28 Editorial JYotes. 



A I'fofitnble Ci'nnbet'ry Crop. 



Three thousand bushels were recently picked from 3| acres of land near Berlin, 

 Wis. From 40 acres on the Carey Marsh, 8,200 barrels were picked, worth $3 per 

 bushel. The Carey Brothers employ 1,400 hands this season in picking. The 

 daily picking by hand is one to five bushels. Price paid 75 cents per bushel. 

 One week's picking among Berlin laborers amounted to $25,000. 



A. Keiv GlnOiolua. 



The John Standish Gladiolus, just introduced, has flesh colored flowers, marked 

 with crimson and purple, forming a magnificent spike. 



The HoneusucUle us « Standard. 



A writer in The Villa Gardener thinks that the Honeysuckle is one of the most 

 regularly fiowered climbers in cultivation, taking rank for efi'ect, and surpassing in 

 many points — odor for instance — even the gorgeously colored clematises, which are 

 in every modern garden. As a standard, the Honeysuckle merits the very foremost 

 place in our villa gardens. " We have seen it with thousands of flower umbels in 

 pale yellow and pale pink, decorating villa grounds in a way that no single plant in 

 the month of July can do.'' 



It is scarcely possible, in words, to portray its extreme beauty and eff"ectiveness. 



Buy a plant of it (cost not 50 cents), train or tie it to a stout stake, as one would 

 do a standard rose ; prune it not too severely, but in the way a Hybrid China 

 Rose ought to be done ; give it a good soil to gi'ow in, and it needs no further atten- 

 tion. It will grow into a plant that will astonish, by its flowei'ing capacity, 

 thousands and tens of thousands who have not seen it so trained. 



Flowers in New York. 



At Christmas, New Years, and Easter, there is fairly a rage for flowers of every 

 description. Prices then rise to very high figures, such as Camellias, $50 per 100 ; 

 Tuberoses, $10 per 100, and Rosebuds, $5 to $8. These are trade rates. Con- 

 sumers have to pay higher — Camellias, $1 each ; Roses, 25 cents ; Tuberoses, 25 

 cents; Carnations, 15 cents ; Violets, 4 cents. When the holidays are past, and the 

 fever is over. Camellias fall to $6 per 100 ; Carnations, $1 ; Roses, $2 to $3, and all 

 others in proportion. 



Peinisi/li'anui l''v>iU Growers' Society . 



The fourteenth annual meeting of this society will be held this time at Reading, 

 about twenty miles from Philadelphia, commencing January 15th, 1873. Some 

 important features are introduced for the first time in this society. Usually much 

 time is lost in preparing business. Here it is all prepared beforehand, and people 

 can come prepared to discuss them, while under the head of new business, any subject 

 not on the programme can be introduced at the option of members pi'esent. Among 

 the subjects in order, we note the hedge question, line of planting trees, preparing 

 ground for orchards, profitable management of orchards, manures, new varieties, 

 philosophy of plant life, the whole grape question, the interests of fruit growers, 

 beautifying of grounds, manufacture of fertilizers, ripening and preserving pears, 

 underdraining, weeds and weed laws, sheltering orchards, and so forth. Members 

 are selected to open these questions by a short address. Among the names announced 

 for addresses are those of H. Bartram, Wm. Parry, H. T. Williams, S. W. Noble, 

 Wm. Saunders, Charles H. Miller, A. S. Fuller, F. F. Mereeron, J. S. Staufi"er, 

 Tobias Martin, T. M. Harvey, E. Satterthwaite, H. M. Engle, T. B. Jenkins, and 

 Thos. Meehan. 



The list of members embrace names from all parts of the Union, as the annual 

 volumn of proceedings is the next best thing to being present personally. The 

 annual fee for membership is two dollars. President, Josiah Hoopes, West Chester; 

 Secretary, W. P. Brinton, Christiana. ^ . • 



