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flavor. It makes a capital cooking apple. 

 We strongly advise those who live in the 

 colder parts of the State to give this apple a 

 trial, believing that they will find it the best 

 early ripening sort for their climate. Ripe 

 early in August. 



Killing Insects hy the Gallon. 



A writer in a French horticultural journal 

 relates this suggestive experience : "After 

 sunset I place in the center of my orchard an 

 old barrel, the inside of which I have pre- 

 viously well tarred. At the bottom of the 

 barrel I place a lighted lamp. Insects of 

 many kinds, attracted by the light, make for 

 the lamp, and while circling round it strike 

 against the sides of the barrel, where, meeting 

 with the tar, their wings and legs become so 

 clogged that they fall helpless to the bottom. 

 In the morning I (Examine the barrel, and 

 frequently take out of it ten or twelve gallons 

 of cockchafers, which I at once destroy. A 

 few pence worth of tar employed in this 

 way will, without any further trouble, be the 

 means of destroying innumerable numbers of 

 these insects, whose larvae are amongst the 

 most destructive pests the gardener or farmer 

 has to contend against." 



A. Jiemitifnl Bed of Geraniums. 



According to The Ainerica?i Rural Home, 

 there was this summer in Rochester, a 

 geranium bed, approaching perfection as near 

 as any ever seen. This bed undoubtedly owes 

 its great success to the care exercised in pro- 

 pagating the plants, in assorting and trans- 

 planting them, and in the care which they 

 receive all through the season. Cuttings of 

 the finest plants of the Glen. Grant variety 

 are made during the latter part of summer. 

 These are kept in the greenhouse until the 

 latter part of May, when they are assorted, 

 and the most vigorous ones used. The bed 

 is oval, or palm-leaf shaped, highest in the 

 middle, and well manured with rotten stable 

 manure, and decayed leaves. The bed is 

 kept clean and mellow all through the season, 

 and the fading flowers removed. The result 

 is a mass of brilliant scarlet bloom from June 

 to October, 



Ketv Giirdens. j 



The number of visitors on one day, Mon- I 

 day, June 2, at the Royal Kew Gardens, 

 near London, England, was no less than 

 59,152. Good order prevailed everywhere, 

 and not a plant was damaged willfully or by 

 accident. Such an audience to see plant 

 exhibition only, never was heard of in 

 America, although over 105,000 persons 

 have been known in a single day to enter 

 the fair grounds at St. Louis. 



Winter Sechel I'ear. 



Specimens have been shown us from a 

 subscriber in Central New York, of a seed- 

 ling from the Seckel pear, but ripening as a 

 winter variety ; has a fine quality, though 

 not quite as sweet or sprightly as the Seckel, 

 yet more so than the Lawrence ; firm flesh, a 

 good keeper, russety color, brighter and 

 better in this respect than the Seckel, and 

 seems to be a very desirable acquisition. 

 Doubtless there are more Winter Seckels 

 scattered through the United States, yet this 

 is stated to be a genuine seedling, and the 

 fruit is really fine. 



The American Garden, 



The Floiver Garden, originaly published 

 as a quarterly, at $1 per year, by Beach, Son 

 & Co., of Brooklyn, N. Y., has been changed 

 in character, and, with the above new title, 

 appears as a new horticultural journal, 

 monthly, conducted by James Hogg, editor. 

 The first number of any new journal is not 

 always the best, and we doubt not Mr. Hogg 

 will see the time when he can produce num- 

 bers, besides which this will be considered of 

 little consequence. Almost every horticultural 

 journal wins its way by some devotion to 

 special branches of horticultural lore ; we 

 will, therefore, watch with interest the field 

 which The American Garden will mark out 

 for itself, and how it will fill it. 



iWror, 



In Frontispiece for September, the title 

 should read. View of Sydenham Palace, Lon- 

 don, England. Two cuts were ordered, one 

 of Kew Gardens and one of Sydenham Pal- 

 ace, and by error, wrong cut used with the 

 above title. 



