MOORE’S  RURAL  NEW-YORKER. 
;^rbrifultitnl. 
WILD  lIlOEN'APPLE  FOR  HEDGES. 
Inclosed  I  pond  sample  of  seods  of  the  tree 
■which  grows  in  this  section,  commonly  ImowTi  as 
the  “  Thoni-ApplG.”  I  am  not  famUiar  with  the 
botanical  name.  Tlie  fniit  is  about  tiic  mz<;  of  a 
cranberry.  Will  some  of  the  llifUAi,  friendp  in¬ 
form  nio‘,  through  your  coluinna,  how  to  K^’inm- 
atethem.  I  believe  this  is  the  nnlnral  hedge 
plant  for  this  section,  and  wiah  to  expcriuieut 
with  it ,  I  lielievo  that  it  ijoaBCSsos  all  the  projier- 
tics  of  a  good  fencing  Khrub,  and  any  mfonna- 
tion  in  regard  to  its  propagation  will  bo  thfink- 
fully  received.  — F.  Williams,  Co., 
N.  r. 
The  needs  sent  are  those  of  some  one  of  onr 
many  native  species  of  “  Ilawthoni,”  or  'fhorii- 
Appie,"  probably  the  common  Coekspur  Thorn 
less  one,  and  its  destruction  is  only  a  matter  of 
time,  and  usually  tlie  farmer  has  not  long  to 
wait  in  order  to  see  the  labor  of  years  destroyed 
without  a  shadow  of  a  chance  to  avert  the  ca¬ 
lamity. 
Another  verj’  provoking  phase  of  this  Haw- 
tliorii  hedge  growing  is,  that  the  borers  will  give 
no  signs  of  their  presence,  (at  least  to  the  inex¬ 
perienced  cultivator^  until  the  hedge  is  of  large 
size  or  fully  established,  then,  without  any  aj)- 
parent  warning,  great  patches  of  plants  along  the 
hedges  will  suddenly  fail  to  loaf  out  in  spring, 
or  die  in  aummei'.  'J'liis  has  lieen  the  fule  of 
niue-teiiUiH  of  tlic  American  Hawthorn  hedges  in 
this  counti’}-.  There  are  also  other  six^cies  of  bor¬ 
ers  whie-li  attack  the  llawthorus,  among  the 
j  most  oonspicuouB  and  wcll-linown  are  several 
I  belonging  to  the  great  family  of  Bufireslvlinna. 
\  The  larvte,  or  grubs,  of  these  beetles  arc  usu- 
1  ally  foim<!  in  the  npfsv  part  of  the  stems  and 
of  the  northern  states,  or,  botaulcally,  Crataigm  i  lower  branches  of  the  trecM  and  Vinshes  whicli 
Criis-gilftiT  The  seeds  of  these  thorns  do  not  I 
germinate  generally  until  tlie  second  year  after 
sowing,  consequently,  it  is  usual  to  keep  them  , 
one  seasou  iu  a  kind  of  preparatory  isinditlon 
before  sowing.  The  usual  mctluHt  is  to  put  the 
apples  iu  a  vessel,  or  heap,  where  the  pulp  will 
soon  rot,  then  wash  out.  tlie  seed  clean,  after 
which  mix  \vith  sand  or  some  kind  of  light  sandy 
loam,  'I’lie  vessels  containing  tbe  mixture  sliould 
then  ho  buried  in  some  moderately  dry  spot  in 
tbe  garden.  We  usually  select  the  north  side  of 
some  buililing  or  board  fence,  where  the  seeds 
will  got  the  full  benefit  of  frosts  in  winter,  and 
not  liocomc  too  diw  in  summer. 
Seeds  thus  jirepar«?d  and  put  in  last  fall,  or 
this  winbT,  may  be  left  undisturbed  until  one 
year  from  next  t'pring,  then  taken  out  and  bowti 
in  many  iws.  If  the  seeds  were  sound  when 
put  in  they  will  soon  germinate  after  the  ap¬ 
proach  of  warm  wcatlier.  If  sown  direct  as  soon 
as  gathered  they  are  likely  to  become  injured  by 
drouths  during  the  ensuing  season,  and  frequent¬ 
ly  not  one  seed  in  a  Ihousand  will  grow.  In  their 
native  habitats  these  seeds  are  ijrotected  from 
drouth  by  tlie  leaves  which  fall  npon  Uicm,  as  I 
well  as  the  shade  from  the  parent  tree,  during 
snminer,  which  is  not  the  case  when  .soivn  in  an 
open  field.  .  .  j 
There  is  really  no  difficulty  in  producing  this  j 
kind  of  hedge  plant  by  the  millions,  if  they  wi-re 
wanted,  Imt  they  are  not,  and  we  wiU  try  to  make  i 
it  plain  to  you,  and  others  w'ho  may  not  know, 
why  the  lla\vthorna  are  utterly  worthless  us 
hedge  plants  iu  this  country.  It  is  not  strange 
that  the  v-irions  siiocics  of  native  Hawthorns 
should  have  early  attraote.!  tlie  attetiUmi  of  our  j 
farmers  who  were  desirous  of  raising  hwiges,  for  j 
many  came  from  Britain  where  “  Hawthorn  lied-  ] 
gos  ’  are  everywhere  cultivated  with  success.  1 
Our  native  specie*  are  even  superior  to  the  for¬ 
eign.  being  sturdy  hushes  or  small  trees,  xrith 
beautiful  foliage,  flowers  and  fruit,  in  addition 
to  their  very  forraidalde  spines.  Hut,  with  all 
their  commended  properties,  their  insect  enemies 
have  compelled  the  hoi-ticultniist  to  strike  tm 
Hawthorn  from  the  list  of  desu  ablc  hedge,  plants. 
Ill  the  beginning  of  this  century  the  farmers 
in  tbe  vicinity  o1  New  York  and  Pliiladclphia 
were  exi>erinicii1lng  quite  extensively  with  the 
native  and  foreign  species  of  Hawthorns,  glow¬ 
ing  accounts  of  success  appearing  in  tlie  pro-  j 
cecdlngs  of  AgilcnUural  duhs  and  societies  of  ' 
that  liay-  Ti’ansactlons  of  tlie  Philadol-  j 
phia  Society  for  J’romoting  Agriculture  (founded 
in  1785)  we  find  a  number  of  communications, 
giving  the  expmlonccB  of  the  writers  with  Mut- 
0118  hedge  plants,  and  tbe  Hawthorn  among  the  j 
number.  Tlie  first  notice  we  find  in  said  IVons- 
actions.  in  regard  to  insect  depredations,  appears 
in  a  letter  of  Jilr.  Paul  Coopfh  of  Woodbury, 
N.  .T.,  communicfited  Hoc.  18(11,  1808,  inwhiob 
he  say:;':  '•  The  White-Tliorn  is  often  exceeding¬ 
ly  injured  by  a  worn,  or  some  kind  of  insect, 
that  kills  tlie  hark  all  around  near  the  surface. 
I  was  discouraged  from  raising  any  more  from 
the  seed,  although  the  insect  did  not  kill  the 
roots,  yet  so  much  dead  wood  looks  vei7  nnhaiid- 
Bomo.” 
For  nearly  seventy  years  the  agricultural  press 
of  this  country  have  been  annually  recording  the 
failure  of  Hawthorn  hedges  in  consequence  of 
the  attacks  of  insects,  and  still,  in  the  face  of 
this  recorded  experience,  we  frequently  receive 
letters  similar  to  the  above,  the  writers  of  which 
cither  claiming  that  the  -•  Ha-wthom  is  the  com¬ 
ing  hedge  plant.”  else  asking  why  it  is  not  more 
cxtensividy  employed  for  tliis  purpose.  Now  the 
principal  insect  enemies  of  the  Hawthc.rn  (cra- 
(cequn)  are  the  same  as  those  which  attack  tlie 
cnitivated  apple-tree.  Tlie  most  destructive  one. 
probably,  is  the  two-striped  Kape-rda,  (Saperda 
candrida)  or,  as  more  commonly  called,  the  two- 
striped  apple-tree  borer.  Tliisjaeetle  deposits  its 
eggs  on  the  stem  of  the  trees  near  the  gromid, 
wliero  they  hatch,  and  the  young  borers  penetrate 
the  flap  wood,  frequently  completely  giriUbig  the 
stem,  causing  the  death  of  the  tree,  as  reported 
by  Hr.  Cooi’Ett  iu  the  letter  quoted  above.  In 
an  apple  orchard  whore  the  trees  stand  singly, 
the  grubs  could  be  cut  out,  or  lolled  by  inserting 
a  wire  into  their  holes,  but.  when  they  once  get 
into  a  Hawthorn  hedge,  the  case  becomes  a  hope- 
they  infest,  working  Just  under  the  bark,  seldom 
{icnetrating  very  far  into  the  solid  wood.  The 
common  flat-beaded  aiiplc-tree  liorer  (c/ir.yw'WA.- 
risfemoraia)  belongs  to  this  family,  and  is  found 
everywhere  from  the  Onlf  of  Slexico  to  Canada, 
and  westward  to  California.  A  plant  with  as 
many  natural  enemies  as  the  common  Hawthorn, 
or  Thorn-Apple,  is  not  very  likely  to  become 
popular  for  hedges. 
Jliarj)  of  a  'pluralist. 
DAILY  RURAL  LITE. 
From  the  Diary  of  a  Centleman  near  New 
York  City. 
FUMIGATING  HOUSE  PLANTS. 
Jan,  20. — .T.  G.  R.  of  (triffin,  Ca.,  writes “  I 
want  to  know  the  names  of  those  plants  in  a 
general  collection  which  are  likely  to  be  injured  j 
by  strongly  fumigating  with  tobacco  smoke  or 
washing  with  whale  oil  soiqi.  1  have  had  to  re-  , 
sort  to  both  to  extingnisli  the  lice  on  Rose 
hushes  and  tUnji.s  and  mealy  bugs  from  my  ] 
Fuchsias  and  other  greonliouse  ]ilaiit.s,  ,My  Co-  ’ 
lens  and  Begonias  of  Hie  ‘‘Rex’*  species  don't 
HOein  tedow'ell  under  Hie  1  real inent,  and  some 
of  the  leaves  of  my  Camolias  liave  xJiomi  a  dis¬ 
position  to  turn  brown;  and  knowing  that  all 
plants  do  not  thrive  under  tlie  same  treatment.  I 
am  led  to  ask  for  a  little  iiiformalion  on  this 
(Kiint,  and  will  esteem  it  a  groat  favor  if  Daily 
Rimal  Life  ”  will  respond.  " 
Tliere  is,  it  is  Ituc,  some  dilfereuee  hi  plants 
in  regard  to  their  suseeptibiUty  to  injury  during 
fumigation  for  tbe  purpose  of  destroy ing  insects, 
still  none  of  those  named  would  be  considered  by 
a  florist  a.s  at  nil  delicate.  I  have  frequeiilly  baxl 
the  plants  in  my  greotibouse  badly  injured  by 
smoke.  The  Heliotbroiie  is  especially  liable  to 
have  its  young  giowlli  cut  off  and  loavos  black¬ 
ened  if  iho  fumigating  is  not  properly  ix^iTormed ; 
but  the  trouble  is  not  caused  by  the  fumes  of 
the  tid laeco,  lint  by  genuine  Miiokc.  Tlie  t obai'co, 
if  too  dry,  will  take  fii-e  and  burn  up  rapidly,  and 
the  (qierator  will  sometimes  use  shavings,  or 
even  carry  a  quantity  of  burning  brands  of  wwid 
into  the  house,  upon  wiiicli  the  diy  tobawo  is 
thrown,  tlie  re.suJt  Ixs'iig  a  hot,  poisonous  smoke, 
which  soon  destaoys  the  leaves  of  ail  the  more 
delicate  phint.s.  To  prevent  any  injury'  liom 
this  source,  the  tobacco  used  for  fumigating 
should  always  be  damp  enough  to  prevent  its 
burning  rapidly,  the  object  being  to  obtain  a 
tliick,  dense  smoke  composed  of  .steam  and  the 
fumes  of  tobacco.  Florist.*  have  to  guard 
against  accidents  of  this  kind,  for  careless  work- 
I  men  will  sometimes  use  diy  tobacco,  because  it 
!  burns  more  freely,  and  a  smoke  can  be  gotten  up 
in  a  linnw  and  with  loss  trouble. 
It  is  also  well  to  ii.vringe  )ilante  with  pure 
water  soon  after  fumigating,  as  this  deans  the 
leaves  aud  washes  off  the  dead  insects  and  their 
eggs.  Whore  one  has  only  a  few  house  plants 
and  it  is  not  convenient  to  fmnigate  them,  tobac¬ 
co  water  maybe  u-sod  instead,  A  deep  tub  or 
half  baiTcl  of  the  liquid  may  be  made,  aud 
wherever  the  Green  Fly  (A/i/tis)  show.*  itself 
upon  a  plant,  it  (tJiC  idant)  can  be  dipped  into 
the  solntion,  which  will  answer  the  samepinqiose 
ns  fumigating  with  tobacco.  Large  plants  which 
cannot  be  handled  conveniently  may  be  syringed 
with  the  same  liquid.  p 
For  esteiminating  “  mealy  bug  ”  I  haveuever 
found  anything  so  good  n.s  alcohol,  or  even  com¬ 
mon  high  proof  wliisky  will  do.  With  a  small, 
soft  brush,  one  can  soon  clean  tlie  bugs  from  .a 
hundred  plants,  no  matter  how  badly  infested. 
Dip  the  brush  into  the  alcohol  and  then  let  a 
drop  or  two  fall  upon  a  cluster  of  mealy  bugs 
and  they  will  disappear.  There  are  some  very’ 
delicate  kinds  of  plants  which  tlie  alcohol  will 
injure  if  nsed  too  freely ;  hut  there  is  not  much 
danger  in  its  application  to  the  ordinaiy  kinds 
cultivated  in  gi-eenhonses. 
BUDS  DROPPING  BEFORE  EXPANDING. 
D.An,T  Rural  Life  I  am  in  trouble  about 
my  house  plants.  They  are  kept  in  a  dining¬ 
room  bay-window  off  the  kitchen,  and  there  is  a 
reservoir  on  kitchen  stove,  and  door  open  more 
or  less.  They  look  green  and  very  healthy ;  do 
not  gi’ow  sickly.  We  ha've  wood  fires.  The 
plant*  have  been  full  of  buds  all  the  winter  and  ^ 
every  one  blasted.  Oleander  is  full  of  buds,  and 
I  am  anxious  to  sec  them  open.  Petunias  have 
budded  aud  blasted  continually,  iteailet  Gera-  ' 
iiiums  ditto.  Pi'imulas  only  budded  once,  and  * 
they  are  going  the  same  way ;  the  outside  leaves  ' 
turn  black  next  to  the  root  and  die.  (’ariiations  : 
are  just  budding  aud  I  am  anxious  to  auve  them. 
I  have  given  them  a  little  hquid  nmniii’e  and 
soap  water.  What  shall  I  do  I — V.  B. 
Jan-  21.  -I  can  do  little  more  than  guess  at 
the  cause  of  the  buds  ib-oppiug  off.  Tlie  atmos¬ 
phere  of  the  rooms  may  be  too  iby  and  warm  , 
during  the  day,  and  too  cool  at  night,  or  yon 
may  water  them  too  freely,  although  the  latter  ^ 
is  not  a  common  fault  in  the  management  of 
house  plants,  Flacw  a  vessel  of  water  in  the 
room  or  among  tin.’  plants  whore  the  cvniKiration  , 
therefrom  will  be  likely  to  increase  the  inoistni  e  j 
bi  the  atmosiihere,  and  then  give  water  to  Ihi! 
roots  of  the  plants  more  sparingly  for  a  few  ] 
weeks,  and  see  what  effect  this  treatment  wDl  ^ 
have.  Of  course,  it  is  not  ailvisablo  to  withhold  | 
water  until  tlie  foliage  beguis  to  wilt,  altimugli  ^ 
this  would  not  he  as  likely  to  injure  them  as  to  i 
keep  the  roots  in  soil  continually  soaked  full  of  i 
water.  ! 
'niere  are  many  iKisons,  who  iu  theh  over¬ 
anxiety  to  prevent  house  plants  from  suffering 
for  waul  of  moistui’c,  koe))  the  soil  uliont  the 
roots  hi  a  semi-liquid  coiulition,  which  excludes 
the  air  and  causes  disease  and  decay.  The  water 
plants,  such  ax  Uie  coiinnon  (.’alia  or  lUliiojiinn 
lily  will  thrive  under  these  comlilions,  hut  tliose 
wliieh  are  found  in  then'  native  hahitats  upon 
high,  dry  soils  are  likely  to  suffer  from  too 
much  moisture  iihuiit  their  roots.  Then,  again, 
the  greater  I'lti  I.  of  the  plants  we  cnltivato  in  our 
gi'wnhoiiHes  are  natives  of  climates  where  tliore 
are  heavy  dews  at  night  which  wash  (he  loavi^s 
once  in  tweiity-fonr  hoiu-s.  leaving  rains  out  of  | 
the  question  ;  lienoe  it  may  reatiily  be  seen,  that 
sprinkling  the  leaves  of  siicli  plants  when  grow¬ 
ing  under  artbicial  condit  ions  is  a  very  important 
operation.  The  water  wliicli  falls  in  the  Form  of 
rain  passes  dowu  to  the  roots,  but  the  dews  do 
Uttlo  more  than  wet  the  foliage  and  fill  the  snr- 
roiuiding  atmosphere  with  moisture.  In  cnlii-  l 
I  vating  plants  nnder  in'tiflcial  conditions,  we 
shonld  strive  to  imitate  uatui-o  ns  closely  as  poa-  j 
Bible,  but  to  do  this  it  becomes  necessary  to  know 
soiiiethiiig  of  the  natural  history  of  each  species,  j 
inclndlng  the  soil  luid  climate  in  which  they  wore  ] 
’  origiiipllv  found. 
!  CUTTING  DOWN  THE  OLD  LOCUST  TREES. 
j  Jan.  22.— A  half  century  or  more  ago  the 
fanners  on  Long  Island,  in  New  Jersey  and 
'  some  of  ibc  adjacent  regions  of  counb^,  paid  con- 
I  siderahle  attention  te  the  planting  of  locust  trees. 
!  The  demand  for  locust  timber  at  the  time  named 
was  quite  hri.sk  and  good  prices  w'ere  obtained, 
large  (piantitios  beuig  n-sf-d  in  the  constniction 
of  vessels  of  varimi  s  kinds.  Many  of  the  fanners 
■  of  Long  Island  aud  New  Jersey,  scattered  loeiist 
!  seed  iu  their  wood  lands,  aiul  a-s  the  j  ouug  seed- 
(  lings  grew  up  the  otJier  lands  of  timber  were  re- 
I  moved  m  order  to  give  the  locust  room  (o  grow. 
.Some  oflliesc  old  locust  forests  still  remain,  but 
the  timber  is  iu  les.s  demand  than  fonnerly,  ^d 
it  is  well  tliat  it  is  so,  for  the  snjiply  has  rapidly 
'  diminished  of  late  years  through  the  depredations 
of  lUsi-cts. 
Home  of  the  main  roods  in  my  own  neighbor- 
,  howl  as  well  us  in  otlier  paiXs  of  New  Jersey  are 
bordered  with  rows  of  locust  trees  planted  fifty 
to  eeventy-five  years  ago.  But  these  old  tieos 
have  long*  since  ceased  to  be  cither  useful  or  or- 
iiamcntAl,  and  of  kte  many  of  them  have  become 
dce-idedly  dangerous,  for  their  woimi-eaten 
branches  are  broken  off  and  scattered  along  the 
highwavs,  putting  the  lives  of  those  who  may  be 
^  obliged'to  pass  along  the  road  in  i>eril.  A  laj-ge 
immbor  of  those  old  locust  trees  iu  my  neighbor¬ 
hood  have  been  cut  dnvni  during  the  past  few 
weeks,  and  I  have  examined  those  fallen  monarchs 
with  considerable  interest. 
1  The  well-knovni  locust  tree  borer  or  Fainted 
'  ClytuB,  i^Clvtus  pn'.tu(C)n  the  larva  of  a  handsome 
beetle  iiearlT  an  inch  long.  It  is  of  a  black  color, 
beautifully  ornameuted  wlUi  goldcn-coloied  simts 
bands  and"  striiH’s.  These  beetles  appear  in  Sep- 
temlior.  the  female  deiiofliting  her  eggs  in  the 
orevices  of  the  boik  on  locust  trees,  where  they 
hateli  and  the  grubs  or  borer  soon  penetrate  the 
sap-wood,  pasfang  tlieir  various  tonsronnution,s. 
and  appearing  again  as  beetles  iu  the  following 
antmuii. 
Now,  in  examhiing  tlie  severed  Btems  of  these 
old  bees  lately  cut  down  1  find  no  mai’ks  of  iu- 
1  sect  depredations,  on  the  lower  part,  the  fii'st  ten 
j  feet  or  more  beuig  sound  and  generally  free 
from  scars,  but  aljove  this  bie.  burrows  of  the 
borer.*  liegin  to  ayipear  and  inci'ease  very  rapidly 
luitil  the  groirth  during  the  last  dozen  ur  twenty 
year.*  is  completely  honey-ounibcd  by  the.se  pests. 
,  I^om  my  slight  examinations  of  those  trees,  I 
!  conclude'  that  the  loenst  borer  was  not  very 
'  i  abundant  in  tliis  neighborhof>d  forty  or  fifty 
(  '  Tears  ago,  but  as  no  efforts  v,'ere  ever  made  to 
,  prevent  their  lav.'igcs  the  incieasc  in  number 
I  has  been  quite  rapid.  At  pesenf  every  sa^ng 
and  sprout,  an  inch  or  two  in  rliBineter,  is  certain 
'  to  be  attocked  bv  this  insect,  consequently  no 
!  I  one  hereabout  woiild  tliiuk  of  planting  the  locust 
I  tree  for  anv  nuruo.sc  wbutever.  Tlie  fate  of  the 
(ik  6arkn. 
EXPERIMENTS  WITH  THERMOMETERS. 
A  WEiTEK  iu  the  Maine  Farmer  relates  the 
following  incident; — Wliile  working  in  uiy  gar¬ 
den  the  last  dav  of  June,  1872, 1  found  it  so  un- 
comforiably  hot  tliat  I  concluded  to  suspend 
work  liming  mid-<lay,  but  on  repairing  to  a  lo¬ 
cality  of  some  twelve  feet  lower  gronnd,  I  found 
I  could  work  more  iNjuifortably ;  and  to  test  by 
the  thcmioinotei-  the  iliffei  irnce  of  heal.  I  placed 
it  ill  sever.al  localltios  in  my  garden,  embracing 
Icsstluan  an  acre  of  gi'oimd,  and  found  that  it 
varied  six  degrees  within  a  distance  of  ten  rods. 
3Iy  g.irden  being  composed  of  a  clayey  loam  soil 
I  bad  been  nnalile  to  procure  early  vegetables 
and  fruit  so  soon,  by  a  week  or  more,  as  my 
iieiglibors,  whose  gardens  were  of  a  light  sandy 
soil,  and  siipjiosed  the  difference  in  the  time  of 
maturing  vegetables  was  owing  to  tlie  different 
soils.  Hince  that  time  I  have  planted  my  vege- 
bibles,  which  I  wished  to  mature  early,  in  the 
lo(!ality  where  the  tliiTinometer  indicated  the 
highest  tempornture,  and  have  succeeded  in  ob¬ 
taining  early  vcgi-lalilos  and  fruit  as  .soon  us  my 
iieigbborii.  T  find  that  tliey  will  l  ipen  ten  da.\s 
earlier  than  the  same  varieties  planted  ten  rods 
distant  in  a  cooler  locality,  and  on  equally  di y 
ground. 
Ihcvioua  to  exixTimenting  with  a  thermometer 
I  was  not  aware  biat  there  was  so  much  diff'er- 
ence  in  temperature  in  so  short  a  distance, 
rrobiibly  many  of  your  readers  w  ho  find  it  difti- 
cnlt  to  raise  early  vegetables,  by  a  little  experi¬ 
ment  with  the  thermonieter  might  meet  with 
siiiillar  success  on  their  own  premises. 
.President  I’armclee  of  Michigan  give.s  bis  ex- 
jM!rienco  of  Uie  diffcrcucc  of  ti'mpei'aturc  in 
diffVient  localities  as  follows  :  I  have  long 
held  and  prciudied  that  hollows,  from  greater 
cold,  arc  utterly  impracticable  as  sites  for 
I  orcliai'ding.  People  will  have  it  that  the  differ¬ 
ent  tempcratiues  at  ilifTen-nl  jHiints  are  owing  to 
the  difference  in  tbermonieters,  .and  a  council  of 
iiistriiiiienls  was  called  at  the  Fai'mers’ Cluh,  at 
which  were  present  ten  thermometers,  and  the 
ti'ial  showed  an  almost  jaiToct  agreement.  Mr. 
Brinkman  brought  liis  np  to  my  rcsideiiee  one 
'  stUl  cold  evening,  and  with  mine  was  hung  on  a 
I  tw  ig  near  tlie  house.  After  ample  iinie  to  settle 
1  we  hung  them  in  niy  cherry  orchard,  lower 
ground,  and  they  went  down  nine  degn-es,  M'e 
I  then  carried  them  about  a  stone's  throw  west,  to 
1  the  top  <,r  a  ridge,  and  they  came  u)»  eight  de¬ 
grees,  and  the  diffcii  ncc  of  uUitude  was  only 
eleven  feet.  tVo  then  took  them  down  on  the 
little  lalco,  between  my  house  and  the  dock,  and 
thev  sank  twenty-three  degrees.  On  my  rctmn 
home,  my  thermometer  came  hack  to  the  starting 
point.” 
Tt  iB  very  common  during  some  seasons  of  the 
year,  to  find  warm  currents  of  « Ir  varying  from  a 
few  feet  to  several  I'oda  iu  width.  The.se  w.ann 
ciuTciits  aie  usually  found  on  hills,  and  jirobably 
are  deflected  liy  local  causes,  forests,  buildings 
&c.  It  is  an  interesting  query  whether  any 
locality  in  a  neighborhood  is  pci-manently  warmer 
than  otliers,  e.xeept  as  exposure  to  the  snu  and 
reflection  of  the  suns  rays,  might  natnridlj  ac¬ 
count  for  the  difference.  We  have  sometimes 
thought  that  variations  exiated  which  could  not 
be  easily  accounted  for,  but  lack  definite  facta 
to  warrant  the  expression  of  any  theory. 
PECULIARITIES 
SEED-GERMINATION . 
'  tree  for  any  purpo.se  wbutever.  Tlie  fate  of  the  tlius  treated  entirely  eseaiied  disease,  gre 
I  locust  tree 'in  my  neighborhood  wiU  probably  bo  ^  prosperously,  while  the  remaining  |>orKon 
,  ,  fl.ecrop,o.et.;™».nd  hundred  plap.,, 
1  conntrv.  *  ‘ 
The  instance  quoted  by  Mr.  AVebsier,  says  the 
Gardenera’  Chronicle,  of  a  Plum  seed  vegetating 
after  having  been  boiled  in  the  jam.  is  nut  the 
otily  one  of  the  kind  on  record.  Dr.  Lindley  has 
mentioned  u  case  of  Raspberry  seeds  vegetating 
aftei'  tieing  subjected  to  the  same  ordeal,  and  ho 
also  states  that  the  practice  of  boiling  ihe  seeds, 
of  leguminous  plante  especially,  -with  the  object 
of  making  them  germinate  moiv  readily,  had 
been  adopted  by  several  persons  with  perfect 
success  (Theoi7  of  Horticulture).  The  tact 
does  not  appear  so  wonderful  when  we  know- 
that  seeds  will  stand  without  injiuw  a  tempera¬ 
ture  as  far  below  the  germinating  point  as  above 
it.  I  suppose  an  i-xti-emely  low  temperature  is 
as  desti-ucHve  to  vitidlty  as  a  high  one,  and  that 
both  act  something  in  the  same  way.  Seeds 
seem  fitted  by  Nature  to  survive  under  veiy 
adverse  circumstances,  existing  for  ages  i  I  buried 
deeply,  and,  what  is  qnite  as  singular  as  anything, 
passing  unscathed  through  animals  that  have 
the  power  of  iHgesting  very  extraordinai^  sub¬ 
stances. 
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To  Prevent  Club-Foot  Cabbaoe. — A  Gennan 
market  gardener  in  Pemisylvania,  in  putting  out 
Ids  cabbage,  followed  tlie  German  custom  of 
'•puddling”  tlie  roots  of  a  jiart  of  his  plants  in  a 
thin  mixture  of  cow-mannre  and  water.  Five 
rows  thus  treated  entirely  eseaiied  disease,  grow- 
iiig  prosperously,  while  the  remaining  |X)rKon  of 
four  huudi-ed  olauts,  all 
