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olil. Iidtli in tree :\iul fruit, would conic l)cf()rc lis 

 iMulcr :i measure ofnu'tit — better tlian any mere 

 cndorsi'mcnt. Such a regimen would save the 

 iivoraire planter a world of lroul)le. No mon> 

 wasti'd years ot i)atient waitiusj: would eml in 

 re<raftini: tlu; tickle, crackinij, hli-:htinii thiuiis. 



1 need not canvass the Fall and Winter pears ' 

 put forward for our iilantiuir. Thev have no 

 exemption from the fniilties of their kind. Lots 

 of them aie "uncertain, coy and hard to 

 please'' into a luscious ripeness. Kven after 

 careful cuddling and watching, lino, grown speci- : 

 mens often woefully dash our hopes. The 

 leaves hlight, and the fruit never ^cts ()\('r (he 

 hereavement; or if the season is too wet or too 

 short, a whole crop of some kind is fit only for 

 the stew pan or the pigs. 



But we want even more than rules — some • 

 choicely located Poniological Garden, where all j 

 fruits may he tested over broad acres. Xo ordi- ' 

 nary planter can afford the time, even if he has \ 

 the facilities, to test every kind for which high ; 

 qualities are claimed. I despair of such a gar- 1 

 den, except under the Agricultural Bureau of j 

 the general Government. Fortunately, the cli- 

 mate of AVashington is so near a medium of our 

 two exti-emes that any variety there perfecting 

 would have a fair chance to suit every latitude. 

 That Bureau should get out of thai petty seed 

 distribution, in which so much blunder and plun- 

 der is off-set by .so little good. In that business, 

 the seedsmen, whose catalogues and seed boxes 

 reacli every country store and border post otVice, 

 will beat them forever ; but a Poniological Gar- 

 den will furnish it a lasting and blessed w^ork, 

 too long and large for an individual task. If it 

 now and then gives a Congrc^ssTuan a tree, its 

 scions would reach a good deal closer to his con- 

 stituents than one of Mullett's choice plans for 

 a Senatorial mansion. There are but few lines 

 of culture in which the clumsy, time-serving 

 hands of the Government are not out of place. 

 There is little work which the people can do in 

 which government should ever dabble. But 

 there are lives of experimental trial whose task 

 is too broad, and who.se direct results are too 

 profitless, to tempt, or to pay for individual 

 effort. These are just those to which a wise 

 Government will put its powerful and tireless 

 hand and plentiful resources — a grand Ponio- 

 logical Garden is one. Go in for it, Mr. Le Due, 

 and you can have the pomological world back 

 you for the coveted dignity of a cabinet appoint- 

 ment. 



THE DWARF JUNEBERRY. 



^.^ .I\MI> rlMllT. (IIAM'TK. NKOSIIO CO., 

 KANSAS. 



I see an incjuiry in tlie Marcli numlierofthe 

 (Jakdknick's Monthly, askinti what is the 

 dwarf .Juneborry. It is a dwaif species of the 

 St'rvice berry that grows wild in the wood.s of 

 Kentucky, Ohio, and prol)ably in other States. 

 Tlie fruit and foliage of the two are alike ; the. 

 only diflerence I ever could discover lietween the 

 two, one is a tree growing fifty feet hi'_"h, the other 

 i> :i little (hvai'f, growing three to four fec-t luLrh. 

 I have had tlieni Itearinu aliundantly at eighteen 

 inciics in licii;!!! ; iiavc had it in bearing for the 

 last ten years. I brought a few plants with me 

 when I came here : and found it growing here 

 with one of my neighbors ; he, says it bears pro- 

 fvisely here. Here it is easy grown from layers, 

 and bears fruit the second y<!ar from jilanting. 



[The point we are not quite clear abont is the 

 distinction between the " dwarf" June Berry 

 and any other. The common one — Indian 

 cherry of these parts— grows 25 to .'^)0 f(^et high ; 

 but for all that it bears freely, and with nice large 

 fruit, at two or three feet, and at two or tliree 

 years old. What we wish to find out for our 

 readers is, whether they could call the ordinary 

 June Berry the " dwarf" June Berry, without 

 lieing considered*'" a fraud." For there is no use 

 in having distinctive , names without differences. 

 —Ed. G. M.] 



NOTES ON NEW FRUITS. 



BY W. S. (-'AIirENTKU, KYK, N. V. 



A few years ago, I received from the Rocky 

 Mountains some plum trees called the Yose- 

 niite, which is likely to prove of great value in 

 this section. The tree is quite distinct from any 

 other kind of plum that I have seen. It is a 

 very strong grower, very large leaves, and as 

 free from disease as an apple tree, and thoroughly 

 curculio proof. There are two varieties : One 

 strongly resembles the Damson, in size and color, 

 and is quite equal to that variety for canning ; 

 the other is quite large, bright yellow with a 

 scarlet cheek, very handsome. The trees bear 

 when not more than two or three years old, and you 

 are sure of a crop of fruit; not a plum is destroyed 

 by the curculio. Ten years ago I planted an 

 orchard of 25 varieties of our best plums, but 

 never gathered a peck of fruit from the trees, 

 which are now nearly destroyed with the black 

 rot. •! have the Wild Goose plum, hut get but 

 little fi'uit. There are a number of kinds which 



