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peach than these were. So far as the appearance 

 and the flavor are concerned, we shouUl say it was 

 worth trying in a fair comparison with popular 

 kinds of early ones, now much sought after. 



Alpine Strawberries. — C. S. Armprion, 

 Ontario, Canada, writes : " There is in the nur- 

 series of the Renfrew Fruit and Floral Company 

 here, a patch of Alpine Strawberries that were 

 planted two years ago. Last year they were all 

 white, but this year they have changed to red, 

 with the exception of a plant here and there. 

 They join a patch of Wilsons. Can that have 

 anything to do with it? Mr. Meehan please 

 give us light on the matter." 



[The only explanation we can ofler is that a 

 plant of the Red variety, which in some un- 

 known way had become mixed with the others, 

 has "struggled for life" with the white ones, 

 and stands a good chance of a complete victory. 

 —Ed. G. M.] 



Origin OF Early Joe and Benoni Apples. 

 C. D., Newburgh, X. Y., writes : " The Early 

 Joe originated in Ontario, County, and the 

 Benoni in Massachusetts. Their locations were 

 reversed in the last Gardener's Monthly." 



Peaches from Painesville, Ohio. — The 

 seedlings mentioned in letter of M. B. B., Paines- 

 ville, Ohio, did not come to hand. 



Walterloo Peach. — Ellwanger & Barry, 

 Rochester, N". Y., writes : "We send you by 

 mail to-day, samples of the Waterloo Peach 

 which we trust will reach you in good order. 

 The fruit is not so large as usual, owing to the 

 overloaded condition of tree, neither has it 

 ripened so early. This we find to be the case 



with all the very early peaches that we have 

 seen thus far. Compared in size with Cumber- 

 land, Musser, Downing, Sanders, Wilder, and 

 Mr. Davidson's, it is the largest of them all." 



[The fruit came in excellent order, and mea- 

 sured each six and three-quarter inches in circum- 

 ference, weighed two and three-quarter ounces, 

 had a beautiful dark red color, a slightly cling- 

 ing stone, and moderate flavor.— Ed. G. M.] 



Raspberry from Burlixgton, N. J.— We 

 hardly know what to say of fruit sometimes sent 

 to us, a few samples not being like what they 

 are afterwards found >to be. We can only say 

 that some before us from Mr. John Churchman, 

 appear to be of the same class as the Philadel- 

 phia, but are much larger and in every way bet- 

 ter than any of this class we have yet seen. 

 The stems were taken out in the usual way of 

 marketiag raspberries, and eight of tliem weigh- 

 ed one ounce. If all the other points which go 

 to make up a perfect raspberry excel as size 

 and flavor do, we should say Mr. Churchman has 

 a very good thing. 



Fruit Notes from Mercer Co., Pa. — T. A. 

 N., Indian Run, writes under date July 10th : 



" Fruit prospects. Apples light crop here ; 

 pears and peaches medium crop ; grapes nmch 

 injured by insects ; cherries and strawberries fine 

 crop — of the latter on our grounds we have several 

 acres, and can raise more plants of one hundred 

 Cresent Seedlings, than we can of five hundred 

 Wilson's Albany. Raspberries, Pride of the 

 Hudson •, failure here. New Rochelle do well if 

 the fruit don't prove too soft for shipping. Near 

 the oil regions here fruit finds a ready demand." 



Natural History and Science. 



COMMUNICA TIONS. 



We all know that many plants are killed l)y 

 even a short exposure to a freezing tempera- 

 ture, and that others, ordinarily considered 

 EFFECTS OF FROST ON PLANTS, &C. ^^ri.^e.-.p.oof with us, are destroyed by an ,m- 

 BY PROF. t. J. BURRILL. usual degree of cold, especially in certain con- 



The following valuable paper, was read at a ditions of the plant tissues. It is further under- 

 recent meeting of the Illinois State Horticultural [ stood that, in some cases at lea.st, quite as nui.h 

 Society: depends upon the manner of thawing, as to llie 



