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The oiiciny of the plum can be routod without the oíd and laborious proeess of jafrïng the trees, and gatheriug the iusecta apon sheets. The followiug remedy has been sevcral years before the public, and has the recoramendation of 3Ir. Cumining.s, and some of our best porno logists. The writer has usod it with sucoess, and now f'eels as sure of the plum erop as of poars. To one pouDd of whale oil soap, add four ounces of the flowers ofsulphnr. Mix the niass thoroughly with x spatula or kuife, and dissolve in about twelve gallons of water, stirring it we!l. To onc half peck of quick lime, add four gallons of water and stir well togothcr. When fully settled, pour off the transparent linie water, and add it to the soap mixture. Add to the same, also, four gallons of tolerably strong tobáceo water. Apply the mixture when thus iucorporated, with a garden syringe, to your plum or other fruit trees, so that the foliage shall be well dreoched. If no r;iins suececd for three weeks, one application will be sufRcieut. It sbxmld be repeated alter raitjs until tbe stons is liardcued. When the plum is about the size of a pea is the best time to apply it, bufc it is effectual upon all plums uot yet stung at any stage of their growtb, This lnixture is good for cherries, and all fruits troubled with iusects. - American Agricullurui '.