TfiB CAiTADIAN HOBTICULTUEIST. 



non ball, and being petrified, is equally 

 as heavy. The collection of curiosities 

 brought down from the Arctic by the Cor- 

 win is, perhaps, the most interesting of 

 any brought to San Francisco. 



A NEW GARDEN IMPLEMENT. 

 Mr. Oren Stoddard, of Busti, N. Y., 

 has patented a combined hand seed plant- 

 er and fertilizer distributer, which has a 

 very perfect action and separates the fer- 

 tilizer from the seed in the ground. In 

 this device, a central box in which phos- 

 phate or other fine fertilizer is placed has 

 combined with it outer side boxes for re- 

 ception of the corn or other seed. Fol- 

 lowers terminating in or connected with a 

 handle above, serve, by a suitable con- 

 struction of the interior of the boxes, to 

 discharge, as they are thrust downward, 

 the fertilizer and seed in measured quan- 

 tities into the gMpnd, the same passing 

 out through or oetween elastic plates, 

 which form the necessary openings in the 

 soil, while the bottom of the boxes act as 

 a stop to insure the seed being planted at 

 a uniform depth. By this construction 

 the seed for each hill will be divided, and 

 the fertilizer will be deposited in the space 

 between the parts of the hill without 

 being in contact with the seed, so that 

 the seed will not be injured or killed by 

 the fertilizer. Connected with the fer- 

 tilizer follower are levers, having attached 

 covering plates which, as said follower is 

 drawn upward, force the soil into the 

 openings in which the seed and fertilizer 

 have been deposited, and cover the seed. 

 — Scientific American. 



THE TOLMAN- CHAMPION-BEACONS- 

 FIELD GRAPE. 

 This grape originated within two miles 

 of where 1 now sit writing, some twelve or 

 fifteen years ago, and was first named 

 the Tolman. After having proved worth- 

 less under that name, certain Rochester 

 parties bought plants of Wm. Day, of Syra- 

 cuse, and re-named it' the Champion, and 

 by a series of misrepresentations they have 

 succeeded in scattering it broadcast over 

 the country. It has been especially re- 

 commended for the latitude of Canada, 

 but I am pleased to read that one Canada 



gentleman, at the meeting in Boston, 

 reported that it could not be sold at one 

 cent per pound in the streets of Montreal. 



Some of our Canada brethem — evidently 

 encouraged by the succees of our Rochester 

 friends — have again re-named it, and this 

 time it is the Beaconsfield. What success 

 it will have under this last name remains to 

 be seen, but name it as you will, it will still 

 remain a worthless thing. There have 

 been more lies told about this grape than 

 about any other fruit that has been offer- 

 ed to the public in the last twenty years, 

 and it is now time that these false state- 

 ments should be discontinued. 



It is true that a very few grape-growers 

 have made it pay, by selling it to people 

 who had not yet learned its worthlessness, 

 but this was only a transient profit. A 

 few years ago this grape sold in our mar- 

 ket at fifteen cents per pound wholesale, 

 but from year to year the price declined, 

 and this season the growers of it were 

 peddling the fruit from house to house at 

 two and three cents per pound. Now 

 they find themselves burdened with vines 

 that are practically good for nothing. 

 When will people learn that it pays best, 

 in the long run, to grow good fruit ? If I 

 have been rather severe upon this subject 

 it is because, in my opinion, plain talk 

 is best in this particular case. — Nelson 

 RiTTER, in Country Gentleman. 



CANKER WORMS. 



This is how I got rid of them on four 

 hundred apple trees : I took one barrel 

 and a half of tar, warmed it in a pail with 

 half rain-water, and applied it at about 

 four o'clock in the afternoon with a large 

 paint brush. I made a ring around the 

 body of the tree, about half , way up to the 

 limbs, and repeated it every day for 31 

 days, having commenced on the 3rd of 

 April. 



The habits of these destructive woims 

 are peculiar. The miller that lays the egg 

 for the worm commences coming out of 

 the ground as soon as it begins to thaw in 

 the spring, and immediately crawls up the 

 tree and lays its eggs in and on the buds, 

 which hatch as soon as the tree begins to 

 leaf, when its work begins. These mil- 

 lers are hardly ever seen in the day-time, 

 and they never climb the tree except at 



