Editor of Horticulturist: In your paper of this month, Mr. Gardener writes that he saved his plums from the. ravages of the Coroulio, by piling small stones to the height of eighteen inches round the trees. I will vouch that a pavement of brick or stone to the extent of the branches, would secure the fruit as long as the trees bear fruit. In twenty-seven years, I have lost no plums by the Curculio round my house. I have a brick pavement to the extent of all the limbs. In my garden adjoining, I have not had a tree to perfect a single fruit, except two years. I leave a circle of about three feet diameter round each tree, to let in water, and cover the earth with small stones or coarse gravel. The Curoulio is a winged insect, and flies from garden to garden. The reason why they do not deposit eggs in plums where there are pavements, is this: Providence gives them sense not to deposit their eggs in plums where the insects, when the plums fall to the ground, cannot crawl into the ground, and get warm winter quarters. I have seen frequent statements, where a part of a plum-tree extended over water, no plums were stung; whilst those over the ground were all destroyed.

The Curoulio is a winged insect; yet we see frequent oases where persons say they saved a crop by hanging a scythe on the tree, tying some soft wax round the body of the tree, to prevent the Curoulio from crawling up the trees, and others, by shaking the tree twice per day, and killing the insects as they fall from the tree. If the insects had two particular hours to perform the work, I should have full faith in it; but, till convinced of this, I should as soon believe in spiritual rappings.

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A very sensible remedy for this pest is proposed in the Ohio Valley Farmer, by Mr. Walker, of Kentucky. As soon as the fruit is attacked, take a tin pan into which soapsuds has been placed to the depth of an inch or so; place it in the tree, and place a small glass globe lamp in the middle of the pan, which permit to burn all night. In darting towards the light, the cnrculios strike the glass, and are precipitated into the liquid, from which they are unable to extricate themselves.