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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTDEIST. 



larger than the Wild Goose ; rather thick 

 skin, a deep cardinal red when fully ripe ; 

 stone small and fruit of fine quality, per- 

 sistent, and not liable to be blown off by 

 high winds. Ripens two to three weeks 

 before the Wild Goose, and continues in 

 fruit three to four weeks. 



This fruit is entirely free from the 

 ravages of the curculio and other insects ; 

 bears uniformly heavy crops in all seasons. 



We believe it originated in Texas. 

 Whether it has yet been tried in very 

 cold latitudes, we are unable to say. 



THE CABBAGE WORM. 

 If you consider the following worth 

 space in your publication you may give 

 it to your readers. I have seen so many 

 plans for killing the cabbage worm, and 

 tried them, none come up to this simple 

 and effectual remedy. Take air slack 

 lime, finely powdered, dust it on the 

 cabbage, it will run down the leaves to 

 the stock, and no more grubs will be 

 seen for some time. If they do appear 

 again, another dose will not be hard to 

 apply, wont hurt the cabbage if not 

 too heavily applied. Road dust has 

 been recommended, but if limestone 

 was not in the road dust it is useless. 

 I have no hesitation in saying, air slack 

 lime is the best thing to put on cabbage. 

 I tried it, and want no other remedy. 



Robert Kennedy, 

 Bethany. 



HARDY PEAR TREES. 



Dr. Hoskins, of Northern Vermont, 

 writes to the Rural New Yorker, that 

 the Flemish Beauty has proved as hardy 

 with him as the Snow A])ple tree, and 

 that Clapp's Favourite Pear is yet more 

 hardy. The Onondaga, also, he has 

 found to be hardy. 'Che two last men- 

 tioned had passed through five hard 

 "winters without the loss of a single 

 Dua. Beurre d'Araanlis also has 

 proved itself a very hardy tree. 



SUNFLOWER SEED. 

 Doctor Sturtevant, of the New York 

 Experimental Station, has been experi- 

 menting with sunflower seed, with the 

 following results : 



The station crop of 1883 occupied a 

 plot of 1-20 acre area, and was planted 

 four kernels in a hill, the hills forty- 

 two by forty-four inches apart, and was 

 cultivated during growth the same as 

 corn. The soil received at the i-ate of 

 400 pounds of superphosphate to the 

 acre. Planted May l<Sth, vegetated 

 May 31st, harvested in September, and 

 the seed beaten out and measured, and 

 weighed October 25th, the yield being 

 two and one-half bushels, or fifty-seven 

 and one-half pounds ; expressed in acre 

 yield, fifty bushels, or 1,150 pounds, 

 the seed thus weighing twenty- three 

 pounds per struck bushel. An inspec- 

 tion of the growing crop made it quite 

 evident that thicker planting would 

 have been productive of a larger yield. 



From not having facilities at the Sta- 

 tion for expressing the oil, we must be 

 content with the results of analysis. 

 Di\ S. M. Babcock found the seed to 

 contain 20. 52 per cent, of oil in the 

 air-dry seed. One hundred seed in air- 

 dry condition weighed 187. 7 grains, 

 and contained 49.1 per cent, of husk 

 and 50.9 per cent, of kernel. The 

 complete analysis is below : — 



The sun-flower crop, however, has 

 difficulties in the way of curing. As 

 the plant ripens late in the season, the 



