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the season. I see Rivers speaks very highly of 

 the Alexander. It seems to bear very abun- 

 dantly. The stock on which you work the peach 

 — the seedling peach I think — seems much better 

 suited to the healthy growth of the tree than 

 does the plum stock used by our nurserymen ; 

 and I like the look of American trees much bet- 

 ter. With these trees stock and graft swell away 

 together. This is not the case with the plum 

 stock. The peach never takes kindly to it, and 

 the result is a gnarled looking joint which does 

 not suggest, nor is it favorable to a healthy 

 growth. 



I doubt not but I shall get something good 

 from American pears and apples, but I must wait 

 awhile before being able to say anything positive 

 of them. 



American blackberries do well with me, but 

 somehow I don't think they would be cared for 

 by our people. Of all the American raspberries 

 that I have tried, there are none better than our 

 own, if so good. There is a certain flavor which 

 the Antwerp class have which seems lacking in 

 American sorts, decreasing their value. They 

 seem not so soft, even when fully ripe, as ours 

 are, and not so good flavored. 



I have not yet fruited any American grape vines, 

 but .1 have a Concord planted in a favorable 

 place, and from the good growth made last year 

 I, think I shall get fruit this season. But our 

 summers are hardly hot enough for these grapes 

 out of doors, even here in the south of England. 

 Occasionally a summer will be favorable enough 

 to color grapes of the Black Hamburg, grow- 

 ing against a south wall, but never enough to 

 ripen them. Still, American sorts may do better 

 with us. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



ANEW Tree Label.— "J. H.", Stanwood, Iowa, 

 writes: "I send you a sample of a new Label 

 designed to be used on all nursery stock. The 

 name is to be written on the outside, and inside 

 it is also to be written, to keep a record of the 

 name in case the outside should be washed out 

 by the rain or weather. They are not very 



Kansas Products. — The farmers of Kansas 

 raised nearly one hundred and twenty-three 

 millions of dollars of produce the past year. 

 Pretty good for a State reputed to be " drouthy," 

 and in a " drouthy " year. 



Mild Weather. — The English seem to have 

 had the same mild weather to new year that we 

 had. A correspondent of the London Daily 

 News says on December 5th : Fucshias were still 

 in bloom in the open air of the Isle of Wight, 

 and that he gathered ripe raspberries from 

 late Pall growths, and strawberries were getting 

 ripe. 



smoothly made yet, but you can see what they 

 are meant for. Please attach them to a tree, 

 and you will see how they will do. I have some 

 that I have used for a year, and the writing in- 

 side is as good as when put on, but the outside 

 is gone." 



Remedy for Bark Scale.— An Iowa City, 

 Iowa, correspondent sends us an article on his 

 manner of applying a wash for scale, but has 

 omitted to state what it is that is to be used as 

 the wash. 



Season and Pears.— Few fruits are more easily 

 affected in their good qualities than Pears. A 

 correspondent of the London Garden says, 

 that in England, Williams' Bon Chretien— our 

 Bartlett— was almost flavorless in his part of 

 England this year. Even with us the time of 

 gathering makes some difference. As a rule we 

 believe the Bartlett is best "when gathered before 

 it is thoroughly mature. In other words best 

 when ripened off the tree. 



Phylloxera Laws.— The Am. Naturalist says : 

 The existing laws regulating the traffic in plants 

 with a view of preventing the introduction of the 

 Grape Phylloxera, are thus summarized in the 

 annual report of the Syndical Chamber of Nurse- 

 reymen at Ghent. 



" Introduction of living plants is wholly for- 

 bidden in Italy, Spain, Turkey, Roumania, Alge- 

 ria, Cape of Good Hope. 



" Introduction of living plants is permitted, as 

 usual, except in the case of vines, which are pro- 

 hibited—Germany. 



" Introduction of living plants packed as usual, 

 \s permitted, but with a certificate of origin, in 



