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seedling which is thouglit to be of great 

 value as a market variety, being large, 

 showy, and keeping until Maich ; York 

 Stripe A})ple, a popular variety in 

 soutiiern Pennsylvania ; Triumph of 

 Cumberland Cherry, which originated 

 in Cumberland County, and said to be 

 of fine delicious flavor, a prolific bearer 

 and to rank with the best. It contains 

 an essay on *' The management of an 

 orchard," on '* Horticulture for plea- 

 sure," on " Raising seedling fruits," 

 on " Our winged friends," on *' Horti- 

 cultural fertilizers," " Fruits and vege- 

 tables," &c. Mr. E.B. Engle, Chambers- 

 burg, Penn., is the obliging Secretary, 

 to whom those interested can apply for 

 a copy if they wish, enclosing stamps 

 to pay postage. 



The Young Scientist enters upon 

 its sixth volume. It is published at 49 

 Maiden Lane, New York, at one dollar 

 per year, and is a praiseworthy effort 

 to interest young people in something 

 more profitable than the flashy and 

 sensational stories with which our 

 young people are now so abundantly 

 supplied. It is very gratifying to see 

 it enter upon its sixth year with such 

 hopeful courage, materially enlar^ifed in 

 size, more than doubled, and well illus- 

 trated. It is also a hopeful sign of the 

 times that such a journal, without any 

 " stories " whatever, is sufficiently 

 appreciated to warrant increased ex- 

 penditure of time and money in its 

 monthly preparation. 



Ottawa Field Naturalist's Club. 

 We are indebted to Lt.-Col. Wm. White 

 for a copy of the second issue of the 

 transactions of this Club. It contains 

 valuable papers on subjects connected 

 with the researches of the naturalist, 

 among the«e we notice an interesting 

 one on " Meteors and Meteorites," by 

 Mr. H. B Small ; one on " Some 

 Coleoptera injurious to our pines," by 

 Mr. W. Hague Harrington ; another 



on the "Liliacse," by Lt.-Col. Wm. 

 White ; a synopsis of a lecture by Prof. 

 J. Macoun, F.L.S., on "the capabili- 

 ties of the Prairie Lands of the great 

 Nortwest, as shewn by their Fauna and 

 Flora." The concluding paper, illus- 

 trated by a well executed plate, is a 

 " description of a new species of 

 Porocrinus," by James Grant, M.D., 

 which was taken from the Trenton 

 limestone at Belleville. 



Vick'p Illustrated Monthly maga- 

 zine continues to illumine our table 

 with its bright pictures and interesting 

 articles on flowers and their culture. 

 The initial number of the sixth volume 

 is as delightful as any that have gone 

 before, and we particularly commend 

 the article on " Flowers for the Schools" 

 to the consideration of our Boards of 

 Public School Trustees, especially in 

 our rural school districts. If there be 

 one place more than another that 

 should wear a bright and cheerful 

 aspect, it is the school grounds; and 

 yet, so far as the writer's observation 

 extends, the school yards in Ontario are 

 the most dreary, forsaken and cheerless 

 enclosures to be found anywhere. We 

 almost forgot to say that the magazine 

 is published by James Vick, Rochester, 

 N.Y., at 11.25 per year. 



The Farmer's Annual Hand-Book, 

 for 1883, published by D. Apj.leton & 

 Co., 5 Bond Street, New York, is a 

 most convenient and useful little diary 

 for the year, containing also many 

 things useful to the farmer, such as 

 tables of the cubic contents of round 

 sticks, rules for finding the number of 

 tons of hay in a mow, the number of 

 bushels of com in a crib, &c. ; the aver- 

 age purity and vitality of some seeds as 

 found in market, valuation of commer- 

 cial fertilizers, average composition of 

 fertilizing materials, feeding of cattle, 

 composition of feeding stuffs, and the 

 digestibility of feeding stuffs, «fec. 



