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AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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and show it to be far superior to Early Beatrice. 

 Tlie latter seems going out of favor in California. 

 The following we find in an Illinois paper : 



"The question is now who shall produce the 

 early peaches. English and American horticul- 

 turists have been vying with each other in this 

 matter. First our Hale's Early was far ahead of 

 the English Early York ; next Mr. Rivers of Eng- 

 land, leads with his Early Beatrice, now Logan 

 county has the honor of leading in the race with 

 the Alexander, a peach that for earliness and ex- 

 cellence is ahead of all competitors. In California, 

 that land of fruits, the Alexander is attracting 

 much attention. The season is very late and fruits 

 are generally two to three weeks later in ripening 

 than usual. C. M. Silva & Son, of New Castle, 

 Cal., say that it ripened with them on the 12th 

 of June ; could have been shipped several daj's 

 earlier ; ripened ten days earlier than Beatrice, 

 and were fully twice as large. Messrs. M. T. 

 Brewer & Co., wholesale fruit dealers at Sacra- 

 mento City, who received a box of Alexander by 

 express, were surprised at seeing such fine flavored, 

 large sized and bright colored peaches so early 

 in the season, and pronounce it a very desirable 

 peach for shipping, and say that the Beatrice 

 will stand no comparison with it, — that while 

 Alexander peaches would sell in the market at 

 15 cents per pound the Beatrice would not sell 

 for one cent." 



Manure & Strawberry Insects. — Dr. Phillips, 

 Oxford, Miss., writes : — "I do not know whether I 

 communicated to you, or whom, that Dr. J. J. 

 Wlieat, professor of Greek in our University, re- 

 quested me to examine with him what should 

 have been his strawberry patch. He dug at each 

 hill, plants dead, and found one or more of the 

 grub worm, and where the plants were in a dy- 

 ing condition, we found the worm and the root 

 eaten up to the very plant. This proved, that 

 manure where the black beetle deposits eggs is 

 improper for the strawberry, as some one, I forget 

 now who, wrote some years ago. Dr. Wheat con- 

 cluded to make a new patch and use no animft,l 

 manure, and to-day he informs me that the worm 

 is in the new patch, but younger and smaller 

 than last year. He used cotton-seed meal, I 

 think. I know the bug will use oat meal to roll 

 his ball. I saw it done, but cannot suppose meal 

 applied last fall or this spring could be used in 

 the earth, and that the egg was deposited before 

 plants were set. 



A Strawberry Grower at Boulder, Colo- 



rado.— Mr. William Newland has one of the 

 most valuable tracts of land in the suburb of this 

 city, one-half mile to the north. Its chief attrac- 

 tion now is its l|-acre strawberry patch. They 

 were how just ripening fast, the first fruit, 700 

 quarts, having been gathered in the few last pre- 

 ceding days. The crop for the season is estimat- 

 ed at six thousand quarts. They were first sold 

 at fifty cents per quart, but had fallen to thirty 

 cents. — Colorado Farmer. 



NEW FRUITS ^ V:^GETABLES. 



Hajie's Apple.— Messrs. Cole & Co., Atlanta, 

 Ga., write : " We send you by express to-day a 

 few Hame's Seedling Apples — a seedling that 

 originated in Western Georgia in about 33^ 30'^ 

 N. latitude. It ripens with Red Astrachan, and 

 the specimens sent should have been gathered 

 ten days ago, and their condition is partly due 

 to the unfavorable season. Our apple trees in 

 this section are all blighted — the presence of in- 

 sects and improper handling. The fruit is only 

 one-half to two-thirds its usual size ; the heaviest 

 sent you weighing only 7J oz., while last year 

 specimens weighing 13J oz., were weighed by us, 

 and good authority represented they were not 

 the largest on the trees, — not grown with view to 

 obtaining size but large trees with bushels of 

 fruit on them. We have been watching the ap- 

 ple for several years and send these very poor 

 specimens, hoping they may reach you in con- 

 dition to enable you to form an opinion of its 

 merits ; promising to substantiate the statement 

 as to size by better specimens another j'ear. 



" The apples were not raised by us, but shipped 

 70 or 75 miles." 



[This apple has very much the appearance of 

 Summer Hagloe, but this is a month later, in- 

 stead of a month earlier than Red Astrachan. 

 Unquestionably it is a desirable varietj'. — Ed. G. 

 M.] 



Marylajh) Early Peach. — W. L, M., Freder- 

 ick City, Md., writes, July 11th : " I send you to- 

 day by express, specimens of a new peach, which 

 originated in this county, and which may prove 

 a valuable acquisition to the pomological wealth 

 of the country. 



" It is said, by the gentleman with whom it or- 

 iginated, to be a seedling of a yellow j)each, which 

 was itself a seedling. The tree is now five years 

 old and in perfect health, fruited last year bear- 



