A correspondent of an exchange says: About fifteen years ago I received as a present cuttings of the following varieties: White Grape, White Dutch, White Crystal, Cherry May, Victoria, Large Red Dutch and Black Naples. After planting in the usual manner, I took particular pains to cultivate them well. Every spring the ground has been top-dressed profusely with ashes, leached and unleached, well incorporated with the soil under and around the bushes, and has been kept from grass and weeds. Immediately after this application they are mulched with barnyard or chip manure. The result has been that I have never failed of a large crop of the finest and largest fruit, and entirely free from the worm. Near these bushes (perhaps sixteen rods away) I have some of the old common varieties, which have not been similarly treated, but left to take care of themselves, and, as a consequence, they are nearly destroyed by the worms; the leaves during the past two summers being entirely, and many of the smaller twigs totally destroyed. I have come to the conclusion, therefore, that larvae of the currant worm lie dormant during winter in the ground near the bush they intend to attack the next season, and that mixing wood-ashes with the soil destroys them.

I do not profess to be an entomologist, but I certainly arrive at no other conclusion. I am now growing quite a number of bushes in the tree form, i. e. one bush only in each place, six feet apart each way. The advantages consist of easier cultivation, easier gathering, and larger and finer fruit.'