The Farm Journal says: - "One of our neighbors was recently showing us a specimen of his fruit orchard in Philadelphia, only a few feet square, attached to his dwelling, which illustrates how much can be done in a small space. They were Coe's Golden Drop Plums of extraordinary size and beauty, one of them weighing two and a half ounces - a luxury even to look on, to say nothing of the eating qualities, which of this variety are well known to be unsurpassed. We have often observed the superior quality of fruit grown in our city gardens, particularly pears and plums. The comparative freedom of the latter, in the city, from the curculio, is no doubt partly owing to the pavements admitting no harbor for their eggs, which are destroyed with the punctured plums when dropped. We know of a case where air-slaked lime was applied once a week, early in the morning, by dusting it over three plum trees. Adjoining were three other plum trees, equally loaded with fruit, to which the lime was not applied. In the latter, the plums were stung and all dropped off; in the other case they ripened and perfected all their fruit.

What has become of Matthews' remedy for the curculio ? Are not the committee prepared to report ?"