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water and pressure for Hooding 

 small areas may be obtained. The 

 water is distributed by means of 

 common drain tile, using sizes from 

 two to four inches in diameter ; the 

 larger for the main or distrilniting 

 tile and the smaller for branches. 

 The tiles are laid at a depth of about 

 a foot or fifteen inches below the sur- 

 face, the excavations being made by 

 a plow without much expense, and 

 the lines of tile are laid about ten 

 feet apart. When the water is 

 turned on, into the standpipe, it will 

 fill the pipes to their extremities, 

 which, of course, are closed, and a 

 portion of the water, constantly 

 escaping by the joints, will work its 

 way by capillary attraction toward 

 the surface of the soil. One acre is 

 about the extent which may be thus 

 worked under one system of pipes 

 and machinery. 



The Yellow Transparent. — Our 

 top grafts of this Russian have borne 

 some fruit with which we were much 

 pleased, except with the size which 

 was below medium. Its earliness 

 gives it every advantage in the 

 market, especially as the Early 

 Harvest is no longer to be depended 

 upon on account of the spot. Dr. 

 Hoskins, of Vermont, has had some 

 favorable experience with it, which 

 we find published in the Orchard and 

 Garden. He says : — " As to the 

 other apples of this family, the fruit 

 is very similar, when grown under 

 identical conditions, though I find 

 White Transparent smaller, and 

 better in quality than the others. 

 The whole family are more or less 

 subject to blight, attacking not only 

 the bark in the forks of the branches, 

 but the limbs, much like pear blight. 

 1 regard Thaler and Sultan as identi- 

 cal, and they are both destroyed by 

 blight in my grounds in a very few 

 years. Y.T. is much more resistant 

 to the disease, the majority of my 

 trees escaping it altogether ; but if 

 allowed to over-bear, even it is short- 

 lived, as compared with most 



American varieties. The trees should 

 have rich ground and surface cultiva- 

 tion ; and I find 12 feet apart in the 

 row wide enough, as they will not 

 often remain profitable after reaching 

 a size to meet at that distance. 

 While they do last, however, no apple 

 is more profitable. Even my culls 

 netted nearly Si. 00 per bushel last 

 year ; and trees three to five inches in 

 diameter gave from 4 to 6 bushels 

 of perfect fruit, sold mostly as they 

 ran at ^i per 100, which is a little 

 more than half a bushel, though of 

 select specimens 100 will make 

 nearly a bushel. They were all sold 

 in the home market, this being a 

 summer resort ; but Boston dealers 

 have told me that even lots of good 

 size would easil}- net Si. 00 per half 

 bushel crate in that city, as there is 

 no apple there ecjual to it in appear- 

 ance or quality at that season." 



The Crandall Currant. — Mr. L- 

 H. Bailey writes in the American 

 Garden, that he does not find any 

 trace of hybridization in the plants 

 of this currant, and regards it as a 

 simple variation of the Buffalo 

 currant. In his estimation it has 

 some decided merits, especially for 

 amateurs, promising a new and 

 valuable type of fruit for our gardens. 

 In jellies it is better than most other 

 currants and is good in pies or as 

 sauce. It needs to be eaten fresh, 

 because, after standing two or three 

 days, the berries become tough and 

 almost inedible. It is variable in 

 size and in period of ripening, but 

 may be easily gathered singly, like 

 {gooseberries and cherries. 



Oup Winter Meeting. 



The next annual and winter meet- 

 ing of our Association will be held in 

 the city of Windsor, during the 

 second week in December. 



The meeting will be ably support- 

 ed both bv local fruit growers and by 



