The Lily Family

Of the lily family, its grandeur for the present season is gone, and the bulbs are now being dug up, dried, and assorted for market. The smaller bulbs will be replanted in a few weeks for the next season's growth. Bulbs of the lily family, as well as those of the gladiolus, will soon be potted for winter flowering. For winter flowering the favorite sorts are the white varieties, and also the fragrant and delicately marked Lily of the valley. This last named flower is now forced and brought to great perfection as a winter plant.

Lima Beans

Observing, for several years, that those hills of Lima Beans which were shaded by the others produced fewer and inferior crops than the vines exposed on the outer rows, I lave adopted, with advantage, the plan of planting in borders, wherever I could put them with-out casting the shade on other crops. New hands pick Lima Beans, for winter use, in a young, unripened state; nothing could be more erronest. Let them get nearly dry on their non vines, and soak them for use two nights before boili ting the water on them hot It as a good plan to sprout the Beans under a pane or two before planting them round the poles.*

• It Is a very good plan with most oilier kinds of Beans, as well as by other sorts of garden seeds. - ED.

Lime And Sulphur Versus The Curculio

This is the third season that I have been successful in destroying the eggs of the Curculio after they were deposited in the fruit, and I therefore do feel assured that the compound used by me is an effective remedy, (found in Vol. VII., page 432.) I strongly recommend its general use, and if it is thoroughly applied I have no doubt that in a few years this vexatious little beetle will no longer be considered a pest but rather as a welcome visitor, to aid the trees in throwing off part of their crop, in order that those which are left behind may be better grown, and more finely ripened Thos. W. Ludlow, jr. - Yonkers, Westchester county, If. Y.

Lime Ashes

C. H. Perkins, (Ascutney-ville, Yt.) Lime ashes, which usually consist of wood ashes and lime in about equal parts, are excellent for compost heaps to be used for fruit trees - better than leached ashes - provided they do not contain magnesia. Limestone that contains so much magnesia as to be injurious, will not enerversce rapidly when sulphuric acid is poured upon it. Mr. Antisell, chemist to the American Institute, N. Y., or Prof. Ma pes, of Newark, N. J., will examine a specimen, and inform you of the proportion of lime and magnesia, for a small charge - say $5. The best way of composting the lime ashes is to mix it with five times its bulk of black muck.

Lime For -Peach-Trees

The Hon. John M. Clayton, of Delaware, who was a large and successful peach, grower, found lime the best manure he ever applied to peach trees. He scraped the dirt off and applied from three to a dozen shovelfuls of lime fresh from the kiln to the naked roots. It killed the grubs and favored the growth of fruit. The editor of The Plow said, "certainly we have never seen more healthy looking trees than those of farmer Clayton." Sometimes one can kill the larvae of the cur-culio under peach trees by a heavy dressing of lime recently slaked.