Preventing Mot In Grapes

Dr. A. P. Wylie, of South Carolina, as stated in the Rural New Yorker, prevents bunches of grapes from rotting by enclosing them in paper bags, pinned on, with a pinch of sulphur in each. He thinks the preventive may be applied on a large scale.

Mr. Rufus Peet, of Wyoming county, N. Y., communicates the following remedy for bugs upon vegetation:

I have tried the following prescription against bugs, which has proved efficacious with me: Take fine dry dust from a common road, sift it through a fine riddle so as to remove all stones and lumps, and apply freely with the hand when the dew is on the plant. It was with mo a perfect success last year. No bug was seen upon squash, melon, cucumber, or pumpkin. Let others try and report.

Preventive

Harris, in his " Treatise on Insects injurious to Vegetation," recommends the following as a preventive: To two parts of soft soap, add eight of water, and mix as much lime with it as will make a stiff white wash, and apply with a brush to the trunk and branches of the infected trees in the month of June when the young insects are newly hatched. K.

Prices

Under 500 plants, 50 cents per hundred; under 5,000 40 cents per hundred; over 5,000, 30 cents per hundred; over 10,000, $25 per thousand. Dealers supplied at a discount. F. Trowbridge, New Haven, Conn.

[The cultivation of the Cranberry is so important an item in the history of horticulture that we have requested liberty from Mr. Trowbridge to publish his lucid account We recommend this fruit to the attention of our readers, as one of the most profitable articles that can be planted, and the cultivation of which promises, from the regular demand and high prices, to be permanent. We answer in this way several queries that have been put; as a parlor or green-house plant, the Cranberry is highly ornamental. - Ed].

Price Of Grape-Vines

We are glad to see, from the few new Catalogues that have reached us, that the price of vines has been put down to something like a war figure. We are glad to see it, because otherwise vineyard planting would receive a serious check. People can not afford to pay now the prices they paid a year ago, for vines or any thing else. We notice in Dr. Grant's new Catalogue that the Delaware is priced at 50 cents to a dollar each, and in quantity much less. Other kinds are put at correspondingly low prices. A good vine of any kind worth growing is not dear at a dollar; we doubt, indeed, whether a first-rate vine can be grown for less by any body. We suppose that prices generally will be low this fall, nurserymen usually not being behind others in adapting themselves to circumstances. Now, then, will be the time to buy - for those who have the money.

Price Of Pears

The fruits of Louise Bonne de Jersey which we sent to the New York market were all selected, and sold for from f 16 to $20 per barrel. From the experiments already made, I thought that eight to ten-year-old trees, with good cultivation, would safely yield, at an average per annum, at the rate of over $1000 per acre; and that this variety on our soil would produce at least twice as much money from the same land as any other sort Our trees are about five to six feet apart.