This is a very fine Peach. Eipens in the orchard house 
in the third and last week in August. 
The tree produces large flowers, and the leaves have 
globose glands. 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION, September 8, 1857. 801 
ought to be corrected by the remedies above mentioned. 
One other preventive, and that an important one, we 
must not omit mentioning, and that is frequent digging 
or trenching whenever the ground is vacant, as all 
insects more or less bury themselves in the earth at 
certain seasons, and being disturbed at these times is 
often death to them, consequently digging in very h'6t 
or in sharp, frosty weather is alike destructive to them 
and beneficial to the ground. Ridging, digging, or 
trenching cannot, therefore, be too strongly recommended, 
especially on such soils as the club-root weevil, slugs, 
wire worm, and other enemies abound, as the scorching 
sun or pinching frosts are fatal to insects at a certain 
period of their existence, while outward dressings of the 
plant have but little effect on those suffering from club- 
root, although it may be of the utmost importance in 
cases of mildew. J. Robson. 
CLUB-ROOT OR AMBURY IN CABBAGES. 
In some districts certain complaints prevail even 
amongst the human family to a greater extent than they 
do in others. The agues and fevers of our lowlands are 
but little known in the hilly districts, while these last 
named are not without their peculiar evils. In like 
manner vegetation is subject to some disease in one 
place which is all but unknown in another. The 
mildew on the Vine, which some years ago was so 
destructive in the south-eastern counties, has scarcely 
yet reached the opposite extremity of the kingdom, and 
I believe there are counties which have not yet been 
visited by the Potato disease. These anomalies make 
us liable to look with unconcern on the evils which our 
distant neighbours may be suffering from, especially if 
we have a slight knowledge of the complaint, or rather, 
only suffer from it in a slight degree. The slug, wire- 
worm, caterpillar, mildew, and other evils are seldom all 
seen in quantity at once, and certain situations are more 
subject to one or more of these evils than others, and 
consequently the means used to remedy the evil are often 
of a more stringent character. The farmer in the mid¬ 
land counties dresses his wheat in April and May to 
counteract mildew, using soot as his specific with good 
effect. The hop grower is, however, not always so suc¬ 
cessful in dressing his favourite production with sulphur 
to effect the same object; and sulphur, lime, and other 
things have been sown with Turnip seed as a preventive 
to the fly. These introductory remarks I have made in 
consequence of having received a complaint from a cor¬ 
respondent, “ A. B. 0.,” of the destructive effects of club- 
root in Cabbages, which he says has destroyed his whole 
crop the past season in spite of dressings of lime, soda, 
and potash. This is truly unfortunate, yet quite likely, 
as the disease, under the name of ambury, fingers and 
toes, club-root, and sundry others, is very destructive in 
places if not checked. It arises from a weevil boring 
the stem of the plant a little below the surface of the 
ground, and depositing therein its eggs, which swell 
out the part affected into a sort of hollow tumour as 
large as a Turnip Radish. This ugly excrescence 
commencing its growth on one side often grows and 
surrounds the stem of the plant, which in consequence 
languishes and dies. The evil often commences in 
the seed-bed before the plants are large enough to plant 
out, in which case a remedy is difficult to apply; but 
a partial one is to prepare another bed in which soot 
or charcoal ashes have been liberally worked in, and 
on that to plant out the little seedlings, after carefully 
examining them, and nipping off with the finger and 
thumb any little bumps or excrescences that appear 
about the place where the club-root usually shows itself. 
Dusting a little soot or lime into the wounded part to 
cauterise it will likewise be of service in killing the 
grub, which, however, seldom survives the removal of 
its covering. This is the only cure for the disease that 
I am aware of; but as a preventive charcoal powder cer¬ 
tainly stand pre-eminent; but when these cannot be 
had it is likely that soot or wood ashes may be serviceable. 
As it does not appear that lime and certain salts have 
much effect on this evil other remedies may be tried. I 
may, however, confess that I have not experienced any 
serious effects from this insect for several years, and am, 
perhaps, not likely to do so here; but I have seen it 
bad enough, and generally charcoal powder had a good 
effect. Our correspondent mentions his using manure 
liberally, which no doubt increases the evil; but that 
CUTTINGS OF THE HOLLY-LEAVED 
BERBERRY. 
The most curious thing in gardening that I have seen or 
heard of for the last twenty years is about this, the now 
common evergreen Berberry (Berberis aquifolia). 
I recollect when it was sold at more than one guinea an 
inch, a five-guinea plant not being over four inches long in 
the stem; but now it would pay as well as the Larch to sell 
it for ninepence or a shilling the thousand—that is, at the 
end of the first season’s growth. A friend of mine, a very 
good practical gardener near London, to whom a quantity of 
three^or four-year-old plants of this Berberis were sent from 
the Experimental Garden three years since, told me “ all 
about them ” the other day. Many of them lost their leaves 
next May after planting, but in July following the top of the 
shoots started and made a fair growth. Next season they 
did very well alone, but the bare parts below which lost the 
leaves did not make a leaf, and were not likely to do so; 
therefore, about this time two years since, or a little later’ 
my friend, finding a sufficient number of bottom shoots to 
his Berberis, determined to get rid of the bare parts alto¬ 
gether, and so cut down the plants, and made a dashing 
experiment by way of paying for the Experimental plants. 
Indeed, he thinks that I am, or rather, we of the Experi¬ 
mental are more than paid by the truth of the following 
novelty, namely, the top parts of the Berberis aquifolia 
j were made into cuttings, with one joint of last growth, or last 
season’s growth, in the very old style, to each cutting; they 
were planted just like common Laurel cuttings in the open 
air, and every one of them rooted just as freely as the com¬ 
mon Laurels would. Therefore, instead of cutting down 
the verges of this Berberry by the sides of the carriage drive 
up to and round the “ coach ring ” at the Experimental Gar¬ 
den at the end of May, we shall cut them in September, 
and put in the cuttings.—D. Beaton. 
ORIGINAL DOMESTIC RECEIPTS. 
Common Soft Ginger-bread. —One cup of molasses, one 
cup of sour cream, one tea-spoonful and a half of ginger, 
one heaping tea-spoonful of saleratus, three cups of flour, a 
little salt. Bake in a moderately-heated oven. 
Plain Rice Pudding. —Swell a tea-cupful of rice in a 
quart of boiling water; add a cup of sugar, three quarts of 
milk, and a little salt. Bake three hours. 
To take Grease from Clothes. —Lay the article on a 
linen towel, pour a little spirits of turpentine on a cloth, 
and rub it until quite dry. This will not injure the most 
delicate colours. 
To Clean Floors and Erase Grease Spots. —To a pail¬ 
ful of hot soapsuds take three table-spoonsful of spirits of 
turpentine, and you will have a clean floor. 
To Remove New Fruit Stains. —Hold the cloth tightly 
over some vessel, and pour boiling water through it, and they 
will soon disappear. 
