The Periodical Cicada

By Prof. C. V. Riley. Issued by the Department of Agriculture. The best way to learn about anything is to study when the spirit of inquiry is excited. A timely paper has therefore a double value. Just now when we have passed through swarms of seventeen year Locusts, is the time to teach what is known about them, and the community is fortunate in having Prof. Riley for a teacher. It is needless to say that there is little left to know, after a lesson given by Prof. Riley.

Judges At The Universal Exposition At An-Vers

The Government of Belgium, under whose auspices the great international exhibition in Belgium is being held, kindly honored the Editor of the Gardeners' Monthly with a position on the jury in the Department of Horticulture, but which his desire to remain home this summer compelled him to decline.

Trees For Public Squares

Boys will be boys, and remembering this fact a correspondent makes the good suggestion that trees for public squares or streets in a large city should not be kinds that by fruits or flowers offer temptations too great to be resisted in fruit or flower.

Wearing Out Of The Suspension Holes In Zinc Labels

Mr. Joseph Perkins, Cleveland, Ohio, remarks: "A correspondent recently observed that he was troubled with the wearing of the eyelets in zinc labels. We obviate that vexatious result by having two holes (say three-fourths to an inch apart) punched in the label, and by running the wire through the two holes, and with a good twist all wearing is prevented".

Hall's Japan Honeysuckle

"E. S. W.," Berlin, Mass.: The plant sent is Lonicera Japonica. It is known in nurseries as L. Halliana, because it was introduced to America by Dr. Hall. What is commonly known as Japan Honeysuckle appears to be Lonicera brachypoda. This has shining evergreen leaves, and is a great creeper over the ground.

Quicksilver For The Phylloxera

A correspondent believes that a little quicksilver mixed with dirt or sand, is used successfully against the Phylloxera in France. Does any one know of the exact proportions or manner of use ?

To Keep Zinc Labels From Wearing

Mr. E. S. Carman says: "Referring to what " F. W." says (page 164 Gardeners' Monthly), let me say: Use copper wire, and pass it through the hole twice or thrice, instead of once, forming a loop; draw it as tight as can be, and the label will never move upon the wire afterwards".

The English Gooseberry

A letter received after our note on the gooseberry went to press, explained that it was an accidental seedling raised at Catawissa, Pa., and that it was sent to show that it was a very abundant bearer, and free from the mildew which is such a foe to most of the English race. This plant has been growing at West Chester four years and has been as clear of mildew all that time as the original plant at Cata-wissa.