The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . e which has infused morelife and hope into vineyard culture in the West than any half score of high-priced andpretentious vines that swell the list of modern nurserymen. I, Currants and gooseberries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, etc., all did amazinglywell the past season, as their crops were gathered before the dry weather came. Here, in Kentucky, a newer life of fruits and fruit growing has possessed our dissemination of new and rare plants, trees, flowers, etc., together with a wider dis-semination of such
The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . e which has infused morelife and hope into vineyard culture in the West than any half score of high-priced andpretentious vines that swell the list of modern nurserymen. I, Currants and gooseberries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, etc., all did amazinglywell the past season, as their crops were gathered before the dry weather came. Here, in Kentucky, a newer life of fruits and fruit growing has possessed our dissemination of new and rare plants, trees, flowers, etc., together with a wider dis-semination of such choice, practical magazines as the Horticulturist, have inspired usall with a fresher love for all that is useful and beautiful; and we hope to learn that yourcharming Monthly has found its way to many a pleasant Old Kentucky Home, in 1870,where it never went before; and, if so, we feel assured that everywhere it may go, thathousehold will be better, and wiser, and purer for its coming, Stanford, Ky, ! \i ^^-=i^s^=^ The So7^er. 49 Design for a Summer THE above design for an ornamented summer house, which appeared lately in SloaiisArchitectural Review, will be found very useful in the grounds of some of our finesuburban residences. It is to be constructed of wood neatly carved and put together in a workmanlike floor may be of ornamented tiles, or inlaid with vari-colored whole should be stained and varnished, not painted. The Borer. EDITOR Horticulturist : Having been an amateur culturist of fruits for a dozenyears, and having long since learned in the school of experience and observation that eternal vigilance was the price of success therein, I herewith give you my observationrelative to the peach borer. It will not be necessary for me to tell your intelligent readersthat this is a destructive worm which infests fruit trees—especially the peach—under thebark, just at the ground, and always leaves visible evidence of his noxious presence by thee
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