1882. 



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are caught, as they are helpless when they once 

 get in the water. In trimming the lanterns use 

 less or more oil, according to the length of time 

 you want them to burn. They should be set on 

 something two feet or more from the ground. I 

 intend to use a number of the traps this season, 

 commencing when trees are in blossom, for the 

 moths are numerous and destructive." 



Superior Canadian Apples.— A correspondent 

 of the Canadian Horticulturist finds Duchess of 

 Oldenburg, Brockville Beauty, and Fameuse, as 

 thoroughly reliable apples in the severe winter 

 climate of Canada. 



Premiums for Celery and Onion Essays. — 

 D. Landreth & Sons, of Philadelphia, offer $100 

 in five premiums for short essays on celery cul- 

 ture, and the same amount of essays on onion 

 culture. This ought to bring out the new ideas, 

 of which there should be a good many lying 

 around in obscure corners. 



American Vegetables and Fruit. — The Eng- 

 lish papers are, some of them, discussing 

 -whether vegetables are more used or more 

 grown in England than America. One of them 

 has a correspondent who writes under the belief 

 that his country does not equal America, and 

 backs himself by the following opinion : 



"The reappearance upon our tables of Sea- 

 kale and Asparagus —our only two eatable green- 

 stuffs — naturally raises once more the perennial 

 question, Why have we in England no vegeta- 

 bles? To doubt the fact is impossible— at least 

 to anybody who knows what real vegetables are 

 like. 'Sir,' said an American stranger at a 

 restaurant in the Strand one day, ' Sir, this is the 

 one thing you can raise in your country and we 

 can't in ours— a mutton chop ; but tlien you 

 never tasted Green Peas in all your life.' " 



It seems to be forgotten that the " intelligent 

 traveller" is often the last person to know what 

 he is talking about ; and this "American stran- 

 ger" is evidently no exception to this rule. As 

 a pea-growing country America will not begin 

 to compare with England. There are other 

 vegetables which the English can raise far better 

 than we can. But if we are to take things as a 

 whole, we fancy the palm will be given to 

 America — at least to the Northern United States 

 and Canada. And there is no doubt but, setting 

 aside a few items as potatoes, cabbage, turnips, 

 and a few cool country kinds, the^use of vegeta- 

 bles, as well as of fruits, is much more general 

 in the new than in the old world. 



The Newtown Pippin Apple. — The Orange 



Co. (N. Y.) Farmer says: "The Gardener's 

 Monthly notes that considerable quantities of 

 the Newtown Pippin apple are yet received in 

 England from this country, and observes that 

 ' Probably the once famous spot on the Hudson 

 River where it found itself at home, still keeps 

 up a good supply for England.' We assure the 

 Monthly that such is not the fact. The long 

 ago famous Pell orchards have fallen into decay, 

 the scattering trees of Newtown Pippin still 

 standing are moss grown, and the fruit is so 

 marred with black patches as to be practically 

 worthless. Yet there are occasional trees and 

 some young orchards of the variety in southern 

 Ulster that are doing well. The town of Esopus, 

 in which the once famous Pell orchard is lo- 

 cated, is no better than a great many places in 

 Ulster County and Orange for the successful 

 cultivation of the Newtown Pippin. The tree 

 does not require any peculiarity of soil, but Mr. 

 R. L. Pell, with abundance of leisure and means, 

 had his orchards well cared for by directing his 

 laborers when, what and how to do. And he 

 made money by the operation, as any other 

 orchardist can. The variety has not ' run out.' 

 but with the proper ordinary attention due to all 

 fruit trees, the Newtown Pippin can be grown in 

 as great perfection as ever. It is a very profita- 

 ble variety to plant, and should be largely 

 planted." 



Tomatoes to the Acre.— In Harford County, 

 Maryland, two hundred bushels of tomatoes is 

 considered a fair yield per acre. 



Peach Culture.— At a recent meeting of a 

 farmer's club near Lancaster, Pa., as reported in 

 the Lancaster Farmer, Joseph C. Stubbs had bet- 

 ter luck when he planted in fence corners and 

 gave them no care. He knew an old nursery- 

 man that planted some peach trees in fields and 

 some in fence corners, and the ones in the fence 

 corners did the best. 



These experiences are often met with and 

 used in illustration of a supposed truth that 

 neglect is better than good culture. Nothing 

 can be further from the fact, except as one may 

 say that what is often supposed to be very good 

 cultivation is really culture of a very bad kind. 

 In the first place the peach of all trees needs 

 all its roots in order to perform properly all its 

 duties to its owner, and 'if our system of cultiva- 

 tion destroys half of these at a time when the 

 plant needs them all, it is bad cultivation. In a 

 ' fence corner the tree has at least this good ad- 



