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of the nation. There may have been, in some instances, political 

 ambitions to be promoted by their outlays for flowers, but we wil 

 hope that these cases have been rare. 



Use, then, the flowers for inspiration in your mass-meetings, in 

 your elections, and, other things being equal vote for the men whose 

 characters have become ennobled in part, at least, by a love of 

 flowers. — Mrs. Fannie A. Deane, before Mass. Hort. Soc'y. 



HOW TO BUY NURSERY STOCK. 



A speaker before the Michigan Horticultural Societ}^ recently gave 

 the following caution : 



"Do not buy of an agent who has some extraordinary' new fruit, 

 curculio proof, iron clad, and of wonderful size and extra quality, 

 for which, on account of these superior qualities, he is obliged to 

 charge five or six prices." 



He also advised against buying of a nurseryman for the reason 

 that he offers a little under the price of most others, but of whose 

 standing you are ignorant. Of small fruits he advised to buy as 

 near home as practicable. 



SPRAYING FOR THE PLUM CURCULIO. 



Experiments conducted at the Ohio Agricultural Experiment 

 Station for the purpose of determining the effect of spraying the 

 trees with London purple seem to indicate that it may prove an 

 efficient remedy for the curculio. A half acre of bearing cherry 

 trees was set aside for the purpose, and a part of it was treated 

 while the rest was left as a check. The London purple was applied 

 just after the fruit forms in a water spray, mixed in the pr portion 

 of one-half pound to fifty gallons of water. An examination of the 

 fruit showed that three applications saved 75.8 per cent, of the fruit 

 liable to injury from the curculio ; that four applications saved a 

 very much larger per cent, of the fruit. Two quarts of the ripe 

 cherries from each lot were chemically examined and no trace of the 

 poison could be found upon any of them. 



