A friend of ours has deliberately laid a plan for drowning the Curculio! He says:

" I propose to lay out a Plum orchard on a dead level, as near as possible to a pond or spring, and inclose it with a sort of dam, say a foot high, having two sluicess - one to let the water in, and the other to discharge it; the water to be conducted from the pond or spring by means of a ditch or pipe. In due season I will let in the water around the trees, to the depth of two to six inches, then shake the trees well, and instantly let the water rush out, having the sluice large. This operation should be performed daily for at least three weeks. A sort of seine or netting might be fixed at the outlet, so that all the scamps might be caught and killed. The water will by no means injure the trees. I have seen thousands and scores of thousands of Plum trees on low, swampy grounds, on the very edge of streams, ponds, and rivers, in Germany, and they are both healthy and productive. Indeed, a Plum tree can live where no other fruit tree can, except perhaps the Quince and Filbert. This strikes me as the most effectual means that can be adopted where the water can be had.

The word ill not require more than at the rate of one man five minutes for twenty trees".

We should be glad to have this experiment tested; but it seems to us that flooding the soil in which trees were growing, every day for three weeks, could scarcely fail to injure the roots, unless the water were to pass off very quickly indeed, and the soil be of a very porous nature.