1853 . 
THE CULTIVATOR. 
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The Curculio. 
Here is a remedy for the curculio, which proved 
entirely successful in the garden of one of our ci¬ 
tizens. 
As soon as the fruit began to form, and the cur- 
culios were found to be about the trees, he took a 
barrel of air-slaked lime into the garden, and with 
a large shovel threw the lime among the trees, 
covering them completely, and to use his own 
expression, “ making a 'perfect smudge At this 
they seemed displeased and left; he observed them 
crawling over the lime-covered fruit in a few in¬ 
stances, but they appeared restless and uneasy, 
and soon all left. Along in June they again made 
their appearance, and the liming was repeated, 
which was again successful in driving them away; 
and once again, just before the plums began to 
ripen, he gave the trees another dose, having ob¬ 
served some curculios about. His trees were 
loaded with fruit, while there were but few grown 
elsewhere in the city. A. large branch, loaded, 
was exhibited at the August exhibition of the De¬ 
troit Horticultural Society. I have no doubt this 
course would prove successful if thoroughly tried, 
and where the trees, as in this case, are sheltered 
from violent winds. Chas. Betts. Detroit, Feb. 
Hardy Peaches for Oswego. 
The Beckworth Peach. —This peach was raised 
from seed by Dr. Beckworth, near this city. The tree is 
very hardy, a fine grower-, and never mildews, and a 
great and constant bearer. Fruit from medium to large 
—color red next the sun—flesh yellow, rich and good; 
red at the stone, which is small for so large a fruit—ripe 
the first of Sept. This peach sometimes reaches, in good 
cultivated gardens, nine and ten inches in circumference. 
All know the past season has been an unusual hard one 
for peaches. The Beckworth Peach with me, gave a fine 
crop, whereas the Early Tillotson, and other fine varie¬ 
ties, produced none. N. Goodsell informed me that in 
this county, wherever he found the Beckworth peach 
tree, he found peaches. 
We have another fine peach, found growing in the gar¬ 
den of Esq. Lord, in this city, name unknown, though 
we sometimes call it the Lord Peach, to distinguish it 
from others. The tree makes a round, bushy, hard 
young growth, short and strong; slightly mildews at the 
top—leaves large, deep serrated. The leaves on this 
tree are never affected with the curl. Fruit medium in 
size, speckled with red next the sun—flesh, white, juicy, 
sweet, and first rate—ripens with the Early Tillotson, 
and equal to it in flavor. The White Imperial and 
Cole’s fearly Bed, and a few others, promise well. S. 
Worden. Minetto, Oswego Co., N. Y. 
Horticultural Notes. 
Peach Stocks for, Plums. —These have been 
pretty thoroughly denounced by cultivators gene¬ 
rally, and yet in some instances they have suc¬ 
ceeded well. S. L. Goodale, of Saco, Maine, 
an intelligent and successful cultivator, states that 
out of five hundred young trees, planted with care 
in the best possible soil, not one in twenty ever 
paid the first cost of the tree. Other experiments 
resulted still more unfavorably, all perishing after 
cumbering the ground from two to five and seven 
years. He gives an exception however in case of 
a tree of the Imperial Gage, one of the best varie¬ 
ties for this purpose, which grew twenty five feet 
high, eight inches in diameter, and bore bushels of 
fruit. Henry Little, of Bangor,an equally skil¬ 
ful cultivator, entertains a more favorble opinion 
of peach stocks, and describes a tree in his garden 
which for seven years has grown finely and borne 
enormous crops, the branches resembling clusters 
of grapes, or strings of onions. 
Manetti Stocks. —The Manetti Rose has been 
cultivated for some years past in this country, but 
Avhat success has generally attended, its use as 
stocks for budding, we have not been informed. 
A late number of the Gardener' > s Chronicle, pre¬ 
sents some very favorable reports. A border of 
pillar roses, was planted eight or nine years ago, 
chiefly with varieties of Hybrid China, and Hy¬ 
brid Bourbon, a part budded on Manetti, and a 
part on the Dog rose. At the present time, those 
budded on Manetti stocks, exhibit an appearance 
of great vigor, and present a strong contrast with 
those on the Dog rose. The former are seven to 
eight feet high, and among them are Baronne 
Prevost, Charles Duval, Legonne, Parigot, &,c. 
They are ten years old, and the union between bud 
and stock is so perfect as scarcely to be distin¬ 
guished. The following -sorts are mentioned as 
succeeding very finely on this stock:'—“ Standard 
of Marengo, Duchess of Sutherland, Baronne Pre¬ 
vost, Beranger, Caroline de Sansal, Baronne Hal- 
lez ( the most perfect and beautiful rose ever seen,) 
Geant des Batailles, &c.” 
Fruitfulness of Budded and Boot-grafted 
Trees. —Some months since, we published an abstract 
of the discussions on this subject in the North-Western 
Fruit Convention—we have just received the following 
remarks from Adnah Williams, of Galesburg, Ill. 
“ Have you observed any difference in the fruitfulness 
of trees, whether budded or root-grafted—here, trees 
that have been worked on sections of roots,—one of the 
first lots of trees planted here, brought from the neighbor¬ 
hood of Bochester, (from Asa Bowe. of Greece,) wheth¬ 
er worked on whole or pieces of roots, I am unable to 
say, have almost universally proved unproductive, hard¬ 
ly an exception to be found; while trees sold from an¬ 
other nursery commenced here some years afterwards, 
which were budded, have, almost without exception, 
proved very fruitful.” Some varieties are usually 
very productive, others the reverse'—we do not see on 
what principle this peculiarity of those sorts could be 
so essentially changed by the mode of propagation—un¬ 
less budding serves to render them more like dwarfs, 
and consequently tends to the production of fruit-buds. 
But facts are facts, and the subject is worthy of further 
examination. •- 
Dwarf Pears for Market. —A writer in the 
Maine Farmer, proposes the four following varie¬ 
ties, for profit, in the following proportions for 
every hundred, which is a good selection:— 
50 Louise Bonne Jersey, 
20 Vicar of Winkfield, 
20 Beurre d’Aremberg, 
10 Glout Morceau, (strong soil.) 
Large and Small Trees. —Dr. Emmons, in his 
geological report, mentions evergrees ti’ees on the Adi¬ 
rondack mountains, so reduced in growth by altitude as 
to be only five or six inches high, and Humboldt, in his 
“ Cosmos,” speaks of a species of pine only three tenths 
of an inch in height. On the other hand, the writer 
has seen pine trees in Tompkins county, N. Y., that 
measured one hundred and seventy feet high, which 
however were mere liliputians compared to the giants of 
the western coast in Oregon and California, some of them 
10 feet in diameter, and 260 feet high—one, measured 
by Lewis and Clark, was 318 feet. A single tree in 
Astoria has made a hundred thousand shingles, which 
sold for $1500, in gold. 
