Lime For Tour Fruit Tress

It is a good plan for all fruit growers to apply lime freely in their orchards every two or three years. A half bushel to each tree, or 100 bushels broadcast, per acre, will suffice. Upon lands particularly tenacious, we have known as high as four hundred bushels per acre ; but this was used for a truck garden. Light loamy lands will be best benefited by the lime, and shell lime is better for fruit trees than the usual stone lime.

Limeand Sulphur Versus The Curculio

In the September number of the Horticulturist, page 428, I read a communication from Thos. W. Ludlow, Jr., Yonkers, Westchester county, N. Y., in which he says: "This is the third season that I have been successful in destroying the eggs of the curculio, after they were deposited on the fruit; and I do therefore feel assured that the compound used by me is an effective remedy. I strongly recommend its general use, and if it be thoroughly applied," etc. Now, as I wish to become acquainted with the manner of making the application of this remedy (lime and sulphur), by republishing the original article you will confer a great favor on at least one new subscriber. E. P. Goodsell - Hartford, Conn.

Lincoln

A dark-colored wine; resembles the finer grades of claret, but is much better than that we generally import Alcohol 4) per cent.

Lingustrum Sinense

A deciduous and apparently hardy species of Privet, with slender downy branches, oval-obtuse leaves, and panicles of small white flowers, somewhat resembling those of the common kind. China.

Linnaeus Rhubarb

If any one ever doubted the use of horticulturists, they have only to see what has been done in the matter of rhubarb alone. Freeman & Kendall, of Ravens-wood, Long Island, have forwarded us some stalks which it is no exaggeration to say, are more than double the size and weight of what used to be considered highly respectable. They are mammoths, and we are determined to root up all our old stock at once, to grow this new and valuable artiole. See their advertisement.

Linneu Borealis, (Twin Flower.)

This is the only species in our country of this genus, named in honor of the immortal Linneus. It is a slender, prostrate vine, found in dry woods, and usually excludes everything else from the space it occupies. Its stalks, each bearing a pair of small pink, sweet scented flowers, rise about four inches. I have seen it but in two localities, and its beauty, and the associations connected with its name, have induced me to make a pilgrimage of many miles to visit it.

Liquid Manure For Strawberries

An English gardener has been very successful with his strawberry crop for several years on the same bed, and attributes the abundance and size of his fruit to the use of a liquid manure, composed of one pound each of Epsom salts, Glauber's salt, pearl ash and carbonate of soda, and one-half pound of muriate of ammonia to sixty gallons of water. He applies this manure as soon as the plants show signs of growth in spring, watering them pretty freely without a hose, three times, at intervals of about a week, so as to finish before they come into flower; and, if the season be dry, he finds it absolutely necessary to supply them liberally with common water afterward during the whole time of growth, or their increased activity, he thinks, would very quickly kill them.