Importations Of Bulbous Plants From Japan

The following figures show what proportion the exportation of bulbous plants from Japan has assumed.

In the month of August, 1889, there were shipped from Yokohama to Hamburg, 232 cases ; to London, 2,531 cases; to San Francisco, 17 cases; to Hong Kong, 120 cases ; to Singapore, 223 cases. In September, 1889; to Hamburg, 490 cases; to London, 2.548 cases ; to New York, 112 cases. to San Francisco, 439 cases ; to Bombay, 61 cases.

In October, one house alone shipped, among other things 419 cases of lilies.

The total number of cases shipped from Yokohama during these three months amounted to 1,192, containing about 700,000 bulbs, the greater part of which were:

Bulbs Of The Lilium Aura Turn

Sempervirens.

Inarched Elms

In our last issue (page 432) we described and figured an old apple tree in which the main branches had been tied together by a living brace made of united twigs. This species of grafting or inarching can be used in many places to advantage. The accompanying illustration shows four elms inarched about twelve feet above the ground. The trees were fastened together securely when young, and they have now united into one solid trunk for a considerable space.

Information Wanted

I wish to obtain direction for the preparation of the different insecticides, and the proper time of application. I think you will confer a great favor on the public if you will give a clue as to where and how the said information can be procured. Is there any recent book or pamphlet on the subject, and where and how can it be had ?

[Horticulturist's Rule-Book, supplied from this office, will give the desired information, together with much other valuable matter].

Injurious Insects In Washington

Few injurious insects have yet arrived to make sorrowful the joyous days of our pomologists. I am informed, however, of some local outbreaks of the codlin moth, and some less injurious native insects, in the valley of the lower Columbia. It costs millions of dollars annually to fight insects in the Atlantic states. It will therefore be readily observed how important it is to this favored fruit region to keep out the insects, immediately destroying all sporadic outbreaks. Much of the future prosperity of the country depends upon this vigilance. At the very first session of the legislature laws should be passed with severe penalties for negligence in this department of state police. The advances of science will afford no higher results anywhere or in any department of human activities, than in the early and careful use of the various insects destroyers that have been devised. - D.

S. Marvin, Tacoma, Wash.

Insect Remedy For Slugs And Snails

Turn over stones, old boards, etc., and capture all the "sow bugs" you can; let them "go as they please" in the hot-house and cold frames and they will devour everything of the nature of slugs and snails, and some kinds of fungous growth. They will do no injury to any of the plants. Snails, etc., do great damage to lettuce, ferns and the young growth of many things, and growers have use for this remedy. - L. Stevens, Rhode Island.