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in the other room. If you go on one side you think it is a whale, 

 but on this side it is a little fish about an inch long. Everybody 

 ought to know, if they open the jars, it would be impossible to be 

 deceived. I knew one man who asked if he might open the jar. 



* l Oh, no, it would spoil the fruit." "Well," he said, " by , I 



will open it," and he took his jack-knife and knocked the top right 

 off, and there it was, a common kind of fruit magnified two, or 

 three, or four times. We want to know what we want, and when 

 it comes, buy it. 



Mr. Kellogg — It is a good thing for brother nurserymen to pitch 

 into each other, but this remark of Mr. Phillips, I do not know 

 where he got it. I never had an order for an Alaska crab except 

 from a man in Illinois, and I never saw one except in the tree 

 journals; never sent out a tree labeled that, and never furnished 

 another in its place, except to this man from Illinois, who took 

 some Briar Sweet when he could not find the Alaska, crab, and 

 put it into the bill without any label. He took tbe trees from my 

 nursery, and paid me about ten cents a tree, and he filled his bill out 

 without my knowing anything about the orders. 



BLIGHT. 



By B. F. ADAMS, Madisox. 



It is perhaps unwise to write on a subject I do not fully under- 

 stand, but this task is cheerfully undertaken, with a hope that the 

 members of this society may have some texts to explain, and 

 theories to verify or explode in relation to blight. These are not 

 original with me, being mainly a compilation of theories as to its 

 cause, and remedies prescribed by those who claim to have more 

 or less thoroughly investigated the subject. The writers are num- 

 erous; the theories of the cause various, and the remedies legion. 

 In ransacking some twenty volumes of horticultural and agricultural 

 periodicals, covering as many years, I have not noted all who have 

 written on this subject, but have discovered that they are widely 

 scattered over our country, and uniformly agree only on one or two 

 points, principally that blight is very destructive to fruit trees, es- 

 pecially the pear. The prime causes are asserted to be atmospheric 



