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down any further, and I pulled oil" all the 

 blighted leaves, hut I s.'c it is gone uj) and 

 ills leaves are turned black above. I hardly 

 think the blighted branches will survive, as 

 the bark seemed to be blistered anil turned 

 black and withered. 



The Flemish Beauty seems to be most 

 nllecled ; there is a little on '.he Bartlell and 

 .Manning's Elizabeth. 



The bark on the stock of my standard pear 

 tree for some years seemed to have died and 

 rotted on the south-west side. What couKl 

 have been the cause of it ? 



Our grain crops are mostly good. The 

 grain aphis was rather bad in the fall wheat, 

 and the midge in the bald varieties of spring 

 wheat. On low land the peas are not very 

 good. 



My son, S. E. Mick, of Paris, was at 

 Grimsby Park last week, and in writing to me 

 he described a berry that is growing wild on 

 the side of the mountain, and asked ine if I 

 knew what it was. He siys it is something 

 like a red raspberry, the blossom something 

 like the Sweet Briar, and leaves similar to a 

 grape. What is the plant ? 



I see the English sparrow is getting more 

 numerous. They are pretty thick in the wheat 

 fields. — W,\i/rEK Hick, Goderich, Aug. /y, 

 1889. 



Note uy Editor. — The plant described so 

 clearly by your son is the Purple-Flowering 

 raspberry \Riibus odoratus), and is very 

 common in the Niagara district.] 



Representatives from Michigan. 



Sir, — The annual meeting of our society is 

 hxed by our constitution for the week preced- 

 ing your winter meeting at Windsor ; (ist 

 Wednesday in December), and I reckon con- 

 fidently on the appointment at that time, of a 

 strong delegation to represent our society at 

 your gathering. — T. I. Lyon, President, 

 South Haven, Alich., Aug. ig, i88g. 



Brunswick is extremely light. A great many 

 trees have died or are nearly gone, and this 

 summer's drought will also diminish ihe 

 number of barrels of fruit. The late spring 

 frost destroyed the huckleberry blossoms, and 

 raspberry bushes died for want of rain, but 

 gooseberries v/ere a fair crop. Plums very 

 scarce. — N. hvuvKE, Sliejield Acadef/iy, //. B., 

 Au^^'. 14, i88g. 



Fruit in New Bpunswick. 



Sir, — I have had fine crops from Fay's 

 Prolific Currant. Moore's Early Grape does 

 not ripen with me. The apple crop in New 



The Junebeppy. 



Sir, — In the August number of your maga- 

 zine, I notice mention made of the Juneberry. 

 This fruit attracted my attention in 1^(73, and 

 by gold fortune I happened to secure a few 

 plants from a friend anil neighbor in Kansas, 

 who had brought his old plants from Illinois. 

 The plants from Illinois were originally laken 

 from the woods in the mountains of Penn- 

 sylvania. This is the correct history of the 

 variety which I named and introduced as 

 " .Success " about ten years ago. Mr. J. T. 

 Lovett, of Little Silver, New Jersey, and 

 several others hive been buying plants from 

 me for several years past. This year I have 

 sold to Mr. Lovett my entire stock, (except a 

 few plants kept for the fruit, on my farm near 

 Geneva, Kansas. This variety is dwarf in its 

 habits of growth, but the berries are very large 

 and delicious. They are in my opinion, the 

 bsst I have ever seen. Other v.irieties pro- 

 cured from other sources have all proven of 

 less value every way. Vou are quite mistaken 

 in saying that the frui; can be propagated by 

 cuttings ; at least they have invariably failed 

 with me. There is no doubt that plants could 

 be propagated by grafting, but the only practi- 

 cal way which I have found, is to take up the 

 suckers from around the old bearing plants. All 

 attempts to cultivate thcsjieciesof Amelanchier, 

 which is commonly found in our forest as a 

 small tree have not resulted profitably, but the 

 dwarf kinds are generally prized verv highly. — 

 II. E. Van Deman, Pomologist, Division of 

 Pomology, Washington, D.C., Aug. 77, i8Sg. 



Note by EnrrOK. — In England the method 

 of propagating the Juneberry and other trees 

 by cuttings is frecjuently employed with suc- 

 cess, though of course cuttings of any kind 

 will succeed much more easily in that moist 

 climate than with us. 



OUR FRUIT MARKETS. 



The Prospect for Apple Gpowcps. 



Ik the quantity of apples in inir 

 orehards in Ontario is small and the 

 quality poor, there is, at least, some 



satisfaction in the prospect of good 

 prices : and after the sad experience of 

 last year we shall consider it in no 

 way unfair to take from consumers as 



