ftameslic SBcoitotitn 
Everything must be hot from the beginning 
to the end—hot sirup, hot cans, hot fruit, hot 
sealing wax, aDd harder than all, hot and blowzy 
hands and faces just when the thermometer is at 
blood heat In the shade ! 
All small fruits are subjected to the same pro¬ 
cess, except that the rule for them is simply to 
allow them to come to a boil, and not remain 
longer in the sirup. Strawberries, to retain their 
color and Uavor, require more sugar, and to bo 
put into glass, stone, earthen, or anything but 
tin. The same is true of blackberries. Toma¬ 
toes 1 scald, peel, and then bring to a boil again, 
with a little salt added, when I put them in new 
tin, aud seal. I have never been fortunate with 
glass or earthen. If stone jars arc used be sure 
e extract from Warder’s American Pomology the following engraving and description 
of a new apple originating in North Carolina. It is place 
second and irregular in form. The reader will notice that 
months later at the North than at the South. 
Harris. — This variety 
was received from North 
Carolina, and fruited for — 
the first time in the North 
during 1866. In the South 
it is considered a summer / 
and fall variety, being- in / 
season from August, and / 
continuing for a long time. 
For specimens I am indebt- ! .. 
ed to Doctor E. Taylor, of 1 s / 
Cleveland, Ohio. \ f 
Fruit, medium to large, V \ ^ 
oblate, angular; surface, \ 
smooth, yellow, faintly \ . 
blushed; dots, scattered, \ 
minute, with rosy spots; \ 
basin, deep, abrupt, folded; x , * 
eye, medium, rather open; "— 
cavity, deep, wavy, clear 
yellow; stem, medium to ha 
long; core, small, open, meeting the eye; axis, very short; seeds, 
yellow, breaking, fine-grained, juicy; flavor, acid to sub-acid, spicy, 
kitchen. Season, October. Quality, good to very good. 
CUCUMBER BEETLE, (Galleruca Americana.) 
The striped, lemon-colored cucumber bug, or 
more properly beetle, is familiar to gardeners, 
and is one of the most troublesome and destruct¬ 
ive insects they have to contend with. Com¬ 
paratively few, perhaps, are aware of the great 
amount of mischief caused by this beetle in 
its larva state, or know accurately the various 
changes it undergoes. We believe its history 
was first correctly traced by Dr. Asa Fitch, 
and bis observations were published in the 
Transactions of the N. Y. State Ag’l 8oeiety 
for 1864. Having seen recently extensive dep¬ 
redations, not only by the hectic but also by its 
larva, we have drawn upon the article by Dr. 
Fitch for illustrations and matter, which will 
b e useful to the cultivator of squash, melon and 
encumber vines. 
Eds. Rural: —There is such a call for recipes 
I will send those I use and know to be good. 
Every one don’t live on a farm, where cream 
and buttermilk “grow,” go the 
as do not possess these luxuries: 
Graham Bread, 
pan — 1;J ; , qts. of Graham flour 
For a loaf in a two quart 
% teacup of 
molasses; salt, and yeast to raise it; mix with 
Bweet milk quite soft; do not knead at all; 
put it in the pan ; wet a spoon with water and 
smooth it over. Let it rise, hut not quite as 
much as if it were to be baked; put in a steamer 
and place over boiling water and steam 9 % hours, 
then bake half an hour. Those who have once 
eaten steamed bread will never hake it. 
Old-fashioned New England Bannock.— 
Sift 2 teaenps of rye meal with the same of 
corn meal; 3 tablespoons of molasses; salt; 1 
teacup of cold water; the remainder of the wet¬ 
ting boiling water; mix quite stiff and spread in 
thin sheets upon buttered tins; mark in squares 
and bake. This is a good breakfast cake for 
those who like rye bread. 
Pancakes. — cups of milk ; 1>£ do. of 
sugar; 8 eggB; l nutmeg; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 
do. of soda ; flour enough to make very stiff. 
Drop from a spoon into hot. lurd and fry. 
Won’t soak fat. Very nice for tea, eaten hot. 
Pop Overs.— 2 cups of mill;; 3 eggs beaten 
light; 2% cups of flour; piece of butter size of 
H PLANTS FORTY TO 
cM&f: SlnT** P,ant8 f ° r “ alC ' 
P. 9—A gents $ a Ycg M% ™ * DKO " 
WANTED 
—- All lit I'ad) Town 
and County in the United Status, to Introduce 
ORCHARD CULTURE 
HORTICULTURAL GLEANINGS, 
Insects on Rose Rushes .—Whale oil soap and 
rain water, in the proportions ol' one to seven, 
sprinkled on rose and other bushes infested with 
the aphis, rose-bugs, slugs, &c., will prove effect¬ 
ive in dispersing these pests. The mixture should 
be made with water at or near the boiling point. 
California Oranges.— The California Fanner 
says that oranges, much superior in flavor to 
those grown upon the islands, are being plenti¬ 
fully produced in many sections of that State. 
The business promises io be a highly remuner¬ 
ative one. 
The Silver Maple for Shade. — The Practical 
Farmer says that the silver or soft maple can 
be made to assume a dose and compact form 
by being cut back two or three times while the 
top is being formed. It hears pruning well, 
grows rapidly, and is generally free from worms 
and parasitic nuisances. 
The Currant Worm—Remedy.—A writer in 
the Cultivator tells how he disposed nf currant 
worms on his bushes—currant and gooseborry. 
He says“ Having a mixture already prepared 
for top-dressing corn, of one-third each of plas¬ 
ter, wood ashes and slaked lime, I covered my 
hushes with it shaking over and under them 
from my hand, aud in one day’s time every 
wormj had fallen off upon the ground, dead or 
dying.” I 
Transplanting Evergreens.— Cultivator has 
a timely suggestion with reference to transplant¬ 
ing evergreens when young. In the early stages 
o; their growth the limbs are low down, render¬ 
ing it diflieult to dig them up and plant them 
out again. To obviate this, It is proposed to 
raise the branches upward and fasten them to 
the trunk by means of a strap and buckle. This 
permits ready access to the roots—greatly facili¬ 
tating the labor of raising the trees aud replant¬ 
ing them. 
Small Fruits .—It is a general subject of re¬ 
mark, in the public journals, Horticultural or 
otherwise, that the crop of small fruit in New 
York is quite limited, 
ling with each bottle. L. P. WORKALL 
Men,Tal Agent, No. 91 H'iil-,,i, York’ city 
' Fig. 2. 
Fig. 1. 
The larva of the beetle Is represented in the 
above cut (Fig. 1,) as greatly magnified—the 
small figure on the left side showing its natural 
size. It is a soft, slender, cylindrical worm, 
slightly tapered towards its forward end. Its 
color is dull white, with head and last segment 
on its body black. When it is done feeding the 
worm forsakes the root, and forms a little cavity 
—» under gTonnd by turning 
VT\ V s. itself round and round In 
/ the same place and crowd- 
ing the dirt outward until 
v va / it becomes compacted on 
1 . * every side of It, forming a 
B little lump of such firra- 
§ ness that it will not crum- 
>*!& ble or break asunder from 
any motion given to the 
earth around it by the hoe 
(§9 or plow. Inside of this 
a JA cell the worm throws off 
W its larva skin and becomes 
a pupa. In the above cut 
s' j ‘ (Fig. 2,) the pupa is rep- 
S resented natural size and 
J f also magnified. Dr. F. re- 
marks that he has no cri- 
/ terion to judge the time 
/1J required for the larva to 
IL get its growth, but that 
I/ \ they remain in their pupa 
' form about a fortnight; 
* 10< It then appears a perfect 
beetle, as seen feeding ou the vines. 
Fig. 3 represents a root of cucumber or melon, 
of the natural size and strncture, infested with 
the worm or larva of the beetle. Fig. 4 repre¬ 
sents the beetle itself. 
The larva or worm works, as - 
the engraving shows, just below 
the surface of the earth, in the M Ttv r 
thick fleshy root which extends I |K\ I 
an inch or two downward before / sXJ S. 
branching Into the numerous lat¬ 
eral rootlets, boring into and eat- Fig. 
ing the substance until the juices of the plant 
are sapped and it suddenly withers and dies. 
The worm also frequently consumes the sprouts 
of the seed, underground, so that the plants 
never appear, and the seedsman is usually blamed 
for haring sold poor seed, when the real cause is 
the worm. But the most vexatious injury is 
done when the plants have attained considerable 
growth, when they have extended themselves 
several feet along the earth and have blossomed 
and set fruit. Suddenly the vines wither and 
die. On pulling them the worms are readily 
seen in the root, which appears withered and 
GREAT AMERICAN 
TEA COMPANY 
HAVE JUST BBCKIVED 
TWO FULL CARGOES 
OF THE 
FINEST NEW CROP TEAS. 
■3*2,OOO IIAI.F CHESTS by ship Golokn State, 
13,000 HACK CHESTS by ship Gkokoh Shotton 
In addition to these largo cargoes of Black and 
Japan Tens, tho Company arc constantly receiving 
large Invoices of the llnest qnnllty of Green Teas 
from the Mnynnn districts of China, which arc unri¬ 
valled for 11 noucss and delicacy of flavor, which they 
are Belling at the following prices: 
OOLONG fBlack,) 50c..«()., 70c., 80c., 96c., best (1 U a. 
MIXED (Green and Black,) 50c.. 60c.,70c„ 80c., «0c., best 
(1 * ft. 
KNOLISII BREAKFAST 50c., 60c., 70c., 80C., 90c,(1, (1,10, 
best (13 V ft. 
IMPERIAL (Green,) 50c., 60C., 70c., 80c., 90c., (1, $1,10, 
best (1,95 ft ft. 
YOUNG HYSON (Green,) 50c., GOc., 70c., 80c., 90c., (1, 
( 1 , 10 , best (1,25 V ft. 
HNCOLOHED JAPAN, 90c., ( 1 , (1,10, best (1,25 $ ft. 
GUNPOWDER (1,25, best (1,50 V ft. 
Molasses Cake.—I teaspoon of cinnamon; 1 
do. of cloves; I cup of molasses; 1 do. of hot 
water; 1 tablespoon of saleratus; 2 do. of but¬ 
ter. Mix not very hard. Bake slowly. 
Cream Ptr.— l egg, beaten with 1 tablespoon 
of flour, 1)4 cups of rnllk; sweeten to taste; a 
pinch of salt. But this into a tin pail; set into 
a kettle of boiling water and stir till well cook¬ 
ed ; when cool flavor with lemon. Line your 
pic plates with a very nice cruet; sprinkle flour 
upon it and lay on another crust; bake, and 
then split and All with the cream. This is for 
one pic. 
Lemon Custard.—1 cup of sugar; yolks of 3 
eggs; % cups of sweet milk ; 1 tablespoon of 
Dour; grated rind, the juice aud pulp of t lemon; 
a little salt. Bake with one crust. For the frost¬ 
ing, whites of 3 eggs beaten to a stiff froth, and 5 
tablespoons white sugar. Put o,n the pie when 
hot, and return to the oven live minutes,—E. F. 
Twichkll, So. Dedham , Muss. 
Barley Pudding — Excellent. —Soak pear 
barley 24 hours or more; then boll it for two 
hours; during the last half hour or more, the 
raisins, having been added, should be cooking. 
Then treat it with eggs, milk, sugar and spice; 
as is done for rice pudding. This recipe has 
never before been published. The eggs may be 
omitted, if abundance of rich milk be added. 
Bake till moderately brown, and BCrvo with 
sauce.—H. G. 
Strawberry Pie.—T ake your strawberries, 
after being bulled, place them in a deep dish— 
2 quarts of berries will make 3 pics—add to the 
berreis teacups of maple-flavored sugar; with 
a desert spoon mash the berries and sugar to¬ 
gether ; make your crust as for other pies; All 
your pie-plates with the berrioe us mixed; when 
full cover with braided crust, or m strips as for 
tarts. Bake iu a quiek oven, and you will have 
a delicious pie—far surpassing strawberry short¬ 
cake.— E. B. L., Rochester, W. Y. 
Consumers can save from 30c. to (l per pound by pur¬ 
chasing their Teas of the 
THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA COMPANY, 
Nos. 31 and 33 Vesey St., 
Post-omcu Box, 56*$ New York City.” 
Occasionally a cherry 
tree is seen well loaded down, but, as a general 
rule, the amount of fruit is small and of an in¬ 
ferior quality. The promise of the plum crop 
is even less eheeriug. The currant—the red 
variety is pretty generally a failure compared 
with the affluence of former years. Strawberries 
have proved an exception—the yield haring been 
in excess of that of any year for a long time past. 
Raspberries and Blackberries — Transplantin'}. 
—The Horticulturist says:—For the past two 
years wc have annually planted out raspberry 
aud blackberry plants in this month, July. We 
prepare our ground and then go to the rows 
from which to remove the plants, having a tub 
or pail with a little muddy water in it, dig the 
plants—half grown ones of this year—pinch off 
the ends about two inches, set the roots into 
the pail of muddy water, aud from that to their 
permanent position. They rarely die, and gen¬ 
erally produce a fair crop the next season. 
Thinning Fruit .—The Germantown Telegraph 
closes an article on the subject of thinning out 
fruit as followsIt goes hard with some peo¬ 
ple to diminish the quantity of fruit upon their 
trees. Sometimes they plead want of time; but 
this is not admissible, for if they have not time 
to attend to the proper cultivation of fruit they 
shou'd abandon it altogether. The real cause is 
their greediness. You can’t make them believe 
that they are the gainers by destroying a portion 
of the crop, saying that Nature is the best judge 
as to the quantity of fruit. Such persons have 
no practical knowledge of fruit-raising, and the 
soouer they give It up the better it will be for 
them, their pockets and reputation.” 
Bugs on Vegetation.— J. F. C.,-sends us 
a viol with half a score of beetles or bugs which 
are operating extensively on his corn. Also a 
leaf of com on which depredations have been 
committed. It iB perforated as though riddled 
with small shot. The beetles belong, according 
to Dr. Fitch, to the Family MeloUmthidin and 
the Order Coleoptera— commonly known as the 
rose-bug. They are noticed as appearing occa¬ 
sionally in eouutless numbers on rose bushes, 
beans, peas and vines, and finally they assail the 
growing corn with great voracity. When the 
vegetal on attacked occupies but a small space, 
patience and nimble hands may soon dispose 
of them, but when a large field is embraced In 
the scope of their operations to attempt their 
expulsion or destruction seems a hopeless task. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTING, 
Papering White-washed Walls.—J. E. R. 
P., Hornellsville.—You can make the paper stick 
on white-washed walls by dissolving glue in 
good strong vinegar and washing them with the 
solution. Heat till the glue is dissolved and 
then apply with a brush. 
Green Corn —Curing.— A subscriber wants 
to know how to can green com so that it will 
keep good. Who will respond ? 
The best season for planting, we think, is in 
the spring, the next beet, the Farm and Fireside 
says, is the latter part of summer, iu a favorable 
spell of weather. Some cultivators recommend 
to plant in the very driest time; this inuy be prac¬ 
ticable, as they afflrm it is; but the uninitiated 
are not willing to believe it. By planting in 
summer, the plants will bear u fair crop the en¬ 
suing season. Plants put in in the spring, may 
bear some fruit the same season; but not as a 
general rule. Select strong runners, never old 
plants. The runners should he prepared the 
summer previous by being layered, or stopped, 
as it is termed, by breaking ofl' the extremity of 
the runner, after the first Joint, and lay a stone 
on it, or drawing the soil up to the young plant. 
Strawberries arc now generally planted in rows, 
varying from two to three feet wide, according 
to the ideas of the cultivator. If wide rows arc 
adopted, the plantation may be kept longer in 
good bearing condition, by keeping the soil 
clean and well worked, removing the superfluous 
runnens, aud keeping the plants more in hills. 
Some extensive cultivators do not allow a plan¬ 
tation to remain more than three years until re¬ 
newed; this is a wise method, as the soil is 
thereby renewed and a new rotation of crops 
carried out. Fabulous accounts daily meet the 
eye of the product per acre of a strawberry 
plantation; none orf these are worth repeating, 
as the product will depend mainly on the treat¬ 
ment. 
dead. 
It will be seen that the cucumber beetle is a 
formidable enemy to the garden in nil its forms 
—full as much, perhaps, in its larva state as in 
that oi the beetle. The beetles come forth early 
‘ ri May, in this latitude, aud subsist on other 
food until their favorite vines make their appear¬ 
ance. Then they attack these, depositing their 
eggs around them, which soon bring forth the 
larva to prey on the roots while thebcetle eats 
the leaves. Our remedies against their depreda¬ 
tions are few,—the best, probably, being a box 
having a cover of mosquito netting, to be set 
0vcr the biU of vines. This will keep off the 
beetles, and doubtless the larva also, as the eggs 
cannot he deposited near the vines. 
CANNING FRUIT, 
First— Can the fruit the same day it is gath¬ 
ered. More than half the secret of having fine 
preserved fruit lies in this simple direction. 
Second —Never can fruit without adding as 
much sugar to It as you would to prepare It. for 
the table. This is imperative, else your fruit 
will inevitably be leathery; cook it in, I should 
say, at the rate of oue-qnarter of a pound to 
every pound of fruit, at least; but taste and 
try, as I did, and when It suits your palate cease 
from all saccharine matter. 
And now for the modus openmdi :—Pare and 
extract the pit; cut Into halves and plunge into 
cold water until ready to cook, else your peaches 
will be black ; this, of course, does not apply to 
other kinds oi truit. Flace your cans in any 
vessel where they can stand at least half way up 
in boiling hot water, which keep so until sealed. 
I usually take a large dripping-pan and put it on 
the top of the stove at one side, while my pre¬ 
serving kettle is on the other. Make your syrup 
and when it comes to a boil, put in your peaches 
and let them cook (11 clmgs) until you can pierce 
with a piece of broom corn ; if freestones, when 
the sirup boils up over them the first time, skim 
out and put into the cans. When the latter are 
full of the poaches, fill up with boiling hot sirup, 
wipe off the tops with a rag wet with cold water, 
being careful that no juice remains on them, then 
put on the covers, remove from the water to the 
stove hearth, and seal. 
N.B.—All villages ami towns where a large number 
reside, by clubbtng together, can reduce the cost of their 
Teas and Coffees about one-third by sending directly 
to the Great Ammucan Tea Company. 
BEWARE of all concerns that advertise themselves 
as branches of our Establishment, or copy onr name 
either wholly or In part, as they are bogus or imitations. 
We have no branches, and do not, In any case, authorize 
the use of our name. 
tST Post-olHcc orders and drafts make payable to the 
order of Great American Tea Company. Direct letters 
and orders to 
GRE A^gE RICAN TEA COMPANY, 
Vesey Street. 
Box, 5613 New York city. 
THINNING GRAPE VINES. 
A r ecext article in the Rural described the 
mode of thinning the grapes in the clusters, all 
01 rl ‘ieh is well to be done by amateurs and per- 
' 0Jte of le isure, but lor the practical cultivator 
j - grapes the careful and judicious summer trim- 
'iJiug of vines is of much more importance. 
itij our and climate there is a constant 
: !4enc y to an overgrowth of wood. It is our 
I 'j dee to remove all superfluous and unbear- 
C - nevv w0 °d before the grapes arc in blossom, 
VL." L IK ' ctXar - v do it again, but not until after 
, 0 ^- ri . r '-' y e H set. This method, with 
vw. • bortening m of the longer shoots, with a 
ai d a!, 6 , the £ ra P es a11 tbe benefits of sun 
rmaniitv “ateriaUy to both quality and 
1 nut y, and aids earlier maturity 
Syracuse, N. Y. 8. N. Holmes. 
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SPENCER’S PATENT 
Self-Sealing Fruit Jars. 
The Most Reliable.—J* - - - 
Wine Making and Temperance.—A t a late 
meeting of the Lake Shore Grape Growers As¬ 
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facts and statistics upon the physical and moral 
influences af wine making in the United States. 
This committee is to report at the next annual 
meeting of the society. If the report is to the 
effect that grape growing and wine making are 
adverse to temperance and good morals, then 
the business ought to be abandoned. 
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Keep. Consult your Interests uiul buy no 
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