The following "shocking " method of destroying slugs and snails we take from the Gardeners* Chronicle. These pests are getting to be very annoying among us, particularly in frames and among orchideous plants. The remedy is curious, simple, and within reach of all; but of its efficacy we have no personal knowledge, "Having a few pet plants which slugs and snails are particularly fond of as food, I have devised the following simple and efficacious mode of protecting them against their and my enemies ; and as this plan may be useful to some of your readers, I herewith send you a description of my galvanic circle. Procure a flat ring of zinc, large enough to encircle the plant; make a slit in the ring after the manner of a keyring, so that it can be put round the stem of the plant and then rest upon the ground. Now twist a copper wire into a ring very nearly of the same circumference as the flat zinc ring, and putting it round the plant, let it rest upon the zinc, as in the illustration. No slug or snail will cross that magic circle; they can drag their slimy way upon the zinc well enough, but let them touch the copper at the same time, and they will receive a galvanic shock sufficient to indues them at once to recoil from the barrier.

It will, of course, become evident thai mural fruit can in a similar way be protected by fastening along the wall two narrow ribbons of the metals mentioned. Other applications of this principle will doubtless be made in many gardens as the occasions arise. In the illustration Z Z is the zinc, s the slit in it, C C the copper wire. - Septimus Piesse, Chis-unck".

Catalogue of Charles F. Erhard's Nursery, Ravenswood, L. I, for fall of 1861 and spring of 1862. - This nursery is devoted mainly to small fruits and Pears.