1854. 
THE CULTIVATOR. 
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houses where artificial heat is not kept up during win¬ 
ter. 
(d) ¥e presume most of the large nurserymen of the 
eastern cities have the different varieties of the Fig, Imt 
do not know with certainty where the Black fig can be 
had correctly. J. Fisk Allen, of Salem, Mass., has 
given much attention to the culture of the Fig, and 
could undoubtedly give all the needed information. 
Insect on Fruit-Trees. 
The last autumn, in taking a review of my fruit 
trees, I discovered something new to me on the peach 
and Morello limbs of the'last summer growth, of which 
I send you three pieces of limbs of the peach, that you 
may see them and make an examination of them; they 
may be something new. 
I wish you to inform me of some work on the grape 
and its culture in full. E. S. D. Warren. Co., Pa. 
On examining the twigs, we find them punctured 
with rows of holes, extending lengthwise with the shoot 
from an inch to an inch and a half in length in each 
row, each puncture containing an egg deposited in the 
pith; some twenty or thirty eggs lying in each row. 
We have often met with them before, in peach, cherry, 
and plum trees, more frequently in the younger trees 
of the cherry. Some years since, they were so nume¬ 
rous on cherry trees that it was with difficulty that un¬ 
injured scions could be obtained for grafting. Flo se¬ 
rious evil, so. far as we know, ever resulted from the in¬ 
sect punctures, except the mechanical injury to the 
young shoots, the growth of which, when they are nu¬ 
merous, is retarded. Their discqyery for the first time, 
by some fruit growers, has led them to imagine that 
they had at last discovered the great secret of the black 
knot or excrescence .; but although we have watched 
them for many years, we never found this result from 
them in a single instance. We have never discovered 
the inseet in the act of depositing the eggs, but from 
their manner of cutting or perforating the limb, infer 
that it is something of the Cicada family. 
An insect which makes similar punctures in branches 
of the Filbert , but on a much larger scale, has nearly 
destroyed all our best bushes—the injury being me¬ 
chanical. 
The best Treatise on the Grape, * is that of J. Fisk 
Allen, of Salem, Mass., prepared from extensive prac¬ 
tical knowledge. A smaller work, of much practical 
merit, on the management of cold graperies , has been 
lately published by Wm. Chorlton, of Staten Island, 
n. y 
Easy way to have Parsley all Winter. 
The following is an easy method of growing this use¬ 
ful little herb, so as to have it fresh and green all win¬ 
ter, for garnishing or flavoring, which every family 
may adopt%ithout trouble or expense. I do not know 
if the plan is generally known ; if it is not, I consider it 
worth knowing. 
Take a good strong half-barrel or whole barrel sawn 
in two; then with a half or three-quarters inch auger, 
bore holes about four or six inches apart, all over the 
side. Then in the fall, say November, dig up out of i 
the ground, strong parsley roots.trim and separate them 
begin at the bottom of the barrel, and insert the crown 
of one plant into each hole, and fill up with any light 
soil, as you proceed, till you reach the top, and a few 
roots may be planted on the top. Place the barrel un¬ 
der the stage in the green-house, or in a warm cellar 
or kitchen, or anywhere where it can get a little light 
and warmth. It will not take up much room any¬ 
where, and is not dirty. It will not only supply you 
with abundance of parsley, but if you have the fine 
curled variety, its greenness and beauty are not its 
least attractions. C. S. Cincinnati. 
New Mexican Cactus. 
Some of the most interesting and curious green¬ 
house flowering plants belong to the cactus tribe, and 
their singular appearance and brilliant flowers have 
long since rendered them favorites. We furnish in the 
annexed. engraving the representation of a new plant 
introduced to cultivation from the neighborhood of 
San Louis Potosi in Mexico, in the year 1847. It is 
six inches or more in height, and thickly covered with 
rows of spines, each spine about an inch long. The 
flowers are large, rose : colored, With dark red at the 
"base. It flowers during the summer. 
Extirpating Wild Onions—Inquiry. —Pray will 
you be kind enough to inform the readers of your val¬ 
uable periodical of the most practical way of eradica¬ 
ting wild onions from the soil. Yours very respect¬ 
fully, I. S. C. New Brunswick , N. J. 
Will some of our readers answer the above ? 
