pound of 
currants; four ounces raisins stoned and chopped; 
nearly a teaspoon fill of cinnamon and cloves, ground 
together. Give the mixture a good beating. Cover 
the bottom of the tin with the white, then drop upon 
it the dark batter in lumps, cover with the white, 
and again drop the dark until the tin is two-thirds 
full. Bake the. same as common pound cake. 
Fried Potatoes. —Cut your cold potatoes in 
equal slices, and have ready in your spider two or 
three spoonfuls of salt pork or ham gravy, hot. Lay 
your slices in, about two or three thicknesses, 
sprinkle over them the proper quantity of salt, and 
a little pepper; fry them a light brown. Be careful 
in turning, not to break the slices. Add butter after 
putting them on the dish. 
Broiled Potatoes.— Lay slices the eighth of an 
inch thick upon the gridiron, cook them a nice 
brown, and season on the dish with pepper, salt, and 
SYveet butter. These, as tvell as fried potatoes, 
should be served very hot. - 
I don’t know whether this is the style “ they are 
prepared in saloons, restaurants, Ac.,” but I do 
know that they are excellent prepared after either 
of the above recipes. 
To Clean Kid Gloves.— Put them on and wash 
them with a soft linen rag dipped in sweet skimmed 
The Sabbath School Teachers of the State of New York are 
cordially invited to convene in the Congregational Church, 
(Rev. Dr Daggett's I at Canandaigua, ou Tuesday, August 26th, 
1362, at i iVcluck P. M., adieu lue 0(*iventiiiii will organize 
Devotional exorcise* and Aiidrevses, by experienced Sabbath 
School men front tlii- and other States and Dixcuwdon><d Prac¬ 
tical Sunday Schoul topics, will constitute the exercises of the 
meeting. 
Tho I'onvention will probably continue through Wednesday 
and Ibursdny, Ally. 27th andfSHr 
De eiratea who oh-s over the New York and Krtc Railway and 
its brunches, via Elmira, will pay foil fare to f'.inanduigua, and 
receive « free paseto return, by culling on the State Secretary. 
It. is r*f very great importance Unit tho Officers ot each Sab¬ 
bath School In tho Hitt.e be explicit sod pumipl iu pinking their 
Report to tlie Town Sec>etar»\ If there i- no Tow u .'ecictary, 
forward to County »eri tur y , complete, by A up J. 1*62. 
County (secretaries will confer a emit boor by forwarding 
their Reports to the Secretary o* Ult State Sunday School 
Teacher* 1 Association, at Rochester. N V .J'V \ug 16.1862. 
(‘actors, (Jfljeers ami Teachers of tint F.vauueltcal Sabbath 
School* ■ ftpe -Unto are eordinllv invited to attend, naff partici¬ 
pate in the deliberation* of till* body 
Publishers of a I Paper*, relixiousattd secnlar. who feel an in¬ 
terest in the welfare of the vuti'ur. will confer h favor by g>ving 
tiiis a place in their columns, or by making an appropriate re- 
«ame 
Will Pastors and SoiterintendeOts cause a suitable notice of 
this Convention to be resit, to their respective Churches two 
Sundays in .success! on. previous to the Convention l 
Central Committee. 
A I, Van Buren, Brooklyn, I G C Churchill. Utica, 
Dr Beni Lord, New York, ; J Mason Rice. Klbridge, 
a D Robinson. Albany, j A G MOder Rochester, 
C l' Hart, Troy. I Rev P G Cook, Buffalo. 
Executive Committee. 
Ylhert Woodruff, Brooklyn, A A Smith, Brooklyn, 
L g Loiier, " J C Baxter, New York, 
Louis Chapin, Rochester, A D Mathews, Brooklyn. 
t’o mm i I tee on Visitation. 
R G Pardee. New York, J D Foote. Syracuse, 
ft,, e j Mandeville, Rochester Rev P G Cook. Buffalo, 
Albert Woodruff, Brooklyn, Ralph Wells, New York. 
Secretary Estate Association. 
E T Huntington...Rochester. 
Lucul Committee at Ciinanduig'im. 
C M Marsh. Baptist Dr M P Greensward Wesleyan. 
Dr GS Wood, do. Dr H Jewett, Congregational. 
Rev J K Tuttle, Methodist X T Clarke. do. 
E M Morse. L B Tousley, Presbyterian. 
L Wi'cnx, Methodist. S Hough, K Bloomfield, Pres¬ 
byterian. 
gmlirultuval U$ 
Remedy for the Apple Tree Borer. — On visiting the 
farm of Mr. Kenriek, of Dover, Mass., a few days since, our 
attention was uttracted to one of the finest apple orchards 
that we have ever seen of its age — ten years from the nur¬ 
sery. Noticing the freedom of the trees from the borer, we 
asked Mr. K. what mode he adopted to keep off that insect. 
He slated that he kept the ground under cultivation, generally 
planting it to potatoes, and at the last hoeing — the last of 
June or the first of July — he had a mound of earth raised 
around each tree to the height of seven or eight inches. 
When the beetle comes to the tree to deposit its eggs, it 
places them on the hark just at the surface of the earth, not 
being able to get at the tree uearer the roots. In the fall the 
earth, which had been drawn round the tree, is hauled away, 
leaving the part attacked by the borer in plain sight, and as 
the larvse have made but a slight entrance, they are easily 
destroyed .—Boston Cultivator. 
Pur* Balls as Food. — Tlie following extract is from ‘he 
Rev. 8. W. King's “ Alpine Tour,” and may bo acceptable to 
some of your readers as a culinary wrinkle:—“ Few persons 
are aware what a good, delicately flavored as well as whole¬ 
some dish, they neglect in the common puff' ball. The large 
ones, taken in the fresh growing state and cut into slices and 
fried, us Bacihum recommends (‘ Esculent Funguses of Eng¬ 
land,') in egg and bread crumbs, have tlie flavor of a rich, 
light omelette. It is most digestible food, and the timid need 
have no apprehension whatever as to its being the right kind 
or uot, as all the fungi of the Lycoperdon class, which are of 
a spherical form aud have no stalk, are perfectly innocuous.” 
—London Gardeners' Chronicle. 
LAYER. 
at the top an inch or so. With a thin, sharp knife, 
cut through the strongest joint on the body of the 
shoot, cutting upward until within a short distance 
of the next joint, and if the joints are close it may 
I Stepheusi'u 
The citizens of Canandaigua are hospitably arranging ‘o pro¬ 
vide entertainment for members of the Convent'on; and those 
expecting to be present are desired to send their names, before 
August 20lh, to either of the I,oral Committee. 
B. T HUNTINGTON. Secy State Association. 
Rochester, hi. Y , July 16, 1862. 
HoRrrcPLrcRAL Fair. — The Fifth Annual Exhibition of 
the Battle Creek (Michigan) Horticultural Society will be held 
in the Methodist Church, September 17, 1862. All articles 
intended for exhibition must be brought in before ten o'clock 
in the forenoon on the day of exhibition. 
