mantei gardeners than amateurs, and we pre¬ 
fer to wait a few days for a variety like 
Moore’s Early Concord than to spend time 
over the very dwarf and extra-early sorts. 
For a lat-e and reliable variety the Evergreen 
‘ weet 13 8t >U unsurpassed, although it has 
been many years in cultivation. 
Cucumber. —The Early White Spine is one 
o the best for the table and Long, Green 
ri ickly for pickling. The fancv sorts, such 
these worms have been killed are almost 
trees 0 *’ larg6r a ' ld fairer than on other 
It-can be used hist as safely in the flower- 
garden, destroying the insects that infest 
the shrubbery, as in the orchard. 
Granville Herring, Esq., of this city, 
whose farm is in the Town of Durand in this 
county, where he formerly resided, prepared 
himself last spring for a vigorous warfare 
upon these worms, and did fine execution. 
He constructed a tank holding, he thinks, 
not far from four barrels. 
It was 4 feet long, 3 feet high, and wide 
enough to Just fit into his lumber wagon 
box. The top planes extended 2 feet further 
SELECTIONS FOE VEGETABLE GARDEN 
DE8TE0YING CANKER-WORMS IN 
ORCHARDS. 
with a sprinkler. The sprinkler has about 
fifty one-eighth inch holes, which Mr. Herring 
says, should not be more than one-half the 
size. He then filled the tank with liquid 
Paris green, which he was careful to strain 
through fine wire cloth, and to keep well 
stirred to prevent its settling. 
After killing the worms in his own 
orchard, he did the same for several of his 
neighbors’ among whom was David 
Campbell. Mr. Campbell’s orchard was 
visited the year before by such vast 
oumbel's that when they had stripped 
the apple-trees they covered his house and 
barn outside audlin ; but, finding nothing 
to eat, they soon disappeared. His trees this 
year were all saved, with the exception of a 
few that were stripped of their foliage be¬ 
fore Mr. H. was called. Mr. Campbell says 
Mr. Herring saved him 300 bushels of apples. 
Mr. Severance, whose place is 6 miles 
north of tins city, on the river road, has 40 
acres of orchard. He had never seen a 
canker-worm in it until last spring ; he then 
discovered that they had fairly covered 
about 250 of the trees: With ,i barrel of 
water, t. patent, pail, plenty of Paris green, 
and a hand force-pump, all in a lumber- 
wagon, he started for the orchard. He pre- 
pared liis liquid, a pailful at a time ; he then 
fixed his force-pump by screwing on the 
nozzle a piece in which there are two holes 
for the water, throwing two streams 
together, breaking them into tine mist. Mr. 
Severance says that the fester he pumps, the 
finer is the mist; that the water can bo 
thrown with such force that he can fairly 
cover a tree from one stauduoint. and nnlv 
" onuer ana nwarr White Wax. To keep up 
a supply it is necessary to make several sow¬ 
ings, at intervals of about two weeks. Sow 
in drills in rich soil and then keep the weeds 
killed ; these are the main requirements of 
successful culture. The White Marrow is 
one of the best sorts for cooking when ripe 
and general use in winter. The White Kid¬ 
ney is also an excellent variety, and either 
wdl gl ye satisfaction for the purpose named. 
The Large Lima is the most popular pole- 
bean to be used before ripe. If planted at 
the same time as the larger sorts of sweet 
corn it wdl be ready for use in making suc¬ 
cotash, a dish universally popular with all 
classes. Drcer’s Improved Lima is said to 
be an improvement upon the older sorts 
being more productive and of better quali¬ 
ty—but of this we cannot speak from expe¬ 
rience. 
Buts -For an early table beet, the old, 
Early Mat Bassano i# still one of the very 
best. It also succeeds (like nearly all of the 
varieties of this shape) better on light soils 
t urn the long, tapering-rooted sorts. The 
Bassano is a white-fleshed or pale, rose-col 
ored variety, very sweet and of delicious 
flavor. I here are persons who prefer a deeper 
yolor in a beet, as a mere matter of taste, and 
these can be accommodated in the new Dark 
Red Egyptian which, in earliness and form 
oi growth, is similar to the Bassano We cul 
tivated both varieties side by side last year, 
and with the exception of color, could really 
see httle room for a choice between them 
For late winter use our choice is the Long 
Smooth Blood Beet. If a sweeter and d £ 
ferent colored sort is desirable then there 4 s 
nothing better than Lane’s Improved Sugar 
Persons who are fond of -greens” in summer 
ahou d sow a bed of Swiss Chard, the leaves 
of which may be used in place of Spinach, or 
the leaf-stalks cooked and dressed the same 
as Asparagus. 
Cabbage-Early Wakefield is an excellent 
and popular sort. Winningstadt is probably 
the most sure to head and quite popular oil 
this account but the quality in our opinion 
s not equal to the Early Wakefield or Early 
iork. For superior flavor, however, the 
Savoys, or curled-leaf varieties, should he 
Bought Sutton's Tom Thumb Savoy is im- ' 
rivaled in this respect, although a very small , 
variety suitable for culture in small gardens. - 
* or a winter variety the Premium Flat Dutch . 
is as good as any, although not quite equal to , 
the Marblehead Mammoth in size. 
Carrots, Bliss’ Improved Long Orange is ! 
anvoMh 0 " 4 S ° rt aQd P robab] y as ^od os * 
r f , a 6 n UmerOUS v ' arieties iu cultivation, f 
Cauliflower. Half-Early Paris has been a t 
favorite sort with ns for the past ten years s 
n^?° re ;. aU ? aIthoUgh Wc have tried many c 
facto^ fi, SalWay5bben the most satis- t 
factory, taking one season with another To r 
the beading o£ Cauliflowers in sum- h 
Thl’ h ° S ,° 1 muSt be rich - 0001 and moist, tl 
he simplest way of insuring the last two t, 
Sme‘S T‘ Uber *‘ ‘Wta'tioa of b 
some kind of mulch, even if nothing „ 
looked »3 though fire had swept through 
them, the trees as innocent of green leaves 
as in mid-winter. 
The object of this letter is (if possible) to 
convince the public that this remedy is 
pratical, effectual and safe ; and that, with 
very little effort, this - pest of the orchard ” 
may be blotted out. 
I quote so much of my former letter as is 
essential in this connection. 
The female canker worm rises out of the 
fCround m the soring, os soon as the frost 
is out, aud crawls up the trunk of the tree 
(as she is wingless), and deposits her eggs 
under old bark or io rough places which 
hatch m May or the forest of June into 
small, looping caterpillars, or so-called 
measuring-worms, which soon spread over 
t.hetrene .1_# uvor 
lurmi ami colors, which, though united, be- 
/7/ longed to different 
. kinds. This was the 
result of grafting ; and 
al though such unions 
■Mff Mill naturally appear ex- 
. WL If ‘ ffl I' traordinary to people 
hmti ill I | 1 unacquainted with the 
S W III f I ftrfc oI ’ Sifting, yet 
QS I | I those who are familiar 
jaUj il tj [||( with vegetable physi- 
' i'll 4 fv, ology are aware that, 
i'M, ;l ' | fu under certain condi- 
| tions a P or tion cut off 
ifr| I MU one fruit and placed on 
1 \ Ifw anotllor will unite flrm- 
LMLWr i.ii Mi JpMi iy AQJ grow. One con- 
IwIMI diWotl ia indispensable, 
m y ' Z the fruifc n,,wt be 
\ of an analogous char- 
acter and belong to the 
or whtch T ^iIie end h?s ram© family. Another 
thTs^dwan extracted' Precaution that must 
replaced. be taken is to raise the 
epidermis, or the skin of the fruit to be 
united, so as to bring the cellular tissue, in 
x *. 1 * uen wm settle to the bottom, making 
it necessary to stir it frequently, which he 
did by turning the nozzle of the pump into 
the pail, when with two or three strokes of 
the pump it is thoroughly agitated ; that the 
force-pump is valuable for variocs uses, so 
that it cost him but very little lor his 
outfit. He was but half a day in sprinkling 
the 250 trees, and one sprinkling killed every 
worm. 
The Western Rural objects to the use of 
Paris green for killing canker-worms ; thinks 
there is "danger of its collecting and re¬ 
aming in the deep cavity about the stem 
of the apple.” The Rural overlooks the fact 
that, at the time the Paris green ia applied, 
t he apple has but just formed, and has no 
cavity about the stem ; and further, that the 
rains will have washed all the poison from 
the apple long before it has reached matur- 
Y ( i VR1) : 'Dto which the stem of a street 
ha f been Introduced, the Matter ha 
tut off and replaced by a part of a White Go 
the are preying upou the foliage of trees, 
iiese Pa™/ says that after using it last yeai 
first Lh f f,J *Iage made such 'lux 
n of S I0w th, and was so dark and green, t 
»flf was almost black,-which accounts f 
fact that apples grqww on trees on 
'* purpose, 
se worms were in 
however few, you 
