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STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



FOE COMMERCIAL PLANTATIONS. 



Cherry, Versaillaise, or Fay will, either of them, yield good returns of 

 large size, attractive looking fruit, with jDossibly slight, undetermined 

 difPerences of yield. 



As in the case of home plantations, the Victoria, on account of its com- 

 parative exemption from the depredations of the borer, will be found more 

 profitable in infested localities. 



Crandall, a recent novelty, has been represented to be a hybrid between 

 the native (aiireum) and the Cherry currant (riihrum), but neither the 

 foliage, bloom, nor fruit affords the slightest indication of such hybridiza- 

 tion. Among the plants thus disseminated, wide difPerences exist in habit 

 of growth, as well as in size, quality, and quantity of fruit, the cause of 

 which is charged to be that the plants disseminated are the product of a 

 batch of seedlings, and not, as was at first claimed, of a single selected 

 plant. Its value, as a useful fruit, is yet undetermined. 



GOOSEBERRIES. Ribes. 



The gooseberry, like the currant, is a favorite with the currant worm 

 {Nematus ventricosus, King), which, probably owing to the repeated 

 washing of the foliage by rains, has proved unusually persistent and 

 troublesome this season. 



The jpremature loss of foliage, which i^roves so common a malady with 

 the gooseberry, occurred at a later date than usual this season, apparently 

 owing to the late occurrence of hot, dry weather; hence the injury from 

 this cause has proved less serious than usual. 



For several years past, the Houghton, here, has been attacked by a 

 malady which crumbles the young foliage at the tips of the young shoots, 

 effectually stopping their growth. This appears to be caused by the 

 attacks of a minute aphis. The only remedy so far attempted has been a 

 promjDt and persistent cutting away and trimming of the tips thus affected, 

 a remedy, so far, apparently effective for the time, although it has not 

 prevented the reappearance of the malady, the following year. 



The following is a list of the species and varieties of this fruit -so far 

 planted and growing upon the premises. 



GOOSEBERRIES, 



