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with a pink, spongy substance ; each of the little projections composing it being 

 found by a small pocket lens to be a small flower. Thus the mystery ceases. The 

 fig is really a little communit}' in which hundreds of individual flowers dwell, and 

 thus ends in hard cold facts the mystery of the Virgin and fig-tree. — Selected. 



Is tlie Apple Crop a Failure? 



Ti^DITOR Western Horticulturist : With the greatest profusion of flowers, and 

 J-^ the finest prospect for a large crop of apples last spring, we are now compelled 

 to believe that the crop will be small in quantity, and poor in quality. There is a 

 •general complaint of the imperfection of the fruit. The ground is covered with 

 apples, and those still remaining on the tree are defective. The tree appears to be 

 aff"ected as well as the fruit. Severe droughts, and hard winters (or something else) 

 are killing many outright, and rendering others feeble and sickly. The curculio 

 attacks the apple as well as the peach and the plum. So that no matter how fair in 

 appearance, or how rough and scabby, almost every specimen has a worm in it. 

 This comparative failure appears to be wide-spread and general — not confined to any 

 one locality, or to any particular variety. Young, thrifty, and healthy looking trees 

 seem to suff"er as bad as older ones. The borer at the root, and twig blight at the top will 

 soon destroy many fair specimens of choice bearing apple trees. The commercial value 

 of a good apple crop maybe estimated by millions of dollars, while the domestic value 

 is above all price. What is to be done ? Are these ravages beyond the control of 

 man? The remedies proposed are numerous and varied, but practically inefficient. 

 The theories of a man who signally fails in practice are worthless. 



Nauvoo, Illinois. C. Bradley. 



Miller's Daily Raspberry. 



LAST spring a year, we received from W. B. Lipsey, of Marion, Ind., a half dozen 

 raspberry plants labelled as above. It belongs to the Black Cap family, made a 

 good growth the first season, and produced a liberal crop the second for yearling 

 plants. He found the fruit quite as large as Mammoth Cluster, and of higher 

 quality than the Mammoth or Doolittle. Not having received anything from Mr. 

 Lipsey, concerning it, or any allusion to it from any other quarter, we have asked 

 Mr. Lipsey what he knows about it, and he replies : 



" Two years ago last May (1870), I received a few plants from an old friend in 

 in Southern Ohio, by the name of Isaac Miller, who informed me that he found 

 the original plant growing wild by the side of an old stump in one of his fields, and 

 from which he made a start. With me it gives better satisfaction than any other 

 variety out of a dozen or more on my grounds. It is as hardy as Doolittle or any 

 other variety." 



