The American Agriculturist states that plants of the wistaria have this season been injured by the Tityrus skipper (Eudamus tityrus), which is described in "Harris' Insects." It is the first and only insect we have ever heard of preying upon the wistaria.

"When you wish to procure young fruit-trees of a particular kind for transplanting, the way is this : Dig around the old tree for some eight or ten feet off, and turn the end of the detached root up out of the ground, and it will send out shoots the first season, and in a few years bear fruit of the same kind as the parent tree, and it will make just as good a tree as the one that you would have to purchase of a nurseryman and pay two or three dollars for".

[We cut the above from one of our exchanges, and give it insertion merely to draw the editor's attention, and suggest to him that when he advised as above to procure a young fruit-tree, he forgot to tell the operator that the young tree would be like the stock on which the nurseryman had grafted his variety, and it might produce a crab, tough and stringy, or a sweet fruit, dry and tasteless, but never the same kind as the budded or grafted tree procured from the nurseryman. With the facility and at the low price at which trees can now be procured, together with the more than usual knowledge and integrity engaged in the nursery profession, there is no reasonable cause, other than that of a desire to know how to do everything, on the score of economy or correctness for any planter of trees, to practice growing them himself. Our advice to every tree planter is to apply to a reliable professional grower and obtain of him trees duly named and of the best character at a good, fair, living price. Take no scrubs or cull trees even as a gift.]