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The Plant Distribution. — 

 Owing to the ver}' rapid advance of 

 vegetation this Spring, it was found 

 impossible to fill the last orders re- 

 ceived with any prospect of giving 

 satisfaction. We therefore a?k those 

 who have not received their plants 

 this Spring to have the kindness to 

 wait until next Fall for them. The 

 same list will be continued for the 

 Summer, so that subscribers sending 

 in their names may still select from it. 



The Crandall Currant. — We 

 wish it to be plainly understood by 

 our readers that we do not endorse 

 anything that has been said in these 

 pages concerning this currant, and 

 that the writers are alone responsible 

 for the statements made. The Cran- 

 dall is quite a new thing, and as in 

 the case of all novelties we desire as 

 quickly as possible to test it on our 

 own grounds, and to receive the testi- 

 mony of planters from all quarters. 

 Our object is to defend the interests 

 of the growers of fruit, and not to 

 boom any nursery stock. Now, 

 while Mr. Summey's experience with 

 this currant seems to have been 

 favorable, the experience of some 

 horticulturists at Rochester, express- 

 ed to us personally, is adverse, to the 



effect that it is a poor bearer, and 

 that its peculiar odor is serious fault. 

 We await further testimony with 

 interest. 



The Newtown Pippin. — An 

 English correspondent of the Garden 

 and Forest writes in high praise of 

 the Newton Pippin, an apple which 

 we well know brings the highest 

 price in the English market, some- 

 times selling for as much as %j per 

 barrel. He says that in point of 

 flavor he considers it tHe best apple 

 in the world, and wonders that so 

 little is said of it in our journals, and 

 that we do not value it more highly 

 than we do. He does not know of 

 a single apple in either France or 

 England which can compare with it 

 in high flavor and lasting qualit}-. 



Now, as applegrowers, wecertainly 

 do wish to plant and grow only tlie 

 very best kinds, and we know that 

 this apple stands at the head of all 

 apples, but we have also long ago 

 found that it is a failure in the apple 

 regions of Ontario and New York on 

 account of the apple spot (Fusicla- 

 dium), to which it is particularly 

 subject. 



If, however, the use of hvposulphite 

 of soda or of copper solutions should 



