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plete this removal of infectious material can be made, the safer will be the 

 succeeding crop. During the growing season the fungus produces in- 

 numerable spores and spreads its infection very quickly. For this 

 reason, all rotting peaches should be removed from the trees and buried 

 or burned, as soon as discovered. This can be done during the pick- 

 ing season without much additional expense ; but it may frequently be 

 necessary to do it before the fruit is ripe, if the grower would save any 

 portion of it in a marketable condition. Finally, not a single rotted 

 fruit should be allowed to winter over. All must be destroyed. 



If fruit growers would unite and follow this method systematically 

 for a series of years, the losses from peach rot would be reduced to in- 

 considerable proportions. These remarks apply also to the rot of 

 plums and cherries' which is caused by the same fungus, known as Mon* 

 ilia fructigena. 



BLACK KNOT. 



Black Knot on the plum may be destroyed with a mixture of lin- 

 seed oil, turpentine and kerosene. The kerosene must be used with 

 care, for if allowed to spread over the branch it will destroy it. Lin- 

 seed oil alone, if applied two or three times, answers the same purpose, 

 but the turpentine and kerosene make it prompt and efficient. The time 

 is when the knot begins to make its appearance early in summer and 

 afterward. — Prof. Maynard before the Maine State Pomological Society. 



COKELESS APPLES. 

 Horticulturists are now endeavoring to breed out the trouble- 

 some core from apples. We quote from the Xew York Tribune : " Two 

 cases lately put on record of seedless sorts of apple— one of them 

 represented as a large and good winter variety— come directly in class 

 with Professor Claypole's proposition to breed out the troublesome 

 core from the best of our fruits. It is worthy of attention, especially 

 as the trees are much more exhausted by the production of seeds than 

 by that of their development, and usnally more seeds, less eatable 

 pulp and the harsher its quality." 



THE FARMER'S ORCHARD. 

 In many cases it is not what it should be, especially if there is 

 no ready market for the fruit at hand. The difficulty is chietly due 



