I thank the contributors at pages 78 and 109 of the Gardeners' Monthly, for suggestions on the subject of thrip, in reply to my article on page 18.

As my grapery is a cold one, where fire is not used in a stove more than half a dozen times early in April, I have no heated pipes on which to apply sulphur and milk; and I have had experience enough with sulphur, both burning or simply heated, to know how much, or how little, under circumstances, it will accomplish. I have stonewalks in my grapery and at periods when the insects can be stupefied and made to drop down, the use of a broom as recommended is a proper one; a great many of the thrip can be thus destroyed. I always have my vines trimmed fully in the fall, which I deem much better than pruning in the spring; they are also more easily covered after pruning; they are well washed with tobacco water and sulphur to keep off mice; the larger stems are wrapped with straw and the branches bent down and covered with leaves. About the 10th of April, they are uncovered, washed with soap-suds, suspended, heads hanging until the buds begin to swell, and then tied up.

The wire cup, with paper soaked with kerosene ignited, if handled properly, does less harm, and accomplishes more than it gets credit for at page 110. It destroys thousands of the insects in the autumn whose progeny would otherwise next year amount to millions. Meadville, Pa.