secretary's budget. 379* 



of the senses. In the green pastures and beside the still waters He 

 restoreth my souL — Dr. F. N. Zabriskie in Christian Intelligencer. 



FUNGI. 



Dr. Bessy, of Nebraska, in discussing '^ungi at the American Pomo- 

 logical Society, said the difference between the largest and the small- 

 est trees was not so great comparatively as that between varieties of 

 fungi. There are three classes of fungi: one lives only on dead or de- 

 caying matter; one only on living tissues, and the third feeds on both 

 dead and living tissues; and to the latter class all the injurious fungi 

 belong. Bacteria belong to the latter class, and are so small that over 

 nineteen thousand millions could exist in a square inch under the bark. 

 The mildews, rust on leaves and grain, blight, fruit rots, and black 

 knot in trees are all the results of fungi. The attacks of fungi call for 

 the surgeon, and not for the chemist. Kemoval of the growing fungi is 

 a removal of the disease. This teaches us to keep close watch of the 

 fruit trees, and remove all diseased branches, burning tbem as soon as 

 seen. — ^Vestern Rural. 



EXAMPLE AND INFLUENCE. 



Many years ago a young man moved into a neighborhood where 

 but liltle fruit was raised, and started a moderate-sized nursery. The 

 farmers generally had apple orchards, which contained some "grafted 

 fruit," and much more " nateral " fruit. They had some " black cher- 

 ries" and a few " red cherries.'' None had ever seen garden strawber- 

 ries, and when they looked on the nurseryman's bed of the Hovey 

 near the time of its first introduction, fertilized with a row of Large 

 Early Scarlet, they were filled with admiration and wonder. They 

 were eager to obtain some of the same, and the nurseryman, wishing 

 to introduce them among his neighbors, off"ered the plants on the con- 

 dition that if good care was taken of them, and they grew, they should 

 cost nothing; but if they died they should be paid for. But so great 

 was the prevailing feeling of neglect in taking care of fruit, that only 

 one (a young woman) would take them on the prescribed condition. 

 Time passed on — the nursery grew — specimen trees bore many kinds 

 of fine fruit — many trees were bought and planted — enterprising or- 

 chardists made money from their improved plantations — and in the 

 course of fifteen years or more that neighborhood became famous as a> 

 fruit-producing region. 



