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Our Al'PLR Ckop. — Jiulj;iny^ from what in known of a few or- 

 chards the yield this season is to be a large one, though the fruit is 

 not, perhaps, up to niaxiniuni in size. Mr. Win. Sonierville was in 

 the city on July 22 to dispose of 2(X) barrels, and the day after Mr. E. 

 H. S. Dartt on a similar errand, though the estimated yield in his 

 case is higher, jirobably 2,()()0 bushels. Mr, Dltus Day thinks he has 

 3(K) bushels and Mr. W. L. Parker has nearly the same. Others speak 

 in a general way of a successful fruitage. 



Set Up Youk Own Exnimr at the FAiK.--\Vhile any fruit sent 

 to the state fair, where the proper entries have l)een made, will be 

 set up by the management as well as possible under the circum- 

 stances, still no one can do this so well as the exhibitor, and except 

 in the case of small exhibits it is not the part of discretion to depend 

 upon it. There is a rush of work at that time and often lack of full 

 understanding of the purposes of the exhibitor, which does not con- 

 tribute to best results. By all means, come and set up your exhibit 

 yourself, if at all practicable. 



"Fruit Culture" my W. C. Strong, Newton, Ma.s.s.— This neat 

 little handbook was first published in 1885 and revised in 1892. The 

 writer is a nurseryman of long experience and evidently well fitted to 

 furnish such a guide as this for the amateur in fruit growing, for 

 whom it is evidently intended. It treats in a general way of the 

 various kinds of fruit grown in the North and, while not especially 

 adapted to this section, will be found a work worthy of careful per- 

 u.sal. It is a duodecimo of 225 pages, very handsomely printed in 

 cloth by the Rural Publishing Co., New York. 



Low Prices for Fruit.— Chas. W. Garfield, the noted Michigan 

 horticulturist, in a personal letter from Grand Rapids, says, "Fine 

 Wilson blackberries are retailing from our stores today for live 

 cents a (juart box, and the finest Cuthbert raspberries have sold as 

 low as three and a half cents per tjuart by the case." Verily the 

 Minnesota berry grower with red rasi)berries at $1.50 per case of 24 

 pints and a fair crop iti comparison, hath cause for thankfulness. 

 Mr. Garfield speaks also of the "tremendous crop of apples, excep- 

 tionally fine and free from blemishes." 



Horticulture in the Public Schools— A committee from the 

 Missouri State Horticultural Society, of which Mr. G. B. Lamm, of 

 Sedalia, Mo., is chairman, has been working several years upon a 

 plan for securing the information needed in preparing a school 

 book for use in the public schools. It would seem a wise thing to 

 furnish the youngsters at an early age such simple information on 

 this subject as they can understand and remember, most of which 

 can be done to the best advantage, at least in the country, by the aid 

 of object lessons. A suitable handbook to assist in this process 

 would be a great help. We are interested to know how our Mis- 

 souri brothers prosper in their experiment and the details of it. 



Fruits for the Winter Meeting. -Don't forget to save some of 

 the best specimens for this jjurpose, now that arrangements have 

 been made to store them here in a suitable cold storage to be kept 

 till wanted without expense to the sender. 



