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scription of those insects that tend to 

 keep in check these depredators, so that 

 the fruit-grower may be able to recog- 

 nize his friends and tenderly spare 

 them, while he destroys without mercy 

 those that destroy his crops. No work 

 covering this ground has hitherto ap- 

 peared, and it will be found exceedingly 

 convenient to have the information 

 upon these subjects placed together in 

 convenient form, where the matter is 

 so arranged that the information can 

 be obtained with the least possible con- 

 sumption of time. Hitherto the infor- 

 mation contained in this book, if it has 

 existed at all, has been scattered through 

 numberless volumes of reports, monthly 

 magazines and public documents, where 

 they were com[)aratively hidden froui 

 the person seeking information. The 

 thanks of the fruit-growing public are 

 due to Mr. Saunders for the pains he 

 has taken in thus bringing together in 

 compenduous form information so very 

 desirable, and yet for the reasons be- 

 fore stated, almost entirely unobtain- 

 able. Mr. Saunders possesses, in an 

 eminent degree, the qualification requi- 

 site for the production of such a work, 

 having made insects a study for more 

 than a quarter of a century, and that 

 specially with a view to their relation to 

 our fruit-growing interests. Himself a 

 fruit-grower, and President of our Fruit- 

 Grower's Association, he has taken a 

 deep interest in all that affects fruit 

 production. Much of the information 

 contained in this work is the result of 

 his own personal observation and ex- 

 perience, and our fruit-growers can 

 rely most implicitly on every statement 

 which the work contains. Of the book 

 it is but just to say that it is printed 

 in clear type, on beautiful paper, and 

 the cuts are executed in the most per- 

 fect manner. Nothing has been left 

 undone to make it a complete compen- 

 dium of our knowledge of the subject 

 of which it treats, worthy of being 



placed in the hands of every person in- 

 terested in these matters. The author 

 has dedicated it to the fruit-growers of 

 America, in the earnest hope that it 

 may be of practical use to them in their 

 warfare with destructive insects in 

 which they are constantly engaged. 

 We confidently commend the book to 

 every grower of fruit as an indispen- 

 sable companion. 



Report on Russian Fruits. — Mr. 

 Charles Gibb, of Abbotsford, Quebec, 

 visited Russia last summer with the 

 view of ascertaining what varieties 

 grown in the more northern portion of 

 that country are of sufficient value to 

 be introduced into the more northern 

 portion of Canada. Since his return 

 he has embodied his observations in a 

 report, for a copy of which we are in- 

 debted to him. He states that the 

 names of fruits in Russia are hopelessly 

 confounded, so that it is very difficult 

 to be certain as to the variety by the 

 name given to it in different parts of 

 the country. He states that the lead- 

 ing apple of the Volga is the Anis, 

 which is highly prized and very largely 

 grown. It seems to be capable of en- 

 during a climate of 58° below zero, 

 that in latitude 55 there are twelve 

 villages, where the peasant proprietors 

 engage entirely in apple growing, and 

 that the product of these villages in a 

 good season amounts to fifty thousand 

 dollars. This is the coldest orchard 

 region known, and the Anis is their 

 hardiest tree. This Anis apple seems 

 to comprise a number of varieties, one 

 spoken of as the pink colored variety, 

 another as the Blue Anis. The lead- 

 ing apple of the Russian Steppes is 

 Aiitonovka. In the climate of Toula, 

 latitude 54, some 480 miles further 

 north than the city of Quebec, it is 

 considered their hardiest apple as well 

 as the most productive. It certainly 

 is a most productive tree, sometimes 

 yielding nearly half a ton of fruit. 



