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THE GARDENER'S MON'IULY 



S^August, 



SCRAPS AND OriiR/JiS. 



Boaver's Early Peach.— M. & M., Frede- 

 rick City, Md., under date of Jul}' 1st, send us 

 the following noti- : " We send you to-<lay 

 another specimen of Bower's early peach, but 

 as it is dead ripe and bruised in places so that 

 the juice is oozing from it, we fear that it will 

 be rotten before it reaches you. We would have 

 sent it last week, but the tree is twelve miles 

 from here, and we had no idea it was ripe so 

 soon ; it had but very few on it this season, there 

 being a general failure of the crop in this sec- 

 tion. The one we send measures 9i inches 

 around, weighs 7 ounces, and was ripe on the 

 IZGth of June, all of which leads us to believe 

 that it is as early as the earliest, and as to the 

 size and quality, as good as the best. AVe should 

 have said that one side is partly eaten by the 

 birds, which will probably hasten its decay." 



[It gives us pleasure to say, that the specimen 

 sent, agrees with all that the writers say of it. 

 It is a great pleasure to see so large a size with 

 so early a fruit. The flavor w^as exquisite, so far 

 as it is possible to judge from a single specimen 

 sent from a distant locality we should say 

 this was a long way in advance of our best early 

 kind.— Ed. G. M.] 



AVatering Strawberries.— K. J. B,. Sharp- 

 less, Catawissa, writes : "The late wet spell has 

 demonstrated to my satisfaction that straw- 

 berries are benefited by frequent rains, while in 

 fruit. Now as I propose to set a bed of them 

 within one hundred feet of a well, and could 

 attach a hose to the pump, and syringe them 

 •with cold water from the well in a dry time, 

 would wish to know whether it would be bene- 

 ficial or not." 



[We believe it would.— Ed. G. M.] 



QuixcE Disease.— E. G., No. 35 Wall street, 

 Trenton, N. J., writes : " If you please give me 

 some information about a quince tree which I 

 have. It seems as if there is a fly or some kind of 

 insect stings the limb in the night, then, the next 

 day, it withers up and dies. I cannot see any- 

 thing on the foliage or limb. The soil is in 

 good condition. If there is any remedy for it, 

 please let me know." 



[This is probably the ordinary quince blight ; 

 but beyond the probability that it is the work 

 of a minute fungus allied to the fire-blight in 

 the pear, nothing is known. — Ed. G. M.] 



The Peach Crop of Milton, Kentucky. — 

 At the Peach Growers' Meeting, at Milton, 



Kentucky, it was reported that the peach crop 

 this year in that section would only be one-half 

 of what it has been in other years. 



liAnoR AND Wages in Kentucky. — The 

 fruit growers of Kentucky, will pay their men 

 TT) cents per day this season, for pi«king fruit. 



KiNNAMAN's Seedling Peach.— I). S. M., 

 Bridgeville, Del., writes : " I sent you by mail 

 two peaches, a new Delaware seedling. We 

 call it Kinnaman's Seedling, originated with L. 

 Kinnaman, of Sussex county, Del. A tree now 

 eight years old, healthy tree. Other years the 

 peaches were eight inches around, but it has been 

 so cool. Peaches small ; I think it will prove 

 somewhat earlier than Amsden or Alexandra." 



[There is so much resemblance in all these 

 small early peaches, that all we can fairly say 

 of it is that it is a sub-cling and as good as other 

 popular candidates for peach favors. Its exact 

 value will depend on careful observations with 

 other rivals in the field. — Ed. G. M.] 



Band for Codling Worms.— At the late 

 Nursei'ymen's Convention, at Bochester, belts 

 for placing around apple trees were exhibited 

 with cotton fastenings on the interior surface, 

 soaked in some poison, probably Quassia, by 

 which the eggs are destroyed in the cotton with- 

 out the necessity of taking oft" the bands and de- 

 stroying the eggs. .,We have since received the 

 following from a New York coi-respondent . 

 " Are you favorable towards the party who 

 claims a patent right on the mode of taking the 

 apple worm, such as shown at the late Conven- 

 tion. I think, myself, if he has procurred a pat- 

 ent it is simply an outrage." 



We are not quite sure we take in our corres- 

 pondent's meaning. We have a great admira- 

 tion for the man who, when he discovers a valu- 

 able fact in horticulture, gives it freely to all for 

 the public benefit. But if one chooses to make 

 a profit for himself by the exclusive use of his 

 discovery, it seems a very natural thing as the 

 world goes. It seems that the saving of the 

 labor and trouble of changing the bands is a novel 

 and valuable discovery. It is certainiy new to us. 



Dyehouse Cherry.- Mr. B. J. Black, Fair- 

 field Covmty, Ohio, writes: "I, saw a few 

 specimens of Dyehouse, the culinary cherry 

 recently brought to notice, and which for 

 many years has been giving such excellent satis- 

 faction in central Kentucky. After fruiting it 

 for several years, I may say that I am very 

 much pleased with it. Not only is the quality 



