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vision of Prof. Stinson of the Experimental Station. He left one 

 plat unsprayed, and this gave up only about one-half as many bar- 

 reling apples as the same number of affected tre^s that were sprayed. 



As we have been asked so often for our opinion of trap lanterns for 

 destroying injurious insects in orchards, perhaps in justice to everybody 

 concerned we should give our observation along this line. While wc 

 desire to see every good thing succeed and do not want to do any one an 

 injustice, we are frank to say that the trap lanterns have been failures 

 this year. Orchards that were well lighted with them, bore fruit as badly 

 stung and as wormy as those that had no attention in this direction, cither 

 by use of lantern or spray. 



We trust that we may profit by the season's lessons, and that our 

 already progressive horticulture in Missouri will take on greater 

 energy. — Western Fruit Grower. 



THE APPLE HABIT. 



"Chicago is the greatest apple market in the world. More kinds of 

 apples, red, green, yellow, mottled, sweet, and sour, are displayed on 

 South Water street than the apple eater among our fathers ever dreamed 

 of. But some one has said recently that we ship more apples than we 

 eat and the decided preference of our people for red apples and big ones, 

 indicates that we prize the fruit more for its appearance than for its 

 taste and texture. 



"Some of the New York newspapers have gone so far as to intimate 

 that we treat apples very much as we treat flowers — put them on our 

 tables, pile them up on our fruit stands, choosing colors and sizes simply 

 to make a show — and that, therefore, we miss the great opportunity of 

 being benefited as were our New England and New York ancestors by 

 the eating of apples in season and out. 



"An old Scandinavian tradition represents the apple as the food of 

 the gods. The story was to the effect that when they felt themselves 

 growing old and feeble and infirm, the gods resorted to the apple for re- 

 newing their powers of mind and body. Trained in such a tradition the 

 Scandinavians like a good apple when they see it, and they like it better 

 when they taste it. 



"We have among us a fair sprinkling of New England people. They 

 come to us with traditions not so old as those of the Scandinavians, but 

 stronger in promoting attachment to the apple. There are among us, 

 too, thousand of New Yorkers, Pennsylvania, Buckeyes and Hoo- 



