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among strawberries the following are special favorites witb several 

 cultivators: Miner's Prolific, Crescent, Sharpless, Wilson, Cumber- 

 land and Downing; while Bid well, Mount Vernon and Kentucky stand 

 high with a few. Among the raspberries, Gregg, Souhegan, Cuthbert 

 and Shaffer are especially commended for their value. Other and 

 newer sorts of high promise have received as yet a limited trial. 



— Country Gentleman. 



BLACKBERRY RUST. 



A. H. Kiehl, who has had abundant experience with the orange 

 blackberry rust, writes to Colman''s Rural World., corroborating the 

 views which we have expressed on lormer occasions, and which are 

 held by others, that when rust gets into a plantation the only remedy 

 -IS to dig up and burn the plants as soon as the disease shows itself, and 

 if the patch is badly affected the best thing is to mow off and plow 

 up, and plant with other crops for two or three years, planting the new 

 patch in an entirely new place. The spores of this minute fungus are 

 blown by the winds and spread, and Mr. Kiehl has found that neither 

 road dust, lime, salt nor sulphur has the least effect. 



CENTENNIAL BLACKCAP. 



Samuel Miller, of Missouri, states in the same journal, that he re- 

 gards the Centennial as ''• about the most valuable blackcap raspberry 

 he has tried." It has a conical berry with'a shining black collar, and 

 Mr. Miller says there is a spurious sort which sprang up in the Cen- 

 tennial patch which has induced some cultivators to think the true 

 varietv worthless. 



SCIENTIFIC. 



THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDENS. 



The eminently public spirited citizen of St. Louis, Mr. Henry 

 Shaw, who proposes to give his celebrated Gardens to the city on his 

 decease, for the enjoyment and instruction of the people forever, has 

 not waited for the event of his departure— which all hope may be long 

 postponed— to inaugurate his generous gift. He has already founded 



