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3. Ammoniacal solution of carbonate of copper is considered best by some, 

 and averages a high second best. The formula is five ounces of copper dissolvect 

 in three pints strong ammonia, diluted with 45 gallons water. 



Neutral Bordeaux mixture is the best fungicide for peach-rot. The formula is 

 four pounds blue vitriol dissolved in hot water, cooled by adding six to eight gal- 

 lons cold water. Milk of lime added until red litmus paper just begins to turn 

 blue. Dilute with water to 25 gallons. 



5. Early applications are essential. 



6. In all cases, whether for rot or leaf disease, spraying results in increased 

 healthfulness of foliage and greater vigor of tree. 



7. The cost is, in all cases, more than met by increased marketable product, 



8. Peach foliage is more or leas injured by all fungicides. 



There now remains but one phase of the general subject — the treatment of 

 diseases of garden vegetables. The work done on vegetables has been set forth 

 in bulletins by the following-named stations, among others : Celery diseases, bean 

 diseases, potato scab and blight, Geneva, N. Y.; tomato blight, Mississippi ; sugar 

 beet diseases, Iowa; potato scab and blight, Rhode Island; oedemiaof tomato, 

 onion mould, Cornell, N. Y .; diseases of celery, tomato, sweet potato, egg-plant, 

 bean and many ornamental plants. New Jersey. On all these subjects details of 

 growth and reproduction, with experiments in fungicides, are given. Much effec- 

 tive work has been done in investigating the fungus enemies of cereal crops, but 

 as these are not horticultural products, no mention of them will be made. 



When it is recalled that the treatment of vegetable diseases is only one of sev- 

 eral important lines of work that are being carried on by the botanists and horti- 

 culturists of the stations, it will be seen that large efforts are being made to aid the 

 fruitgrower to a more profitable return for his labor. C. A. Kkffer. 



CULTURE IN THE HOME. 



MRS. JULIA M'NAIR WRIGHT. , 



Ladies and Gentlemen— My theme is "Culture in the Home." In discussing 

 any question before an audience such as this, certain fundamental propositions may 

 be taken as granted. Your membership in this Society, your presence here, testify 

 your acceptance of and interest in some given facts. It is not necessary to prove 

 to you that the home is the mould wherein are, to a large extent, cast the manners 

 and character of the individual— that it is the norm of the State. It is not neces- 

 sary to.tell you that by 'a home" more is meant than four walla, a floor, a roof, and 

 varied arrangements of the enclosed space ; that of the home there is a subjective 

 as well as an objective point of view ; that it is not merely the center of physical 

 and financial development, but also of moral and mental development. The home 

 is not merely a shelter from burning suns, a refuge from beating storms, but it is 

 the heart's refuge in disaster, its shelter from the wild sweep of temptation. 

 When Napoleon embraced large philosophies in one sentence, saying that the chief 

 need of France was mothers, he comprehended in that word "mothers" as admin- 

 istering homes, and there rearing worthy citizens. 



When we build a house in which to live, the primary considerations are, or 

 should be, healthfulness, convenient arrangement, beauty. When we lay down 

 the laws for the lile conducted in that house, we will, I think, find them falling 

 into the same or similar lines, as the development of a strong physique, the ufeful 

 direction of energies, and the training of the mind, or that all round education 



