We. should be glad to receive specimens of the "white worm," though we strongly suspect your plants are infested by the red spider, which is often more destructive to verbenas in the open air than many imagine.

A BOX oF Pears, with a few grafts, has been received from some kind friend, but unao-oompanied by any letter by which to designate the donor.

(Joseph Longworth, Esq., Cincinnati.) Tour beautiful running vine is Ampelopsis bipin-nata, or the Pepper Vine of the Rooky Mountains.. It is certainly one of the most ornamental runners we have ever seen, and will, we hope, be generally disseminated.

(S. W. H.) Yes; you will find a note to that effect in the third volume of Michaux, page 37: "An ash leaf,rubbed upon the swellings caused by mosquitos, removes the itching and soreness immediately. The same effect is produced on the poison occasioned by the sting of the bee. The leaves and branches of the white ash are said to be poisonous to serpents, and the leaf to cure their bite. No rattlesnakes are found In white-ash swamps".