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ful if you would give me information how to preserve fruit by the new method of processed 

 water. Also any printed matter on fruit culture with which you can supply me, will be 

 received with pleasure. I would also like information on the best way of sun-drying of 

 fruits, and also of sulphuring fruits which have been sun-dried, as I prefer this latter to 

 evaporated fruit. I would like to know how^ best to cultivate and prune fruit trees and 

 vines. All information, whether by letter or in books, will be gladly received. Do you 

 know a good method of preserving onions ; wliat varieties are best ? 1 cannot get seed to 

 do well here. 1 am giving close attention to onion culture, but cannot succeed with them. 



T. RHODE.S, Kokstady Griquland East, South Africa. 



Sir, — 1 see bj' a late number of the Horticulturist that spent hops are of little 

 value. In " Henderson's Gardening for Profit," he says he considers them of double the 

 value, load for load, of stable manure. G. 



BOOKS. 



"The Strike at Starkn.s" is a prize story from Indiana, published by the American 

 Humane Society. It is a sequel to " Black Beauty," and is intended to point out some of 

 the mistaken ideas held by men about the i-elationship between them and the lower animals. 

 The author of the book thinks that man should rule over the lower animals in the same 

 spirit that God rules over us, and the book shows what would follow if the support and 

 assistance given us by the lower animals and birds should be withdrawn, and they should 

 go on a strike. 



Autobiographical Sketches and Personal Recollections, by George T. Angell, 

 President of the American Humane Education Society, 1 9 M ilk St. , Boston. All publica- 

 tions of this Society are made at a very low rate, and full information concerning them 

 may be had from Dr. Angell. 



Annual Report of the Nebraska State Horticultural Society for the year 

 1893, containing the proceedings of the Summer Meeting held at Nebraska city, June, 



1 892, and of the Annual Meeting held at Lincoln, January, 1 893. Frederick W. Taylor, 

 Secretary. 



Transactions of the Illinois State Horticultural Society for the year 1893, 

 being the proceedings of the Thirty -eighth Annual Meeting held at Springfield, December, 



1893. Henry M. Dunlap, Secretary, Savoy, 111. 



REPORTS. 



Report of Chemist, Frank P. Shutt, M.A., 1893. Central Experimental Farm, 

 Ottawa. 



" Minnesota Horticulturist." The Annual Report in form of a Monthly Magazine. 

 Edited by A. W. Latham, Secretary, Minneapolis, Minn. 



CATALOGUES. 



Bruce's Catalogue of Seeds for 1894. John A. Bruce & Co., Seed Merchants, Ham- 

 ilton, Ont. Established 1850. Catalo(jue of American Seeds for 1894. D. Landreth & 

 Sond, 21 and 23 S. Sixth St., Philadelphia, Pa. Strawberry Catalogue, Wholesale 

 Price List, 1894 ; Cleveland Nursery, Rio Vista, Virginia. Crawford's Catalogue of 

 Strawberries ; M. Crawford, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Freeman's Fertilizers for 1894 ; 

 W. A. Freeman, Hamilton, Ont. Vilmouin, Andrieux & Cie., Marchands, Grainers, 4 

 Quai de la Megesserie, Paris. Catalogue General de Graines, Fraisiers, Ognons a Fleurs, 

 etc. A. G. Hull & Sons Catalogue of Trees, Plants and Vines. Nurseries, St. Catharines, 

 Ont. E. W. Reid, Bridgeport, O. ; introducers of tlie famous Timbrell Stiiiwberry. 

 Lovett's Guide to Fruit Culture, Spring 1894. .1. T. Loveljt, Little Silver, N. J. 

 Contains numerous novelties, several colored plates, full of illustrations; free on applica- 

 tion. Burpee's Farm Annual, 1894. VV. Altee Burpee & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. Colored 

 plates, numerous illustrations. \Veb.ster Bros.' lk>ok of C'anadian Plants for Canadian 

 People, 1894. Hamilton, Ont. 



