Mr. J. R. Gardener, of Sonny Side, Montgomery County, Virginia, informs us that he has been successful in destroying the curonlio, by piling small stones, to the height of eighteen inches and about three feet in diameter, round the trees. Those thus treated, he says, are loaded this season, while on trees ten feet distant, without the stones, the fruit is all destroyed. The person who first tried it was led to do so, by observing large quantities of plums on trees growing wild, in the rocks, in some parts of Pennsylvania.

Another plan is, to remove the soil from around the tree as soon as the insect was noticed. The earth was taken off about five inches deep, and wheeled away some sixty feet, and scattered about, thus destroying the insect. Trees thus treated are loaded with fruit, while the others are destroyed.

Mr. A. Fahnestock, of Toledo, Ohio, one of the committee on Mathews' Curculio Remedy, has written to the Ohio Cultivator to say it has been perfectly successful; that Mr. Barry was misinformed in saying it was a laborious process, as it requires to be done but once; but still, the remedy does not come to the ear of the public Why is this?