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have also been found feeding on this 

 aphis. 



Some of the more common remedies 

 for this pest are strong soap-suds or a 

 mixture of kerosene and water with 

 which the trees should be given a tho- 

 rough drenching. The latter mixture, 

 however, if too strong may slightly in- 

 jure the foliage, but will do no perma- 

 nent damage. Suffocation with tobacco 

 smoke has also been highly recom- 

 mended. — Prairie Farmer. 



SMILAX. 



Smilax makes a beautiful plant for 

 the window, if a strong young plant is 

 secured in the fall, placed in an eight to 

 ten inch pot, set in such a position that 

 a string on which to train it can be run 

 up one side of the window and across the 

 top. As soon as the young shoot is long 

 enough, twine it around the string to 

 give it a start, as it were, after which it 

 will rapidly grow and reach the top, 

 when it will have to be directed 4n its 

 course across the top of the window. Be 

 sure to get a young plant, as they do 

 much better than old ones, and when 

 growing vigorously, give plenty of 

 water ; keep the leaves free from dust, 

 and it will soon form one of the most 

 beautiful window ornaments which can 

 be imagined, After it has reached as 

 far as wanted, pinch off the end of the 

 shoot, which will induce fresh shoots to 

 start from the different joints, and at the 

 same time induce it into tiower sooner 

 than when allowed to grow at random. 

 During the time it is in flower the room 

 is filled with the sweetest odor, after 

 which comes the beautiful fruit, hanging 

 in clusters and remaining for weeks in 

 perfection. 



Many fail with smilax in windows, 

 but if they would attend to getting a 

 one-year old plant, then, good, porous 

 soil, and a string — not a wire, to run on, 



there is not much danger but it will 

 grow if attended with water sufficient 

 to keep the soil moist all the time, but 

 not in such quantities to produce satura- 

 tion of the soil. — The Prairie Farmer. 



THE CAROLINE RASPBERRY. 



In regard to the Caroline Raspberry, 

 I have tried it so thoroughly that I do 

 not hesitate to recommend it as one of 

 the best of raspberries. When the berry 

 begins to color it is a pale yellow which 

 turns to a pretty salmon color when ripe. 

 Among berries of its colour it is equalled 

 by none except the Brinckle, and it is 

 but little inferior to that old standard 

 when ripe. It is thoroughly hardy, a 

 very strong grower, and immensely pro- 

 ductiA^e. Its ability to bear long car- 

 riage has yet to be proved, but for a near 

 market its value is already established. 

 The amateur, at least, should accept the 

 Caroline as a 'boon — " Horticola " in 

 Rural New Yorker. 



[We have not found it to be high 

 flavored. — Ed.] 



A NATIVE AMERICAN PLUM. 



Golden Beauty. — Here we have a 

 most remarkable and valuable acquisi- 

 tion. It Is one of Onderdonk's seedlings, 

 and seems to be, from leaf and bloom, a 

 hybrid, between some large late Chick- 

 asaw of Wild Goose type and some fine 

 variety of Prunus Americana, as the leaf, 

 bloom, method, and time of fruiting re- 

 mind one of the Weaver Plum, but Chick- 

 asiiw blood is visible j ust as well. Young 

 twigs are yellow when mature, green 

 before ; the leaves are very large, of a 

 rich, light gi-een, with the glossy surface 

 of the Wild Goose, and hang on very 

 late. The growth is as free and smooth 

 as the Peach, with twigs as large ; the 

 fruitiige is astonishingly great ; Plums 

 are deep golden yellow, of size of best 

 Wild Groose, but orange-shaped, very 



