1876.] 



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by side. The prospect for my seedlings. Wilder, 

 Downing and Saunders is fair, and I expect to 

 show them at the proper time. There is also an 

 early new seedling in Cumberland Valley of fair 

 promise, that fruited for the first time last season, 

 which shall be on hand if it comes to time. Let 

 US hope the Beatrice, Louise, E. Rivers, Ams- 

 den, Alexander, Honeywell, and all other candi- 

 dates for hoijors of earliness will be on hand. 



My first impulse was to write an article for the 

 Monthly, but have concluded that it would be 

 more effective in the shape of an editorial, if you 

 approve of the suggestion. 



[Mr. Engle's suggestion is a timely one. We 

 hope those who have early peaches will send 

 them. No application for space is required, as 

 requested of the permanent exhibitors. If they 

 are sent, express paid, to Burnett Landreth, Ag- 

 ricultural Bureau, Centennial Building, Phila., 

 they will be properly taken care of, and placed 

 on exhibition. The early kinds exhibited should 

 of course come from the same localities for com- 

 parison. On the 9th of June some fine Early 

 Beatrice were on exhibition, but they were from 

 Alabama, and there were no other kinds from 

 that region to compare tljem with. One of these 

 was eight and a-half inches round, and the flavor 

 better .than any we had tasted before of this 

 kind.— Ed. G. M.] 



Cornelian Cherry. — An Indiana correspon- 

 dent, evidently supposing this to be a cherry, in- 

 quires "what stock it is budded on." It is not 

 a true cherry, but a dog wood — Coi-nus mas — 

 also called male Cornel, but why, we never knew. 

 The fruit is cherry-like, and employed to make 

 rather tame preserves and tarts. It has great 

 beauty as an ornainental shrub to recommend it. 

 It is grafted on no stock, but raised by nursery- 

 men from seed. 



White Alpine Strawberry. — J. H. C, Colum- 

 bus, O., says ; " I once had a white Alpine straw- 

 berry, twenty years ago, that bore a long time 

 after the strawberry season and bore abundantly. 

 I see no account of such a berry. Who can tell 

 about it? It was about the color of pale buff pa- 

 per and very delicious. I would like to know if 

 any one can tell about such a berry. I regret 

 very much' that I neglected to keep it." 



[There are white varieties of the Alpine straw- 

 berry, but most attempts to keep the Alpines in 

 cultivation prove futile, from ignorance as to the 

 proper culture of Alpines When treated as 

 ordinary strawberries they are small, and hardly 



worth growing. They need reclaimed bog land 

 or some other cool soil to do well.— Ed. G. M.] 



Leechee Nuts.— Miss G. writes, "My neice, 

 Mrs. Wm. C. Heacock, U. S. N., when in San 

 Francisco, about three years ago, was presented 

 by a Chinaman with some nuts containing, as 

 near as I can make out, an edible pulp covering 

 a stone. The nuts are about the size of the lar- 

 gest button balls of the Buttonwood or Plane 

 tree, are of a brown color and look as if all parti- 

 cles were joined into one and hardened to a 

 crust. I find by crushing it a little I can encloaS 

 a broken one. If it should be new to you so far 

 that you desire more, I will send you some per- 

 fect ones and will ask you to name it. 



[This is the fruit of the Nephelium Leechee, 

 a Chinese tree that would be hardy south. — Ed, 

 G. M.] 



Disease in Cabbage Plants. — A Felton, Kent 

 Co., Del. correspondent, says: "I send by mail 

 to-day in a small box, packed in moss, two cab- 

 bage leaves of Jersey Wakefield variety. They 

 are spring grown, in a gentle hot-bed; the bed 

 has been only moderately warm at any time. I 

 have observed lately that the leaves have looked 

 yellow, but paid very little attention to them, 

 thinking it was the effect of frosts during the late 

 cold nights. To-day finding them looking worse 

 than ever, I examined the plants and found the 

 leaves thickly covered on the under surface with 

 a white insect, about the size of red spider that 

 infests hot-house plants, perhaps somewhat lar- 

 ger than these. The bed of plants has the ap- 

 pearance of having been scalded. At first they 

 appear in small patches and some leaves have 

 but very few on them, others have, as you see 

 by the specimens I send you, the under surface 

 thickly studded. In the same bed of about 4000 

 plants are about 1000 of Fottler's Early Drum- 

 head, and these are but slightly, if at all affected. 

 I have failed to find any reference to such an in- 

 sect in Henderson's books, the Gardener's Month- 

 ly or other Agricultural papers, and I take the lib- 

 erty of sending you these specimens, hoping they 

 may arrive in good order, and that you may en- 

 lighten myself and the many other readers of the 

 Gardeners Monthly in regard to this, to me, singu- 

 lar insect, which I fear may prove a serious hind- 

 rance to the already risky business of growing 

 cabbage." 



[This is Peronospora parasitica, near relative 

 of the Potato fungus, and likely to prove a dan- 

 gerous customer. — Ed. G. M.] 



