If the varieties named do not suit, try 
Boston Pine, Brooklyn Scarlet, and Charles 
Downing, these being excellent in quality, 
although not as large as the sorts you men¬ 
tion. The sweetest strawberry that we have 
ever cultivated is the little “ Ladies’ Pine,' 1 
which originated in Canada a few years ago. 
The plants require extra culture, and the 
berries are not very large, but most delicious. 
GRAPES IN TEXAS, 
THE APPLE LEAP BUOOULATRIX. 
(Bucculatrix pomifoUeUa.— Clem.) 
Theue are an abundance of wild grapes 
growing in our woods; some of them are 
pretty good. They have been described in 
some of the Reports of the Agricultural 
Bureau at "Washington. And yet, but few 
persons have undertaken to raise them. 
Perhaps the day may come when as good 
and as much wine will be made litre as in 
California. Why not? Will some of your 
correspondents undertake to say what would 
be considered the best grape for this lati¬ 
tude?— Viator. 
Many of our correspondents have given 
their opinions us to the best grape for Tex¬ 
as, but hardly any two will agree. For 
wine, we think what i9 known as the South¬ 
ern group, such as Lincoln, Lenoir, Herbc- 
mont, Norton’s Virginia and Eumelan, will 
be far preferable to the larger and courser 
sorts belonging to the Fox grapes (Vitis 
labrusca). The Concord, Delaware, and 
similar varieties should be experimented 
with for the table, although we have little 
faith in their success at the South except in 
high, elevated positions. There are excep¬ 
tional localities and soils at the South as 
well as North, where certain varieties suc¬ 
ceed admirably, and it is only by experi¬ 
menting that these can be discovered. We 
have, as yet*no one bat grape for all locali¬ 
ties, blit many that are best for particular 
localities. 
BY CHAS. V. RILEY. 
An Apple Tree Enemy comparatively little 
known. 
We have here a little insect which seems 
destined to become quite troublesome to the 
Oriel a of Solicited! Raspberry. 
J. E. M., Philadelphia, writes Gardener’s 
Monthly:—“ Your correspondent, L., Cincin¬ 
nati, is informed that the Souchetti Raspber¬ 
ry was introduced in this country in 1850, by 
Mr. Boucher, (of firm of Aubrey & Soucbet), 
was named after his father, a famous rasp¬ 
berry grower for the Paris (France) Market, 
lie ulso introduced the Hornet,Pilate, Impe¬ 
rial and Jouet, and the four first named have 
probably never been excelled, unless Mr. 
Hcrstiue’s seedlings should prove to be su¬ 
perior. The Jouet was a yellow fruit, small¬ 
er than the * Souchetti,’ but not equal to it 
either in flavor or productiveness.” 
.’umtlist 
Fig. 12.—Colors, (a and b) white; c, pale gray 
and brown. 
apple culturist. I have been acquainted with 
it for some lime, but was not aware, till last 
fall, that it ever became sufficiently abundant 
to cause alarm, while no popular account 
has ever yet been given of it, ns neither 
Harris nor Fitch make mention of any 
such insect. 
Last fall I found it not uncommon in my 
own neighborhood and received it from Mr. 
H, C. Beardslee of Painesville, O., and 
from Mr. H. N. Lanowortoy of Rochester, 
N. Y. As the latt er gentlemen requested an 
account of t he insect in the Rural New- 
Yorker, and as his letter conveys a good 
idea of the injury which the Bucculatrix is 
DAILY RURAL LIFE. 
(‘>0111 ihe Diary of 11 Gentleman 11 ear N^w 
York (JiIv. 
May 9.—Pinxter Monday, and my colored 
help are unable to work. Very few persons 
who ha ve been brought up outside of Penn¬ 
sylvania and Jersey Dutch influence and 
customs ever heard of such a day as Pinxter. 
Yesterday was Pinxter Sunday (Whitsun¬ 
tide), a day which some folks keep as a holi¬ 
day, others as a jolly-day—my sable help 
prefer the latter—consequently they were 
too mellow and “headachy” on Monday to 
work. 1 do not blame them much for noi 
trying to work, as the weather is really too 
hot for labor of any kind. But it is truly 
wonderful how the poor and needy will seek 
and find excuses for neither earning or sav¬ 
ing money. ] pity men who arc too in¬ 
dolent to labor, as well as those who cannot 
save money nfier they have earned it, be¬ 
cause in many cases they wore horn so, and 
can’t hell) it. 
May 80 .—Magnolia Glauea , or as it is 
sometimes called, Swamp Magnolia, is in 
bloom. The early blooming species and 
varieties such ns Conspicua and Soulnn- 
giann, make a more magnificent show, ns the 
flowers appear before the leaves, and are 
considerably larger; bill for delicacy of per¬ 
fume or beauty of leaf, our Swamp Magno¬ 
lia is not excelled. The plants are not, 
readily transplanted when they are large, 
but small bushes, carefully dug anil then 
severely pruned may he removed with safe¬ 
ty. My plants came from the swamps two 
years ago, and now they are not only in 
bloom, hut growing rapidly. Rhododendron 
maximum and Kalmta /at [folio , taken up 
from the woods at the same lime, are nour¬ 
ishing, and the latter is in full bloom. A 
little care, and the free use of a pruning 
knife would enable many persons to succeed 
who, as a general thing, make a failure of 
every attempt to move these plants. 
May 31.—Last winter ami spring, when 
pruning currant bushes and ornamental 
P0M0L0GI0AL GOSSIP. 
Fi'ulrs for New Jersey. 
Will you inform me through the columns 
of the Rural New-Yorker the best kind 
of apple, cherry, mid pear trees to set. out in 
Mercer Co., New Jersey, a few miles above 
Trenton.—11. E. Fike. 
The “ West Jersey Fruit Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation,” which we suppose is pretty good 
authority to quote from, recommends the 
following: 
Apples. — For summer we recommend 
Sweet Bough, Hagloe, and Early Redstreak ; 
for full, Maiden's Blush, Porter, Orange Pip¬ 
pin, andFallowater; and for winter, Smith’s 
Cider, Baldwin anil Cooper’s Seedling. 
Pears .—The general opinion seems to be 
in favor of standards, of which for summer, 
the Early Catherine, Dearborn’s Seedling, 
and Beurre Gifford are considered the best; 
lor fall, the Bartlett, Sickel, St. Michael and 
Dutchess; and for winter, the Lawrence, 
Beurre d’Anjou and Beurre Olairgeaii. 
The Auanaa d’Ele, Bartlett, Dutchess, St. 
Michael, and Louise Bonne, are favorite 
dwarfs; but the general opinion is, that little 
is gained by planting on the quince. 
The Bartlett is the only variety that gives 
universal satisfaction. 
Cherries .—The Early Richmond, Carna¬ 
tion, Belle Magnifique and common Pie 
Cherry are the varieties most recommended. 
Fig. 1.—Cocoon—Attacus Cecropia. 
?/ „ ,,.U Whd.k visiting the grounds of 1. M, Babcock 
<& Sons in Brighton, near Rochester, N. Y., wo 
Shrubs entered a liold or eight hundred apple trees in 
lem in- the Very zenith of their bearing capacity, loaded 
them a down with the titiem kinds of winter fruit. But 
ir last to ,ny utter t ‘" r nrise my attention was directed 
’ to the branches of the entire trees which were 
: thou- thoroughly lined with these insects 
or minute 
worms iuolosed in their moth-like cocoon, and 
tightly attached tot hesmall brunches which yon 
will readily perceive; ulso, the leaves of the trees 
are Infested with a similar worm incased within 
the leaf, from one-fourth to one-half au inch in 
length—what some would call the leal-rollers. 
The effect of their ruinous work on the trees is 
to almost denude them of their leaves, and 
greatly to diminish the future prospects for 
fruit. Now, Mr. Editor, through the Ruiiai. 
New-Vobkeh we shall look for some solution of 
the nature and character of this most formidable 
enemy ihut has appeared upon our apple trees. 
I seud you a branch that has the insects on, and 
the leaf which I believe contains the parent, 
which is the cause of all the mischief. Will you 
have tills subject investigated by competent 
hands, and report through the Rural? 
H. N. Lan’g worth y. 
Accompanying the above-quoted letter 
were several twig9 covered with white 
cocoons, as shown at Fig. 12, a, and a tree 
that has been badly Infested with the worms 
SUMMER PRUNING GRAPES, 
Grape vines ever so carefully pruned in 
winter, will need more or less summer prun¬ 
ing. From many of the buds two or more 
sboots will issue, and these must be thinned 
out, or all removed except one. Sboots will 
also start from latent and adventitious buds 
upon various portions of the main stem and 
branches, and if none are wanted to fill up 
vacant spaces upon the trellis, they should 
be rubbed off as soon as they appear. All 
of this kind of work can lie done without 
the aid of pruning knife or shears, and so 
rapidly that, a man can go over a half acre 
or more per day, The inexperienced vine- 
yardist is always prone to leave more shoots 
than are either beneficial or necessary, par¬ 
ticularly if they show signs of fruiting. 
While small, the young shoots appear to 
have plenty of room for development, and 
the little cluster of flowers makes such an 
insignificant show that we can hardly im¬ 
agine how much space they will occupy 
when fully developed. No two shoots should 
be allowed to grow nearer than eight inches, 
and for coarse, vigorous growing varieties 
twelve is far better. 
If the vines have been severely pruned in 
autumn or winter, they will lie more likely 
to throw out more clusters of shoots from 
dormant buds than when pruned long, but 
in either case the breaking out of a large 
number of sboots is an imperative necessity 
for securing a full crop of fruit and a healthy 
growth of vine. We have also found that 
the checking of bearing canes by pinching 
their ends when two or three feet long, 
to be quite beneficial to the fruit. The leaves 
will become much larger and belter able to 
withstand mildew, and every grape grower 
knows the value of healthy leaves near the 
bunches of fruit, and in some localities it is 
almost impossible to secure them except by 
Eikm lor Profit, 
The Rural Carolinian believes figs may be 
grown for drying, so well as to compete 
profitably with the foreign fruit. 
The Christine (Telearn alt) Grape 
is praised by some correspondents of West¬ 
ern papers, for being quite ripe when the 
Hartford is yeL sour. 
Manila Grape. 
John H. Heyser writes from Hagerstown, 
Md., that with him Martha proves the best 
white grape in that region, 
AruoLUa Hybrid Grape. 
Mr. John II. Heyser writes to the Grape 
Culturist that Cornucopia and Canada ri¬ 
pened last season at Hagerstown, Md., to¬ 
gether with Adirondac, Rebecca and Ives. 
Apple for Texas. 
Very few apples are raised here. Can 
some one in the columns of your paper ad¬ 
vise what sort of apples might be experi¬ 
mented upon in Texas?— Viator. 
We liave no facts gathered from experi¬ 
ence with apples in Texas, but we would 
advise planting those that are known to 
succeed at the South. For instance, the fol¬ 
lowing, which are recommended by P. J. 
Berkmans, for Georgia, would be safe to 
commence with:—Blood Red Crab, Bun¬ 
combe, Carolina Watson, Early Harvest, 
Early Strawbeny, Fall Queen of Kentucky, 
Buckingham, Jewett’s Red, Sops of Wine, 
Shockley, Steven’s Winter and Yates. If 
the above should succeed and a greater va¬ 
riety be desirable, they could be added from 
lists made up by reliable orchardisls at ihe 
South. 
Querr about Strawberries. 
Which is the best bearing berry for table 
use? 1 have under cultivation Triotnphe 
do Gand, Wilson, Jucunda and Agricultur- | 
1st. The former bear well, but are not very 
good eating berries. The Jucunda has not 
been tried very long in this neighborhood, 
and cannot say as to its productiveness. 
The Agriculturist does not do well at all.— 
J. B. L., Lancaster , Pa. 
checking the growth of wood and forcing 
the strength iuto the leaves. 
Variableness of climate is very likely to 
encourage a wide difference in the practical 
application of scientific methods of pruning 
the vine, lienee the diversity Of opinion upon 
this subject among vineyardists. All admit 
the importance of pruning, but it is only in 
the extent to which it should he carried ihat 
they disagree. It is well for those who have 
no fixed practice or system, to make experi¬ 
ments and determine for themselves how 
much or little is necessary. More persons 
have, and always will, err on the side of too 
little than too much. 
