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warn), ]9 (Merrimac), 28 (Requa), 39 (A.tneaia), 41 (Essex), 43 (Barry), 44 

 (Herbert), 53 (Salem). All his work was done in a little garden. Hi» 

 first hybrids fruited in 1856, and long afterward they were designated 

 by number. James H. Ricketts, of Newburg, N. Y., beginning later, 

 continued his work of crossing for 20 years. He produced many 

 wonderful varieties, which time has shown are not adapted to general 

 culture. 



The great expectations entertained for years that these grapes, or 

 some of ^hem, would suit almost any locality, have been disappointed^ 

 With no great care of the vines, with a soil of but ordinary richness, 

 Mr. Eicketts year after year raised his seedlings and exhibited them at 

 many fairs, where they scarcely ever failed to carry off the first pre- 

 mium. But other people have never been able to do what Mr. Ricketts 

 has done, and few of his grapes have more than a local reputation. 

 The Gaertner is one of the showiest of Rogers' collection. The color- 

 is a light red, and the berries translucent almost to transparency.' In 

 many places it thrives, the vine being strong and productive ; in other 

 places the berry rots and is worthless. 



Insect Enemies — The worst 11 apple pests are: 1. Apple-root 

 louse; 2, Round-headed borer; 3, Flat-headed borer; 4, [Oyster-shell 

 bark louse; 5, Spring canker-worm; 6, Lesser apple-leaf folder ; 7, Leaf 

 crumpler; 8, Leaf skeletonizer; 9, Apple-leaf hopper; 10, Apple-tree 

 aphis (all of which are conspicuously injurious to young orchard trees 

 and nursery stock); 11, Codling moth, which injures the fruit. 12, 

 Pear-tree slug is the worst pear pest; 13, Plum gouger, and 14, Plum 

 Curculio, the worst plum insects ; 15, Peach-tree borer, the worst peach 

 insect; 16, G-rape phylloxera: 17, Grape-vine leaf-hopper; 18, Grape 

 vine flea-beetle, and 19, Grape berry-moth, the worst grape insects ; 20, 

 Imported currant worm, the worst currant pest. And of the straw* 

 berry: 21, White grubs; 22, Crown borer; 23, Root worms (affecting 

 the roots), and 24, Leaf-roller, and 25, Saw-fly (the foliage), the worst 

 insects. Thinks fruitgrowers as a rule will accomplish most by looking 

 at insect depredations from a horticultural rather than entomological 

 standpoint, by studying, first, the injury; then, if need be, the insect; 

 and then the remedy, instead of the insect first, as entomologists. — 

 Prof. S. A. Forbes, Champaign, in Prairie Farmer. 



Secret of Success. — A very well-known horticulturist, when 

 asked what was the secret of success in his business, said: "Keep 

 the ground stirred." There is more in this than there would have been. 



