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I notii'o also an inquiry tr<Hn a sulis(iil)i'r Iktc, 

 about the IliLjhland Hardy Raspbt'iry, askinc: 

 whcthor it is an old berry with a new name. A 

 gentleman near here, who cultivates the High- 

 land Hardy and Kirtland. declares that there is 

 no dilV'n'enee be(we(Mi them. Ashe i)rocured his 

 plants of HiLrhland Hardy from Hov. K. P. Hoe, 

 on the Hudson, I presume they are trenuino. I 

 have not seen this <j;entlemairs plantation, l)ut 

 saw the Hi<:ihla"d Hardy in fruit last summer, 

 and compared it with the Kirtland, and think 

 there is a dirterenee. The large berries of the 

 Highland Tlardy are somewhatconical, while the 

 Ivirtland is always round. It has been claimed, 

 too. that the Highland Hardy is identical with 

 the Elm City. I have never seen the Elm C'ity, 

 but as "William Pariy, of Cinnaminson, X. J., 

 has cultivated all three without discovering their 

 identity, I am inclined to think they are distinct. 

 One fi'uit grower here has ploughed up his High- 

 land Hardy plantation after three years' expe- 

 rience with them. He said that he could not 

 make them produce vigorous canes. I presume 

 the foliage failed during summer. There »is one 

 thing remarkable in connection with this berr}-, 

 and that is that the party who could furnish evi- 

 dence of its producing a thousand dollars per 

 acre, had plants for sale at S4 per thousand, a 

 lower price than any berry plants — old or new — 

 are ottered. 



AILANTHUS AND ROSE BUGS. 



in Mi;--. K. I'.. II.. w I i.MiNc; r(»N, l>kl. 



Hev. W. H. W., of Heading, Mass., comi)lains 

 that the crop of grapes, " in some cases at least, 

 are sadly diminished by the unprecedented num- 

 ber of ro«e-l)ugs.'" Now that gives me an 

 ()])portunity once more to speak a word for the 

 .Vilanthus. Some years ago in jjassing under an 

 A i Ian thus, I observed a great munber of rose- 

 l)ug.>i under it. Some apparently dead, others 

 helpless and not able to fl)% while many were 

 trying to creep up the body of the tree and sur- 

 rounding shrubbery. I mentioned it to my 

 husbiuul (who was an invalid), and he said he 

 had observed it before, that he thought the 

 (lowers of the tree had attracted and then sickened 

 them; and that as a proof that instinct does not 

 always guard from mistakes, he had observed 

 that the young robins would alight on the Alder 

 J}uckthorn (Frangula Caroliniana) and eat the 

 berries until they were very sick. By-the-by. 

 that same Frangula was a verj'^ handsome tree, 

 twelve or fifteen feet high, with beautiful glossy 

 foliage, and berries first turning red and then a 

 shining black. It was thought worthy of being 

 photographed. But again, the Ailanthus— has any- 

 one observed a diminition of rose-bugs in its 

 neig])borhood ? We had very few in after years. 

 Perhaps they come periodically. 



LIME FOR APPLE ORCHARDS 



BY MR. J. BLACKAVELL, TITUSVILLE, X. .J. 



We have used lime on our apple orchai'ds for 

 a number of years, and consider it beneficial in 

 moderate quantities, say twenty bushels to the 

 acre. We have an oki orchard that has borne 

 heav}' crops for several years, that we have 

 limed vvth good results. 



THE CHENANGO STRAWBERRY APPLE. 



BY MK. .T. BLACKAVELL, TITUSVILLP:. X. T. 



I have fruited this apple on two trees, one a 

 seedling tree grafted at the crown with the 

 Chenengo, the other top grafted on a young tree. 

 Both have borne three or four years. Fruit of 

 good size. Tree an early and profuse bearer. 

 Fruit rots before ripening, and must be gathered 

 before it colors, as it specks before it ripens. 

 Xot worth cultivating where there are so many 

 better apples. 



PEAR CULTURE. 



BY A. C. l-OWLEI!, PAXIIANDLE, W. VA. 



I will now fulfill my promise. My pear trees 

 are looking finely, have lost but tlu"ee out of 

 about two thousand by blight, while trees gener- 

 ally in this section sufiered greatly. I think I 

 have hit upon a preventative for blight. It is this: 

 In June I wash my trees with a wash made 

 of one pmt of soft soap to one gallon of water, or 

 take good strong lye and wash the trunks of the 

 trees and larger branches. Applying this to the 

 trees keeps them in good healthy condition. My 

 trees are six 3^ears old, and have been mulched 

 for two years and cut back, but no cultivation. 

 I have been using this wash for three years, and 

 have lost but very few trees Avhile before using. 

 I lost near two hundred in one season. 



[Accumulating facts tend to show that the 

 spores of the Fire Blight fungus develop from 

 the outside, and give increasing weight to the 

 judgment of those who believe that washes 

 will destroy these spores. — Er>. G. M.] 



