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what is said about them by others who live in similar surroundings, 

 and then you will be prepared to plant intelligently. 



One thing more, twenty varieties of apples are not wanted by any 

 one who is growing fruit for profit. The planting of a great many 

 varieties is a very common error, but the wise man will confine his 

 plantation to a few sorts. One variety of early ripening apples for 

 summer use is quite sufficient, another to follow, and so arranged as to 

 keep up a succession through the autumn, Aviuter and spring is all that 

 is wanted, and if one is planting for market a multiplicity of kinds is 

 only a nuisance. In the climate of that part of Ontario where the 

 peach will thrive, the following varieties will give a continued 

 succession, namely: Early Harvest, Sweet Bough, Duchess of Olden- 

 burg, Gravenstein, Blenheim Orange, Fameuse, Eibston Pippin, R. I. 

 Greening, E. Spitzenburgh, Talman Sweet, Swayzie Pomme Grise and 

 Eoxbury Russet. This list might not suit the preferences of many, 

 who can alter it to their liking, but is given to shew that about a 

 dozen varieties is all that is needed to keep one's table well supplied 

 with this fruit throughout its season; and they will, if judiciously 

 selected, give far more satisfaction than any orchard of even twenty 

 sorts, to say nothing of orchards embracing the entire catalogue. 



SMOKING OUT THE CURCULIO. 



In some of the discussions at meetings of tlie Fruit Growers' 

 Association mention has been made of this method of getting rid of the 

 depredations of this troublesome insect, and thereby securing a crop of 

 plums. In the July number of Moore's Rural L^fe, a new and very 

 beautiful as well as instructive monthly, devoted to suburban, village 

 and country homes, published at' 34 I'ark Row, New York, for only 

 $1.50 a year, we find the experience of Dr. Kuffman, of Iowa City, 

 with this method. In the season of 1874 he put about a quart of coal- 

 tar, procured from the gas works, into a long-handled stew-pan, which 

 he ignited with the lielp of a few shavings. Carrying this under his 

 plum trees he filled every part of the tree with the dense smoke, which 

 evidently had the effect of causing every insect, even worms and 

 spiders, to leave the trees. This smoking operation he repeated three 

 or four times a week, and if rain washed off the smudge, he immediately 

 smoked the trees again. He continued this proceeding until near the 



