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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



The Erie Blaekberpy. 



Mr. T. Greixer says in Rural New 

 Yorker : — 



I am quite certain the Erie is distinc^ 

 from the Lawton, but greatly doubt whether 

 it is very much better. It is the same strong 

 grower, and, if anything, more productive. 

 The berry differs but little in quality, but is 

 plumper or rounder in shape. The cane is 

 exceedingly thorny, apparently healthy and 

 hardy in New Jersey. Its greatest fault is 

 one which it has in common with the Law- 

 ton, perhaps even in an intensified degree, 

 namely, that of turning red and appearing 

 stale or in the first stages of decay, very 

 soon after being picked. A few hours' stand- 

 ing renders freshly-plucked, luscious fruit 

 in the baskets so exceedingly unattractive 

 as to be unfit for sale, and I have known 

 the greater part of a crop left on the bushes 

 to go to waste merely on account of the un- 

 willingness of buyers to accept the ill-looking 

 stuff. 



Quinces Useful and Ornamental. 



If I should plant an orchard I 

 would , set mostly the Orange 

 variety, with, perhaps, one-fourth 

 Meech's Prolific, and one or two 

 Champion. The latter is quite late 

 in ripening, and the fruit can be kept 

 until New Year's. Rea's Mammoth 

 does not yield any more or nicer fruit 

 than the Orange, as far as I can 

 learn. I have not tried the Meech, 

 but from what I can learn it is a very 

 fine strain of the Orange, and by 

 proper pruning and cultivation can 

 be grown to the highest perfection 

 possible Avith this fruit. — Vick's 

 Mainazine. 



The JunebePPy ( AmeJancMer ). 



In my notes in 1882 I spoke of 

 several dwarf varieties in the hands 

 of Germans in the Western States. 

 I have fruited four varieties, received 

 from Iowa Agricultural College. 

 Last summer the little bushes, from 



nine inches to two feet in height, 

 bore an abundant crop of berries, the 

 size of the largest Saguenay blue- 

 berries, and richer in flavor. I think 

 Grinnell was the finest in flavor. 

 Green County and Gardener being 

 also good fruits. The Alpinum of 

 Mexico, though quite hardy, does 

 not bear as large or as fine a flavored 

 berry. — Chas. Gibb, Montreal. 



Eaply Stpawbeppies. 



At a recent strawberry meeting 

 the point was made that by heavily 

 summer mulching a late variet}' the 

 season can be prolonged a week. 

 The converse of this proposition is 

 true, and, by not mulching early 

 varieties the greatest earliness can 

 be obtained. I am creditably infrom- 

 ed that this fact is to be made use of 

 the coming season to boom a new 

 variety for earliness. Grown beside 

 the May King, the latter heavily 

 mulched, a variety, no earlier than 

 that early variety, could be adver- 

 tised as a week earlier, and inexperi- 

 enced growers induced to buy plants 

 without suspecting the trick made 

 use of to sell them.^ — L. B. Pierce, 

 in Ohio Farmer. 



Liquid Gpafting Wax. 



For painting the wounds made in 

 pruning trees and for similar pur- 

 poses this is one of the best, and 

 may be made by melting one pound 

 of resin over a gentle fire and stir- 

 ring in one ounce of beef tallow. 

 When the mixture, after being re- 

 moved from the fire, has cooled off" 

 somewhat, eight ounces of alcohol 

 are to be added to it. When cool 

 put it in bottles or cans and keep 

 well closed. 



