Pawlonia Imperialis

By cutting off the blossom buds of this plant in winter, they may be bloomed in a greenhouse or parlour. The flower-buds are completely organized in the autumn. During winter they sit upon the branches warmly wrapped in their thick fur coats; when spring arrives they cast off their garments with their torpor, and burst into blossom. Even if remaining on the tree, they nave nothing to feed upon except the little sap stored up in their neighborhood. That sap is as present and active in the dissevered branches as in the branches that remain attached to the tree, and therefore there is nothing to hinder the development of the flowers.

Pbabodt'8 Prolific Corn

A circular setting forth the extreme value of this corn has been received. If Mr. P.'s strawberry, the coming season, equals the picture in the Patent Office Report, and elsewhere, we may "acknowledge the corn".

Pea-Weevil, Bruchus Pisi

To destroy this, a correspondent of Mr. Hovey's says: "As soon as the peas are ripe enough to be gathered, let them be stripped from the pods, and dried carefully for a day or two in the sun. Then place them in a colander, and alter covering them with a plate, set the colander over a vessel of boiling water, until the steam has thoroughly passed among the peas. Then take them out, and spread them for a few minutes to dry, when they will be ready to put away. Thus every insect may be destroyed".

Peach Borer

An Indiana correspondent writes: "A good plan to preserve peach-trees from the grub, is first to wire* them, then throw fine sand round the stem, three or four inches high; it preserves them from the grub, and they grow very fast. One of your subscribers takes this plan, and has no further trouble".

Peach Buds Destroyed

The peach buds in Western New York, we learn, are destroyed, so that lovers of peaches in that section will have to look elsewhere than at home for their supply.

Where a tree of medium size, clear foliage, handsome spray and form is wanted, together with ornament in the way of sweet perfumed flowers and dark, glossy fruit, we commend the Mahaleb Cherry.

Peach Bum

Mr. Mackie, writing from Clyde, N. Y., says: "Peach buds mostly killed here, though not quite all. 12° below zero at 9 p. m., 7 th inst"

The Peach Crop

The Peach crop in New Jersey and Delaware gives promise of being the largest ever known. Contracts have already been made for the delivery of large quantities of this fruit at very low prices.

The Peach Crop #1

We already begin to hear of the destruction of the buds on peach trees about New York. On the 12th of January the thermometer in some places stood 20° below zero. Mr. Downing writes us that the buds are destroyed around Newburgh, and that will probably prove to be the case in many parts of New Jersey.

Peach Culture In Ohio - The Drouth

A correspondent in Adams county, Ohio, writes us as follows:

"In 1863, 1 sold off about nine acres of Peaches to the amount of 13,000, and this when Peaches were plenty and very cheap. Mine were the largest and finest I have ever seen, selling at from $2 to $4 per bushel in the Cincinnati market This year with little over half a crop, and that crippled by drouth, my sales will reach near $2,000.

"Lime, ashes, and bones, added to our free stone soil, has an extraordinary effect This, with careful pruning and good culture, will produce the best of fruit "We have had the dryest and hottest season we have experienced for twenty years. Our crops of Corn and Potatoes are poor indeed. For two weeks past there has not been a steamboat moving on our beautiful Ohio River. I hope you have had a better ...