I trust your correspondent, James Matthews, Esq., will pardon me for applying the heading of his article in the February number of this volume to my own use, when he finds that which I write will help to confirm his opinion as to the utility of digging about the trees as a preventive of the depredations of the curculio. Every fact relating to the eurculio must be interesting to those who cultivate fruit trees.

It is a fact, that I never raised any cherries, plums, apricots, or nectarines from two hundred trees, embracing many varieties of the fruits named, since the trees were planted seven years ago, until last summer; and then only on a very limited scale, the fruit having been all destroyed by our common enemy.

The words any and all need a very slight qualification-my instinctive love for truth will not let them pass without it I had raised a cherry, a plum, a nectarine, and, I believe, an apricot; butt, as Samivhl Veller would have said, it was only an "agriwashon." Last season three trees partially escaped the ravages of the Turk-two of Prince's Imperial Gage plum bore each about one quart of perfect fruit, and one tree of the Lombard plum bore a peck of fruit, but some villainous boys' stole it the day before I intended to gather it myself.

Having no faith in luck (as I never yet met with it). I attributed this trifling success to the kind of individual escapes you mention in your marginal note to the article by Mr. Matthews. Those three trees were manured and dug around some considerable time after the curculio had commenced operations-in the latter part of June; they had been neglected in the hurry of work earlier in the season: no other trees were dug around at the same time. As I did not expect any fruit I did not look for it; my attention was called to those trees some time afterwards. A reason tor the fruit hanging on those trees, and only on those, never occurred to me till I read the excellent article on the curculio by the above named correspondent If this is a remedy, nothing can be cheaper. I hope it will be tried extensively this coming season. If it fails, no loss can occur by its application.

I do not understand the philosophy of it Poultry will scratch in any place fresh dug and manured. They may in my case have rendered good service by frightening or otherwise annoying the curculio - as seventy or eighty fouls had the run of the place last season. Wm. Hopkins. - Pomona Brunswick, near Troy, N. Y.

The Curculio #1

There is, after all, tome prospect of discovering an effectual remedy for the curculio. The Hon. James Mathews, of Coshocton, Ohio, from whom we had a communication on this subject last winter, writes as follows:

"I have been experimenting thoroughly this season on my discovery of last year of what I then supposed to be a remedy for curculio. I have applied remedies based upon three separate theories, suggested to my mind by my experiment of last season. All have failed but one, which has proved successful beyond my most sanguine expectations. I have saved the fruit on five plum trees and one apricot tree. Last year was the first that I raised a dozen plums in my garden, and I never saved an apricot till this season. I had destroyed all the trees of those which I had, on account of the supposed impossibility of saving the fruit, except one tree of the Black apricot, on which I now have perfect fruit, ripe, not one of them having been stung since I applied my remedy. I am now satisfied that I have found a sure and easy remedy, and all who see the crop of fruit that I now have are likewise convinced. The trees on which I have saved the fruit, are one Green Gage, one Yellow Gage (Prince's), one Caledonian, one Knight's Green Drying, one Royal Hative, and one branch of Kirk's Purple, from a bud of four years' growth on my Black apricot. I shall have several bushels of perfect plums.

In order that my remedy may be more thoroughly and satisfactorily tried and demonstrated, if it be efficient, I shall submit it to horticultural committees, in some of the States, next spring, with specific instructions. One of these shall be New York; and if they report favorably, I shall then make it public, with all my observations of this insect for the last year, which I think will bring to light some new theories and new developments heretofore unknown and un-thought-of, in relation to the character and habits of this enemy.

" Having, however, spent so much time, labor and investigation, to discover the remedy, (if it prove to be effectual when put fairly to the test,) I may not give the matter full publicity until horticultural societies in the country feel interest enough in the matter to offer such premiums as a discovery of this character may merit I shall plant an orchard in the spring, of plums, nectarines, and apricots, with full confidence that I have nothing further to fear from the depredations of curculio".

We may state in this connection, that for several years we had abundant crops of plums without any other remedy than shaking the trees and destroying promptly all punctured fruit.