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it can be applied by a very small sponge fast- 

 ened to a stick, or by a drop of the oil from the 

 stick itself; a touch of the oil is fatal to the bug. 

 It is easier than hand picking, and safer than 

 Paris green. In knocking bugs off many fall 

 down and escape, but none escape if touched 

 with the kerosene. 



EDITORIAL NOTES 



Benoni Apple. — Dr. Burnett regards this 

 as fully equal in value to the Early Joe, in Can- 

 ada. Benoni originated in Ontario Co., New 

 York -, and Early Joe in Massachusetts. 



The Rebecca Grape. — This old variety, one 

 of the first of the good white grapes, continues 

 popular in Canada. 



Cherry Bigarreau de Lyon. — A basket of 

 jolly-looking black cherries of great size and 

 beauty, stands for a few moments on our table, 

 from a tree thirty years old, growing on the or- 

 chard of Godfrey Zimmerman of Buffalo. It is 

 a kind deserving to be better known. 



Disease in Raspberries. — In our travels 

 recently we came on a gardener who believed 

 he had discovered the cause of a common dis- 

 ease in raspberries. Half of a row was making 

 no canes for next year, the leaves had a curled 

 up look, and the whole bush miserable, though 

 ripening fruit after a fashion. He dug some of 

 the roots for us, and found them spotted in many 

 places with decay. AVe had not the means of 

 detecting then whether this decay was from 

 insects or fungus, or other enemies ; but the 

 roots were in a bad condition, and no doubt had 

 something to do with the sickly tops. 



Vagaries of the Past "Winter. — Among 

 the curiosities of the last Winter not revealed 

 until recently, is its eifect on large Black Wal- 

 nut trees, at least about Philadelphia. In most 

 cases, indeed in all that we have seen, all heads 

 are killed down to the large main branches. In 

 the early part of July the young growth was push- 

 ing profusely from these main branches ; which 

 with so many dead ones above them, gave the 

 appearance of wholly dead trees covered with 

 Virginia creepers or other vines. 



The Hornet Raspberry. — One of the most 

 beautiful sights in the fruit line that we have 

 seen for a long time, was a block of Hornet rasp- 

 berries on the grounds of the venerable P. R. 



Freas, the fifty-year editor of the Germantown 

 Telegraph. The canes with their foliage were 

 models of health and beauty, and were borne 

 down or would have been had they not been tied,, 

 by their weight of fruit, and such fruit ! Though 

 Herstine, Philadelphia, and other well known 

 kinds were there and as well cared for, none of 

 them had such large berries or would fill the 

 bowl as well as "the bill" as these. The 

 berries were at least one-third larger than Her- 

 stine, and their jDcndulous cherry-like habit gives- 

 them an interest to the eye long before they 

 reach the mouth. Of course it is not " hardy."" 

 Lazy people to whom any thing that will fill the 

 stomach in the shortest and fullest manner J& 

 all that is worth living for will not touch it> 

 But any one to whom it is a labor of love tO' 

 spend an hour in October in bending down a 

 hundred canes or so, and covering them with a 

 few inches of earth, will have som'ething worth 

 loving all the Summer months following; for 

 the Hornet is a long time running out. One 

 can have Hornets on his table from his own 

 bed for six weeks, and not object to their pres- 

 ence ; even were they real " hornets" instead of 

 Hor-nays^ as the critical tell us we must call 

 them. 



Hothouse Grapes. — Mr. A. Sigler, of Adrian ^ 

 Michigan, is very successful with his cold 

 grapery. It is singular that more amateurs do 

 not have these adjuncts to garden pleasures. 

 Xo doubt people can bring Malagas and others, 

 from Portugal or California at nearly the same 

 figures as the cost of raising them ; but the nice 

 fresh cut from the vine, and of one's own growth, 

 besides just as we are ready for them, is wonh. 

 the five cents per pound ditierence in actual cost. 



Grub in the Vegetable Garden. — " Con- 

 stant reader" says: '"I have been considerably 

 troubled in my garden with a grub, the name of 

 which I cannot give. A. full grown one being about 

 two inches long, white with reddish head. L:ist 

 year it cut oft' all the roots of my young straw- 

 berries, ate potato tubers, beets, etc. ; and seems 

 to be particularly fond of lettuce. Am also told 

 it does sad havoc with grass. Every one I sp^nk 

 to about it seems to know it, but no one c in 

 give me any remedy to get rid of it. I would 

 ask you to be kind enough to give me some in- 

 structions through the Gardener's Monthly 

 that will enable me to get rid of the pest." 



[This seems to be the grub of the May beetle, 

 for which we know of no remedy but birds, all 



