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ten thousand trees (or rather bushes), and 

 the products are shipped to every part of 

 the empire. In the cherry season, Vladimio 

 cherries are plenty and cheap in every 

 Russian city reached by railroads or water. 

 We are told that whole trains are loaded 

 with them for Siberia and the far north- 

 eastern cities of the plains. South of 

 Vladimio, but still near to the 50th par- 

 allel, where the thermometer reaches at 

 times 50 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit, 

 is grown the plum in quantities absolutely 

 immense. These plums vary in season 

 and color, but they are all of one race, 

 which seems indigenous to northern Asia. 

 Many of the varieties we met at Nishney 

 are equal to the best German prunes, 

 which they resemble in shape and texture 

 of flesh. The color is usually red, and 

 the suture at one side is peculiar to the 

 race. As we go south (or rather east of 

 the Volga), we reach the apple growing 

 districts, not because the soil or climate 

 are better than in Vladimio, but because 

 the people happened to drift in the early 

 ages in this direction. One of the large 

 orchardists who brings fruit here by the 

 barge load grows only four varieties 

 specially suited for the Nishney market 

 during August and the first week in Sep- 

 tembei . These varieties are (1) Borovetsky, 

 a large oblong variety with crimson stripes. 

 In quality and appearance it is superior to 

 Our Duchess. (2) Miron Krasnui, a.n early 

 variety now past its prime. It is showy, 

 mild in flavor, and much eaten from hand 

 by Russians, who do not like acid apples 

 except for cooking. (3) Titofka. — This is 

 not our Tetofskyy but it is a very large, 

 oblong, ridged, highly colored, and really 

 good variety. Many of the specimens 

 look so much like large specimens of 

 Benoni as to deceive the expert. The 

 flesh is pinkish white, somewhat coarse, 

 but breaking, tender, juicy, and pleasantly 

 sub-acid. This variety seems popular in 

 all parts of Europe. (4) Summer Aport. 

 In Russia are grown four Aports, three 

 of which are late autumn or winter. The 

 one now in market on the Volga in im- 

 mense quantity is known in Moscow as 

 Aport Oseniaii. It is large and highly 

 colored with splashes of pink and crimson . 

 It may always be known by its one-sided 

 stem and lip, something like Roman 

 Stem." 



PARIS GREEN FOR ROSE BUGS. 



I heard a member of the Western 

 New York Horticultural Society say 

 at the meeting at Rochester 

 last winter, that Paris green 

 could be used with safety on 

 grape vines, to protect them 

 from the ravages of rose bugs, 

 and it encouraged me to try it 

 Rose Bug. ^^ ^y. ^^^^^ ^^lis summer. I 



have about 150 newly planted vines 

 that were growing finely. They were 

 attacked by the rose bugs ; many of 

 them were nearly covered with them, 

 and were fast being destroyed. I 

 applied Paris green in water in the 

 same proportion that I use on potatoes 

 — about one teaspoonful to a pailful of 

 water. It cleaned the vines of bugs, 

 but a two days' rain washed ofi" the 

 poison, and we gave them a second 

 application, thoroughly drenching the 

 vines, and they are now free from bugs, 

 and I cannot see that they are at all 

 injured by the poison. I give this ex- 

 perience as rose bugs have proved a 

 great pest to grape vines in this State. 

 — C. D. S., Spencer, Mass. 



GRAPES, THEIR VALUE AND 

 CULTURE. 



The value of the grape, and the ease 

 with which it is cultivated, are two 

 points not yet so well understood by 

 American farmera as they should be. 

 No Fruit is more refreshing, and none 

 more healthful. There can be no doubt 

 that if grapes were grown and freely 

 used by every family in the land, the 

 avoidance of sickness and its attendant 

 loss of time and expenditure for medi- 

 cine, would many times compensate the 

 time and money expended in their 

 culture, saying nothing of the comfort 

 they would add to many a household. 

 But besides being among the fruits 

 most valued by the rich, no fruit is so 

 emphatically the poor man's fruit as the 



