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IMHBNBB STRIDSSS IN TUB PROGRKSS OB Agriculture and Horticulture. Calomel for I’RUIt Trees. —A gentleman of this city was lately in Saratoga county, and was there shown an ap ple tree in fine, healthy condition, which hud been ill, subjected to treatment with calomel, and thoroughly cured! This tree was afflicted with insects, which were'desnoying it, aid rendering it unproductive. A hole was bored 'into the body of the tree, nearly through the sap, „i,,i two grains of calomel inserted.* As soon as this calomel was taken by the sap, the vermin on the tree died, and it be gan to bear fruit, and lias done so for three years, to to the entire satisfaction of the owner. We are told that sul phur may be mixed with the calomel, and with good effect. It may not be new to them, but it is new to us. Hoiihc pathists and Thompsonians may object to the calomel treatment, but if they do not like it, they may find among the sugar pills of lobelia and red pepper a substitute.— Rochester {N. Y.) Union. There can be no doubt concerning the correctness of this theory—of course not. The Farmers’ Club of the American Institute, New York, will endorse all of the above, and considerable more of the same sort. We un derstand that a plum tree belonging to Dr. Brandretli, cov ered with that dreadful disease the black knot, which has so raged in the plum tree family, was “bored into” and a couple of boxes of bis pills poured in. The result was, that in ninety days every kr ot had disappeared from the bark, and the tree in its trunk resembled a sapling ; so smooth was the cuticle. There is another instance on re cord of an old apple tree that had gotten past its prime ; shedding its leaves every year as early as August, and was so feeble withal, that it could not set the fruit, not having borne a single apple in the past ten years, though each spring it was filled with blossoms. The owner of the tree General Bombshell, purchased a bottle of Jones’s Immor tal Invigorator, bored into the trunk, and poured its con tents therein, and the result was, the next season fourteen bushels and one peek of the most splendid fruit ever seen in Monroe county. General Bombshell sent a specimen of the fruit to the Farmers’ Club. A St. Michael’s pear tree, the fruit of which was subject to crack, was bored into, and a bott.e of the old Dr. Jacob Townsend brand of Sarsaparilla (genuine) was poured in, and the cure was made perfect. \\ hat is strange, the trunk had been pre viously bored into, and a bottle of the young Dr. Jacob’s tried, with no effect whatever—a beautiful illustration of the rare quotation, “ truth is mighty and must prevail.” lo show the wonderful changes that can be produced upon a tree by boring into its trunk, a neighbor of General Bombshell had an old horse-chestnut tree in his yard, sup posed to have been planted by General Washington, as the General was once in that part of the State. °A hole was bored into the trunk of this tree, and three quarts of apple jack poured in, and the hole plugged up. The fol lowing year this old horse-chestnut bore eight peeks of splendid apples of the Brandywine variety, a sample of which was immediately sent to the Farmer’s Club.— New York Day-Book. Cutworms. — l rom my own observations, it appears these worms are never able to crawl the length of their bodies up a perpendicular bank of earth, before they lose their foothold and fall. If my supposition is correct, that these worms come mostly from surrounding fields, I have thought that a single deep furrow around the outside of a field or garden, when the worms are first beginning to ap pear, (any break in the land side of the furrow being re paired with the hoe,) would form a barrier over which it would be impossible for them to make their wav, thus pro tecting the whole field effectually, at a verv trifling cost. — Dr. Asa Ditch , in A. Y. U)tt ontological lie port. Dr. Fitch is a very careful observer, and the above sug gestion may be worthy of trial. It is very certain that cabbage plants, when set in a trench, four or five inches deep, are not molested by the cutworm, and head equally as well, if not better. —Ed. So. Cult. SOUTHERN CULTrVATOR. HEDGE F! INT Y< ANTED. Editors Southern Cultivai : -Will you or some of your contributors inform me, ro» gh the columns of your valuable journal, what plant is best suited r a hedgo where timber is growing on one side? I want to put a hedge around my garden and orchard, on one side of v liich there is timber. Have never tried any hedge plants except the Osage Orange—am very much pleased with it in open fields, but it will not do in timber. The desired information will greatlv oblige, A YOUNG FARMER. Wood! mm, Jcb. 28/7/, 1867. A\ e know of no hedge plant but what will suffer from the presence of large trees near at hand. The shade is \cm injurious, causing the plants of the hedge to grow glen, der end elongated, instead of with the dense habit which it is desirable for a plant to maintain, and which requires sunlight to develope. Tnc hedge will also suffer in health and vigor, from having its nourishment taken up by tho marauding roots of the adjacent trees. This can be par tially prevented by a deep trench between the hedge and forest, and keeping it open—cutting off all roots that at tempt a passage. If you could cut down a space of, say 110 or 40 feet, to admit the sun to your hedge, it would bo possible to make a good one.— Ed. So. Cult. G ARDtiMNG FOlt WOOTEN. There is nothing better for wives and daughters, physi cally, than to have the care of a garden—a flower pot, if nothing more. What is pleasanter than to spend a por tion of every passing day in working among plants, and watching the growth of shrubs, and trees, and plants, and to observe the opening of flowers from week to week as the season advances? Then how much it adds to the en joyment, to know that your own hands have planted and tilled them, and have pruned and trained them—this is a pleasure that requires neither great riches nor profound knowledge. The humble cottage of the laboring poor, not less than their grounds, may be adorned with pet plants, which in due time, will become redolent of rich perfume, not less than radiant with beauty ; thus ministering to the love of the beautiful in nature. The wife or daughter that loves home, and would seek to make it the best place for husband and brother,is willing to forego some goss’pping morning calls, for the sake of having leisure for the cultiva tion of plants, and shrubs, and flowers. The good house-wife is early among her plants and flowers, as is the hut-band at his place of business. They are both utilitarians ; the one it may be in the abstract, and the other in the concrete, each as essential to the enjoyment of the other, as are the real and the iacal In human life. The lowest utilitarian ism would labor only for the meat that perishes. Those of higher and more noble views, would labor with no less as siduity for the substantial things ot life, but would in ad dition seek also those things which elevate and refine the mind and exalt the soul. The advantages winch women personally derives from stirring the soii and snuffing the morning air, are freshness and beauty of cheeek, and brightness of eye, cheerfulness of temper, vigor of mind, and purity of heart. Consequently, she is more cheerful and lovely as a daughter, more dignified and womanly as a sister, and more attractive at and confiding and as a wife; hence the fruits and products of garden culture, as they relate to woman, when viewed objectively, are fait small, relatively, as compared with the benefits secured in regard to herself as the centre of social refinement and enjoyment, amid such a world as ours. A husband who revolves round such a centre, cannot but be a good neighbor,a useful citizen, a kind father, a loving and confiding companion. Do not, thy;, mothers and sisters, the latter wives in prospect, neglect the garden. 115