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Black Hamburg, but it is quite distinct "from it, 

 and may be at once detected by its long, taper- 

 ing bunches, which usually color well, as its 

 name indicates. — The Garden. 



Prentiss Grape. — Mr. Hubbard sends sample 

 of the Prentiss grape. The bunches and berries 

 are about the size of Clinton, but much more 

 close and compact. The color is amber green. 

 The skin is thick, and this should render it an 

 admirable shipping and preserving kind. 



Preserving Hot house Grapes.— The writer 

 found among the gardeners in Canada, when in 

 that country recently, that the English plan of 

 preserving grapes in bottles of water was in not 

 uncommon use. The bunches are cut with 

 pieces of stems, and then so arranged that the 

 ends are in bottles of water. By this plan the 

 grapes can be preserved far into the spring sea- 

 son. 



Yellows in the Peach. — The knowledge 

 which those who have made a special study of 

 the matter are sure of, that the peach yellows is 

 caused by fungus growths, seems now to be com- 

 ing into general acceptance. Secretary Garfield, of 

 the Michigan Society, writes: "The peach yel- 

 lows is gradually working northward. A few 

 'sporadic cases * have been announced as far 

 north as northern Ottawa and Kent; but there 

 is a united feeling among peach growers that 

 every case must be stamped out at sight." 



Barbed- wire Fences. — ^Much complaint comes 

 from the injury to cattle from the barbs, from 

 the occasional looseiiing of the wires, from the 

 staples sometimes drawing out, and from rust 

 unle 8 well galvanized, and more than all from 

 the posts rotting away which is the chief trouble 

 with the ordinary post and rail fence. In a 

 recent run through Western New York the 

 writer noticed that one sensible fellow had 

 planted a line of osage oranges alongside of his 

 barbed fence. Thus if the posts rot away the 

 lines of wire will still be in the hedge and will 

 never need new posts ; while the lines of wire 

 running through as long as the hedge lasts will 

 make the most perfect security against all hogs 

 and all sorts of trespassers getting through. In- 

 deed it seems to us that the combination of 

 barbed fence and living plants is the perfection 

 of protective fencing, and certainly far superior 

 to the best methods of plashing ever invented. 



Sauer kraut — A Montgomery county, Penn- 

 sylvania correspondent of the GermarUoxun 



Telegraph says: "Last fall and winter an im- 

 mense quantity of sauer-kraut was imported 

 from Germany, a portion of which found ita way 

 to this county, and was pronounced very supe- 

 rior, although I cannot speak of its quality from 

 personal experience. The Germans of Reading 

 prepare it in a way that many consider far bet- 

 ter than most other methods. They cut the cab- 

 bage into long, thin slices, removing the stringy 

 core, and do not apply salt, but ram it down so 

 tightly in stout barrels that it is covered by its 

 own liquor. They then head-up the barrel, leav- 

 ing a hole in the top so as to admit of fermenta- 

 tion. In Germany the cabbage is rammed down 

 by a machine propelled by steam. That received 

 in this country last year came in tierces holding 

 sixty gallons each." 



Comparative Weight of Apples.— Some years 

 ago when the daily papers were completely ex- 

 hausted in exciting topics they took pains to 

 show how the poor denizens of large cities were 

 robbed by heartless farmers who would always 

 take the same price for a dozen small eggs as for 

 a dozen large ones. The universal panacea for 

 all evils, an appeal to the Legislature, was 

 warmly urged, and we believe in some places 

 laws were passed commanding eggs to be sold 

 by the pound. The political excitement will be 

 soon over and something new must be thought 

 of. How will an apple campaign suit ? It must 

 be borne in mind that a bushel of apples does 

 not always weigh the same. Some apples are 

 naturally denser than others. Ben Davis gives 

 only 40 pounds to the bushel; Vandevere 43; 

 Bellfleur and Winesap 44; Rome Beauty and 

 Rawle's Janet 47 ; Baldwin 48; Little Romanite 

 49. Besides this a bushel of small apples of the 

 same kind weighs less than a bushel of large 

 ones. Here is a serious matter for the plun- 

 dered city man to think over ! 



The Early Fruiting Walnut.— In a recent 

 number of the Gardener's Monthly, a corres- 

 pondent makes some inquiries about the Jug- 

 lans prseparturiens. In a recent issue of Revue 

 Horticole, Mons. Carriere gives an abstract of its 

 history. 



It was a chance seedling on the ground of 

 Louis Chetenay of Dou6-la-Fontaine in 1830. It 

 was first noted in print in the Annales de la So- 

 ciete d' Horticulture de Paris, 1840. 



Among a number of English walnuts only 

 three years old, Chetenay saw one bearing fruit. 

 M. Jamin cultivated it under the name of Ju^- 



