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disease. Crown Bob, White Smith, Sulphur Yellow, and Red 

 Champion — this lot will give variety enough for any family. 



Cherries. 

 Governor Wood, an American seedling of good flavor, beautiful 

 color, yellow with red cheeks, ripens early in June. Black Eagle, 

 the best black cherry, ripens first week in July. Napoleon Bigar- 

 leau, a very large and firm fruit, yellow^ and red and of a good 

 flavor. Black Tartarian, an old poi)ular variety, very productive, 

 flesh juicy and of a good flavor, rather apt to suffer from the rot, 

 ripens the middle of June. Downer's Late Red; fruit of medium 

 size, fine flavor and ver}'^ productive, the best red cherry ripens in 

 July ; for preserving, there has been none as yet. found to super- 

 sede the May Duke, it commences to ripen its fruit the beginning 

 of June and continues until July. 



Pears. 



Bartlett, Flemish Beauty, Bonne de Jersey, Shelden, Lawrence, 



Glout Morceau, Vicar of Winkfield, Urbaniste, Columbia, Du- 



chesse, Beurre Clairgeau and Beurre Deil; these are all well known 



popular favorites, and the fruit commands a good price in our 



markets. 



Culture of the Alantiius Tree. 



Mr. Wm. R. Prince, Flushing, L. I. — Some persons have striven 

 to raise an unjust prejudice against this tree, on account of the 

 unpleasant ador of the blossoms, and have referred thereto as 

 applicable to all ailanthus trees, whereas it applies only to the 

 female or seed-bearing trees, the male trees exhaling no odor 

 whatever. In planting, therefore, it is simply requisite to obtain 

 trees of the latter class. But few persons seem to be aware of 

 the fact that it is one of the most important trees in Japan for the 

 silk culture, and that its foliage furnishes food for a very large 

 species of silk worms, whose product is so extensive that all of 

 the poorer classes in Japan are clad with the silk it produces. 

 In France this tree is very extensively grown for the same object, 

 and its congenial silk worm has been obtained from Japan. A 

 few years ago I sent fifteen barrels of the seed to France to fill an 

 order from silk growers in that country. 



Black Ivnot in Cherry Trees. 

 Mrs. E. C. McClaughny, Deposit, N. Y. — I have often thought 

 of giving the Farmer's Club the benefit of my observations with 



