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England, which he named the Comet, which is 

 described as ripening about the same time as this. 

 On accomit of the wet, cold weather during the 

 past summer, the peach was not so highly flavored 

 as in previous years ; still it sold for a big price in 

 Washington, D. C. market. It is from two to 

 three weeks later than the Salway. This peach 

 originated in Kent Co., Md. 



[We have before given our opinion of this ex- 

 cellent Peach, under the provisional name of 

 Comet.— Ed. G. M.] 



ELDRED CLING PEACH. 



BY W. FALCONER, BRENHAM, TEXAS. 



A year ago last June, Mr. D. R. Eldred, a far- 

 mer and enthusiastic fruit grower of this (Wash- 

 ington) county, Texas, brought a basketful of 

 these peaches to Mr. Watson for his opinion 

 regarding them. It was in the first week in June, 

 just as Hale's Early began ripening, and as a 

 cling at that season is a rarity, it may be consid- 

 ered one of the best additions to our peach list in 

 Texas, where clings are so much more in demand 

 than free-stones, and it is a decided cling. The 

 fruits are as large as Crawford's Early, somewhat 

 oval in shape ; pale yellow skin, with a beautiful 

 red cheek ; flesh, whitish, very juicy and rich. 

 Mr. Watson says it is the earliest cling of his 

 knowledge, and decidedly a first rate fruit, and 

 in compliment to its raiser. Mr. W. has named it 

 Eldred Cling. This j^ear the fruits sold at a 

 higher price than any in others Brenham. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Strawberry Fertilizer. — A Lancaster corres- 

 pondent of the Farmer says : '"An experiment 

 made last year by myself may not come amiss at 

 this time with those who grow Strawberries. I 

 procured half a hogshead, filled it with rain 

 water, and put into it ^ib. of ammonia, and ^Ib. 

 of common nitre. When the Strawberry plants 

 were blossoming out, I gave them a sprinkling of 

 the solution at evening twice a week until the 

 fruit was nearly of size. The result was double 

 the amount of fruit on those where the liquid 

 was applied, to what was obtained from those 

 alongside, to which none of the liquid was ap- 

 plied." 



Profitable Bee-keeping. — One of the most 

 profitable speculations in Bee-keeping that we 

 ever knew, was by a young lady in Illinois, until 



recently. Miss Ella Dunlap. But two Cali- 

 fornian girls seem to have gone ahead of her 

 A correspondent of the Rural Press says " that 

 they kept on teaching till they got money 

 enough to buy two hundred stands of bees. 

 They then bid good-bye to school and took pos- 

 session of their bee-farm. Their accommoda- 

 tions were not palatial, but they answered the 

 purpose, and I will wager anything I have in the 

 world that no weary traveler passing the Smith- 

 Linden rancheria would say that the inmates 

 were ' keeping bach.' 



Last week the senior partner came up by 

 steamer with the first 2,500 pounds of white 

 sage honey. She has another 1,000 pounds com- 

 ing. She found the honey market depressed on 

 account of the financial collapse, and put it in 

 store -until things looked brighter. 



I have no business to be telling this story, but 

 I think it ought to be told for the encouragement 

 of girls tired to death of sewing and teachmg. 

 And I think it ought to be told to prove that one 

 student of the University has taken to agricul- 

 tural pursuits. And I think that every pound of 

 honey should be sold to the good housekeepers 

 of San Francisco at prices which will pay the 

 producers fairly for their credital)le undertaking. 



Miss Smith is taking advantage of her leisure 

 to collect information about honey secreting 

 plants. She sowed all the mignonette seed she 

 could get last year, and now intends putting in a 

 crop of two acres." 



Dreer's Lima Bean. — Mr. Geo. Paist, of Rees- 

 ville, Chester Co., Pa., reports that he finds this 

 variety a remarkably prolific bearer, and in his 

 opinion it is much superior in every respect to 

 the common Lima bean. 



Remedy for the Celery Fly. — One of the 

 worst enemies to the celety is a small fly, which 

 deposits its eggs in the leaves, and the young eat 

 their way under the skin, and in this way materi- 

 ally affect the growth of the plant. The English 

 Gardener's Chronicle says : — " I can fully concur 

 with what has been stated by Mr. Tillery as re- 

 gards soot being beneficial to the growth of Celery 

 and also a preventive to the celery fly (Tephri 

 tis onopordinis), having experimented with the 

 same with satisfactory results, though instead of 

 selecting a fine day for the operation I selected a 

 showery one. I intended to have written to you 

 before on this subject, as I consider it an easy 

 remedy and of great importance where fine heads 

 of celery are in requisition." 



