I find tobacco stems placed about the root of a peach tree answer three important purposes, viz: that of a good mulch, destroy the borer, and answer the object of a splendid fertilizer.

Wood ashes also destroys the borer, and is an excellent fertilizer, supplying that important principle in plant growth - potash - of which the peach requires a considerable quantity.

The unusual thrift and health of our currant bushes and their exemption from the currant worm, prove wood and coal ashes to be also a useful fertilizer for them as well as the peach.

New Albany, Ind., July 23d, 1885.

[When our correspondent writes that wood ashes destroys the borer, we understand him to mean that the borer dislikes to work where wood ashes are. - Ed. G. M.J