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I imes among my Richardia ^thiopica ; but I have 

 never heard of it on the R. alba maculata before." 

 [It is not common ; but considered to be oftener 

 -!«>een on R. maculata, than on the R. ^thio- 

 pica. — Ed. G. M.] 



Fruiting of Fictjs Pakcelm.— F. B., of 



Jackson, Mich., writes : '" "We have a plant of 

 Ficus Parcelli in our collection, wMch is show- 

 ing fruit. I have not heard of this plant fruit- 

 ing, and would like to know through the Gar- 

 dener's Monthly, if such is the case. The 

 fruit is about the size of a hazel-nut, and in form 

 "Jike the common Fig Ficus Carica." 



Archbishop "Wood and Guillon Mangel- 

 1.E0N Geraihums. — G. J. B., writes : " I have 



grown Guillion Mangelleon, and Bishop Wood 

 Geranium in and out-door side by side. There 

 is not in habit, foliage, petiole, truss, or 

 color the slightest difference. They are un- 

 hesitatingly bothalike, and therefore it would be 

 more practicable to adopt either one or the 

 other name ; not having one variety circulating 

 under two names." 



[These two varieties ; one raised in America, 

 and the other in Europe, are not quite the same ; 

 but as our correspondent says, so nearly alike 

 that it is not desirable to continue them both in 

 circulation. As Archbishop Wood seems to 

 have been the first in the field, and a much 

 easier name to handle, we propose to keep this 

 one and let the other drop. — Ed. G. M.] 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening. 



COMMUNICA TIONS. 



FRUITS IN IOWA. 



BY SUEL FOSTER, MUSCATINE, IOWA. 



I am inclined to saj' a good thing for our sea- 

 son and crops in Iowa, up to this 8th of July. 

 Never had a better season for Strawberries. 

 Some places they were injured by frost while in 

 bloom. The wet weather through the entire 

 month of June prolonged their harvest, and 

 weakened their market down to seven and eight 

 cents retail. And by the 15th of June the Rasp- 

 berries came ; they are also holding out yet 

 We have for Blackcaps, Doolittle and Mam_ 

 moth Cluster, Red, Pliiladelphia and Turner. 

 There is not much diflference in the quantity 

 produced by the above fruit ; but the Tm*ner is 

 80 much superior in quality, that they bring 

 from twenty to thirty-three per cent, higher, 

 where the market has once got a taste of them. 

 They stand our Winters better than any Red 

 Raspberry I ever had. Our strawberries are 

 Wilson, Greene Prolific, Turner, Charles 

 Downing, Kentuck3\ A new one originating at 

 Waterloo, Iowa, called Red Jacket, very pro- 

 ductive, which I intend to try next year, also 

 'Crescent. 



Cherries very abundant, at SI .00 to SI. 50 per 

 bushel. They are Early Richmond, and Late 

 English Morello. The later is equally hardy and 



productive with E. R. ; but a far better cherry, 

 two to three weeks later, thus prolonging the sea- 

 son. 



Grapes promise abundant. Apples and 

 peaches, only medium. 



The weather is hot, 90° ; and haying and har- 

 vestjs at hand, with bountiful crops. 



THE DWARF JUNE BERRY. 



BY MR. FRANK ADAMS, AKRON, OHIO. 



You asked the question last Winter, in one of 

 the numbers of your Monthly, " What is a 

 Dwarf June Berry ?" stating that you had 

 never seen one, and did not know that there was 

 such a thing. I have several of them growing 

 on my grounds. The original one which I planted 

 out some four years since, is now a clump of 

 stalks from one fourth of an inch to an inch in 

 diameter, and from one foot to seven feet high. 

 I presume there are seventy-five stalks or shoots. 

 When in bloom in early Spring, it is one mass 

 of white flowers, and then another mass of fruit. 

 I inclose a sample. When fully ripe, they are 

 nearly black, and as good to eat as a Whortle- 

 berry ; but it is next to impossible to keep them 

 from the birds as they go for them as soon as the 

 berry begins to turn red. These which I inclose 

 are not ripe, but enough so; so you will see 

 what they are. If a man had an acre of them, 

 and could keep the bii"ds from them, he would 



