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the yellows is rapidly on the increase and orcharding is mostly on 

 the decrease. The only remedy so far known is eradication of the 

 tree as soon as the disease is seen. The disease is constitu- 

 tional, and even when we have found the cause it will probably 

 remain incurable. Yet there is no reason for undue alarm in the 

 matter, because the experience of the Michigan growers has proved 

 conclusively that radical measures will keep the disease in check 

 or almost eliminate it from any country. The New York law is 

 essentially the same as the Michigan law, and if it is rigidly en- 

 forced by healthy public sentiment, there is no reason why peach 

 culture should not nourish. Otherwise, sooner or later our peach 

 industry must perish. 



THE PAPER FEOWER POT. 



F. W. Bird & Son, East Walpole, Mass., have sent us for trial 

 an assortment of paper flower pots. These are made chief!}' for 

 the shipping trade, to save breakage, and lessen transportation 

 charges. Two months ago we potted off a number of conserva- 

 tory plants in some of these pots, and then plunged them in sphag- 

 num moss, alongside earthen pots. The moss has been kept wet, 

 yet the pots are still in good condition, and the plants are grow- 

 ing well. A number of plants were transferred to paper pots, 

 and were expressed to Professor C. S. Crandall, Fort Collins, Col. 

 The plants were ten days on the road. Professor Crandall wrote : 

 "The pots were in good condition, and apparently capable of 

 standing even a longer journey. None of them came apart, and 

 unless moisture were used in excess, I see no reason why they 

 would not answer admirably for shipping any distance. ' ' 



The paper pot appears to be a good thing, both in which to 

 ship plants, and in which to grow rapidly growing stock for sale. 



EXPERIENCES IN CROSSING CUCURBITS. 



The limits and results of crossing among cucurbitaceous plants 

 — pumpkins, squashes, melons, cucumbers — are little understood. 

 The common notions are exceedingly vague. It is nearly every- 

 where supposed that all the species intermingle indiscriminately, 

 and any statement to the contrary is likely to meet with incredu- 

 lity. Yet there is reason to believe that many of the com- 



