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ihp: CANADIAX HORTICULTL'KIST. 



Our list of varieties included twenty 

 named samples : 100 seeds of each 

 were planted in boxes, April 11th 

 and 12th, and placed in a cold frame, 

 where they wei'e covered during 

 severe weather. On July 5th thirty 

 of these plants were set in a trench, 

 one foot deep, well manured at the bot- 

 tom with thorouglily-rotted horse-ma- 

 nure, and thirt}' plants were planted 

 adjacent upon the level without special 

 manuring. 



The first data noted was that the 

 varieties of celery required from twenty- 

 six to twenty-eight days to vegetate 

 their seeds, and 100 seeds produced 

 upon the average fifty-seven plants, tlie 

 variation between varieties being 16 

 per cent, of vegetation for Seymour's 

 Solid Red, and 81 per cent, for Giant 

 White Solid. Averaging our results 

 obtained in seventeen samples in which 

 the varieties from the two rows are 

 sspai~ately noted, we find that, omitting 

 fractions, plants grown under level 

 culture averaged 177 pounds per hun- 

 dred plants, while those under trench 

 culture avtu-aged 178 pounds per hun- 

 dred plants. The length of the bleach- 

 ed stems was rather greater and the 

 suckers were more numerous upon the 

 plants grown in the trenches, but on 

 the other hand, the bases of the stems 

 were more often split and deformed 

 than occurred in the plants grown upon 

 the level. It appears, therefore, from 

 this trial that the trench culture yield- 

 ed no advantage for tlie increased labor 

 involved. 



E. i.EWis Stirtevant, Director. 



The Young Naturalist, devoted to 

 natural histoi-y and the intei'ests of col- 

 lectors, is pu})lished monthly at Gales- 

 burgh, Illinois, at fifty cents a year. 

 "We believe it is the only publication of 

 the kind and will be appreciated by 

 collectoi's in natural history. 



STEVENS' EAEERIPE PEACH. 



Mr. S. Willard, of Geneva, N, Y., 

 states that this valuable peacli was 

 called to his attention by a letter writ- 

 ten by the venerable Chas. Downing, 

 in which he spoke of it in the very 

 highest terms as a profitable mai'ket 

 variety, saying that " the peach grow- 

 ers a few miles- north of here received 

 the most money last season (1881) 

 from Stevens' Late Rareripe. Mr. 

 Allen Rhodes sold of this last kind one 

 basket for 38, two baskets at $7 50 

 each, eleven baskets at $7 each. Each 

 basket contained fourteen qua)"ts. This 

 Steven.s' Rareripe is a new name to me, 

 but Mr. Rhodes says he has grown it 

 ten years." 



The tree is a very vigorous grow«M-, 

 comes into beai'ing the second season 

 after transplanting and yields immense 

 crops. It has proved its ability to re- 

 sist severe cold and fruit freely "' oft" 

 years" wlien most other varieties yield 

 no fi-uit. 



The fruit in ajipearance somewhat 

 resembles an enlarged and remarkably 

 high colored Old Mixon Free, far sur- 

 passing in beauty any painted picture. 

 In flavor as well as in appearance it is 

 superb. It begins to ripen with the 

 last of the Late Crawfords, and con- 

 tinues from three to four weeks. Fi-ee- 

 stone, white fleshed, juicy and high 

 flavored. 



L. I. Hasbrouck, of Ulster county, 

 N. Y., says: " My neighbor, Mr. Allen 

 Rhodes, has some trees of the Stevens' 

 Rareripe Peach. In 1881 they sold as 

 high as $8 a basket in West Washing- 

 ton Market, New York. The baskets 

 were small. They are the finest peaches 

 I ever saw and will sell at good paying 

 prices even if there should be a glut in 

 the market." 



James DeGraff'. of Ulster county, 

 says : " I am growing the Stevens' 

 Rareripe and think more of it than any 

 other peach. I sold some at $6 a 



