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Clapp. The former is clearly a cross of Flemish Beauty and Bartiett, 

 having fruit resembling Bartlett, and brownish-purple shoots like those 

 of Flemish Beauty. 



It may be added that few of those who have produced choice new 

 varieties of fruit have ever made any money by it. It has been with 

 them generally a labor of love, and a disposition to benefit society ; 

 more satisfactory — may it not be said, more praiseworthy"? — than the 

 accumulation of wealth. And yet there is encouragement even of a 

 pecuniary character. He who originates a choice fruit is a public bene- 

 factor, and " the laborer is worthy of his hire." There is reason in all 

 things, and if the matter is properly presented, fruit-growers will not 

 object to paying an extra price for a tree of a fine new variety, when it 

 is considered how many thousand have been raised and tested and dis- 

 carded before the one valuable variety was obtained. — National Stock- 

 man and Farmer. 



EXTERMINATING APPLE MAGGOTS. 



Prof. F. L. Harvey, of the Maine Agricultural Experiment station, 

 has spent nearly two years investigating the habits of the apple mag- 

 gots, and in a Bulletin just issued to the Station he gives much valua- 

 ble information on the best means of their extermination. We extract 

 the following : 



PREVENTIVE MEASURES. 



1. Keep the orchards in grass, and in the autumn or spring burn 

 under the trees to destroy the pup?e that are in the grass roots. 



2. If the orchard is in cultivation, the conditions are favorable 

 for the maggots to go into the ground, but they never go deeper than 

 an inch, and deep spading or plowing in the spring will destroy them. 



3. Orchards on sandy soil and in sheltered places with a southern 

 exposure are worst affected. In planting orchards such conditions 

 had better be avoided if possible. 



4. Prevent by legal enactment the importation of foreign fruit 

 from localities known to be infested. The pest was undoubtedly intro- 

 duced into Maine by the importation of foreign apples, and each year 

 there is a new invoice. No matter what methods are adopted, they will 

 prove futile if each year in all the towns of the State maggots by the 

 hundreds are thrown upon the ground in worthless and infested foreign 

 fruit. 



