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The H&t'ticulturist and Journal 



I'rices of Strnivherrie-s. 



A Cincinnati marketer gives the following 

 prices on a certain day of the different varieties 

 of the strawberry in that city, showing the 

 relative estimation in which they are held, 

 either for their fine appearance or good quality ; 

 Jucunda, 50 cents (very showy) ; Triomphe 

 de eland and Seth Boyden, 40 cents ; Ken- 

 tucky and Agriculturist, 30 to 35 cents ; 

 Charles Downing, 20 cents; and Wilson's 

 Albany, 10 to 15 cents. 



Gnrdetiiny in Florido. 



A lady in Lake City, Fla., has growing in 

 her garden a genuine cork tree thirty feet 

 high, the bark on which is sufficiently thick 

 to make bottle corks. There is also in the 

 same garden a genuine black pepper bush, 

 which yields regularly a full crop of berries. 



Cultivation of Tropical J''fiiit. 



The South says : We understand that a 

 company has been formed for the cultivation 

 of tropical fruit, and is in treaty for a tract of 

 640 acres of land at Biscayne Bay, at the 

 southeastern extremity of Florida. This 

 tract was a military post during the Florida 

 war, and has growing upon it a large number 

 of fruit trees, viz. : Banana, Plantain, Cocoa- 

 nut, Orange, Lime, Lemon, Bread-fruit, Date, 

 Guava, Mango, and others too numerous to 

 mention. The capital of the company will be 

 $10,000, $7,000 of which is already sub- 

 scribed. Frost never reaches this place, the 

 climate is delightful, winter or summer, and 

 perfectly healthy. 



Kansas fruits. 



The following is a perfect copy of a letter 

 from a correspondent of The Deparl merit of 

 Agriailture. It will be seen that this "in- 

 side view, puts Kansas fruits in very different 

 lights, from the puffed celebrity gained by 

 exhibitions at Eastern fairs, Leavenworth. 

 "We had no apples worth counting. The 

 State Society took some premiums in the 

 East, but it was a mere "trick of business." 

 They solicited a few good specimens from 

 young orchards in favorable localities and 

 ViXi^nWy showed them 7ip. In truth our apples 

 are very knotty and poor, and not one-tenth 



of a product ; not one-fourth of a supply for 

 the people here." 



A)jav<^ TJnivittata, 



This is now flowering for the first time in 

 Europe, at the greenhouse of Mr. Peacock, 

 Sudbury House, Hammersmith, England. 



Arbor Jiatf. 



In Nebraska, they have what is called 

 " Arbor Day." The State Board of Agricul- 

 ture gives a premium of $100 to the County 

 Agricultural Society of the county in which 

 the greatest number of trees are planted on 

 the 10th day of April, and $25 to the indi- 

 vidual planting the greatest number of trees 

 on that day. 



Gov. Furnas, in a letter to an exchange, 

 says : A smart little boy, aged eight years, 

 named Calvin Sigel Hall, Schuyler, Colfax 

 county, Nebraska, went alone two miles from 

 home, to the Platte river, dug up nine hun- 

 dred and eighty young cottonwood trees, took 

 them home and planted them all in one day, 

 and by himself! Our board has awarded 

 him a special premium of $25. 



A letter from Schuyler on the subject, of 

 date July 13, says, " the trees are all growing 

 nicely." 



Ijitnc for I'each Trees. 



The Hon. John M. Clayton, of Delaware, 

 who was a large and successful peach grower, 

 found lime the best manure he ever applied 

 to peach trees. He scraped the dirt off and 

 applied from three to a dozen shovelfuls of 

 lime fresh from the kiln to the naked roots. 

 It killed the grubs and favored the growth of 

 fruit. The editor of The Flow said, " cer- 

 tainly we have never seen more healthy 

 looking trees than those of farmer Clayton." 

 Sometimes one can kill the larvae of the cur- 

 culio under peach trees by a heavy dressing 

 of lime recently slaked. 



The Teinperuture tw Gerviitiate Seeds. 



Seeds of hardy flowering plants require a 

 temperature in the soil of about 50*^ or 60° 

 to germinate well, and tender plants 75° and 

 upwards. These facts should be borne in 

 mind by those who would succeed with annual 

 flowers, and the seeds be sown at correspond- 

 ing periods in spring. 



