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CUTHBERT. 



should never be over 190°, cind it is 

 better not to raise it above 160° or 

 170°. To make the best fruit they 

 should not be dried hai'd, but should Vje 

 taken from the evaporators while much 

 of the fruit is yet more or less soft. — 

 //. F. Van Dusen in Country Geyitle- 

 tnan. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



Landreth's Rural Register and 

 Almanac for 1 884 is full of information 

 concerning seed growing, garden vege- 

 tables, and flower seeds, and marks the 

 one hundreth year of the business 

 career of D. Tjandreth & Sons, as seeds- 

 men, in Philadelphia. 



Calendar of Queen's College and 

 University, Kingston, Canada, for the 

 year 1883-84, contains the usual an- 

 nouncements, subjects of study, scholar- 

 slii[)S, and examination pajiers in arts, 

 tlieology and medicine, with list of 

 graduates and alumni. 



The American Angler is a weekly 

 journal devoted to fish and fishing, 

 published by the Angler's Publisliing 

 Company, 252 Broadway, New York, 

 at $3 a year, W. C. Harris, editor. 

 Ju<lgiug from the specimen copy re- 



ceived it is well tilled with reliable 

 information on the subjects to which it 

 is devoted. 



Catalogue of Books on Agriculture, 

 Horticulture, and Botany, including 

 the best works on Floricultui-e, Garden- 

 ing, Domestic Animals, Rural Archi- 

 tecture, and kindred subjects, for sale 

 by Robert Clarke & Co., 61, 65, West 

 Fourth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1884, 



Our Little Ones and the Nur- 

 sery is published monthly by the 

 Russell Pul)lishing Company, Boston, 

 Massachusetts, at $1.50 a year. It is 

 illustrated with engravings in the best 

 style of the art on every page, and the 

 reading matter is printed in clear type 

 of good size that will not weary the 

 eyes of the little readers. 



The Weather, by S. S. Bassler, in 

 a pam})hlet of tiftyfour [lages, piiblished 

 l)y Roljert Clarke & Co., Cincinnati, 

 Ohio, price 25 cents, which aims to be 

 a help to the better understanding of 

 the weather reports and predictions 

 daily issued by the signal service. It 

 treats of the dew-point, high and low 

 l>aronu3ter, storms, &c., and is fnlly 

 illustrated with diagrams shewing the 

 progress of storms. 



